The median advertised pay for a travel PACU (post-anesthesia care unit) contract in New Hampshire is $2,428 per week, with the middle half between $2,342 and $2,545. Measured across 6 active travel PACU 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 6 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 3 percent over the $2,353 national median for travel PACU 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 |
|---|---|
| $2,300 to $2,350 | 2 |
| $2,350 to $2,400 | 1 |
| $2,400 to $2,450 | 0 |
| $2,450 to $2,500 | 1 |
| $2,500 to $2,550 | 0 |
| $2,550 to $2,600 | 2 |
All 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lebanon | 4 | $2,449 | $1,550/mo |
| Nashua | 2 | $2,428 | $1,540/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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