The median advertised pay for a travel NICU (neonatal intensive care unit) contract in New Hampshire is $2,939 per week, with the middle half between $2,812 and $2,956. Measured across 4 active travel NICU contracts in New Hampshire at 2 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home. With only 4 open contracts in New Hampshire, treat that median as an indication rather than a rate: the contracts below are the useful part of this page.
That is 17 percent over the $2,509 national median for travel NICU contracts.
New Hampshire is a Nurse Licensure Compact state, so an active multistate license covers you here. A single-state license from elsewhere does not. The compact state list explains which states issue one.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| Under $2,500 | 1 |
| $2,500 to $2,600 | 0 |
| $2,600 to $2,700 | 0 |
| $2,700 to $2,800 | 0 |
| $2,800 to $2,900 | 0 |
| $2,900 to $3,000 | 3 |
| $3,000 to $3,100 | 0 |
All 4 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
New Hampshire has the 9th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 4 percent over the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 15 percent over, while goods sit 1 percent under and services 4 percent over. That matters more than the headline number, because housing is the part a tax-free stipend is meant to cover and the rest comes out of taxed wages.
| Metro | Open contracts | Median weekly | Rent, 1 bed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Concord | 3 | $2,944 | $1,270/mo |
| Lebanon | 1 | $2,444 | $1,550/mo |
Rent is the one-bedroom Fair Market Rent HUD publishes for that metro, which is what a housing stipend is trying to cover. The open-contract count beside each metro is the sample its median rests on, and outside the largest markets that sample is small: a median over one or two contracts is a single posting's rate rather than a market rate, so read the count first.
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