The median advertised pay for a travel Oncology contract in Massachusetts is $2,733 per week, with the middle half between $2,293 and $3,039. Measured across 13 active travel Oncology contracts in Massachusetts at 9 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 15 percent over the $2,378 national median for travel Oncology contracts.
Massachusetts has enacted the Nurse Licensure Compact but has not implemented it, so a multistate license does not cover you here yet. You need a Massachusetts license. The compact state list explains which states issue one.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| $2,100 to $2,250 | 3 |
| $2,250 to $2,400 | 1 |
| $2,400 to $2,550 | 0 |
| $2,550 to $2,700 | 2 |
| $2,700 to $2,850 | 1 |
| $2,850 to $3,000 | 2 |
| $3,000 and up | 4 |
All 13 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Massachusetts has the 7th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 6 percent over the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 28 percent over, while goods sit 1 percent under and services 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boston | 8 | $2,800 | $2,600/mo |
| Cambridge | 2 | $2,103 | $3,270/mo |
| Milford | 1 | $3,039 | $1,640/mo |
| Northampton | 1 | $3,058 | $1,540/mo |
| Salem | 1 | $2,152 | $2,140/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.
Browse the board for current Oncology assignments in Massachusetts.
Drawn from the postings that state a requirement, which is not all of them, so each figure carries the number it was measured from. Your recruiter confirms the specifics for a given contract before submission.
All 27 states with Oncology openings