The median advertised pay for a travel Pediatrics contract in Massachusetts is $2,423 per week, with the middle half between $2,408 and $2,439. Measured across 2 active travel Pediatrics contracts in Massachusetts at 2 facilities, as of 2026-10-30.
Advertised weekly totals before tax, usually including tax-free stipends; for almost all postings the top of an advertised range. Not take-home. With only 2 open contracts in Massachusetts, treat that median as an indication rather than a rate: the contracts below are the useful part of this page.
That is 4 percent over the $2,321 national median for travel Pediatrics 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, and the compact checker tells you whether yours covers you here.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| $2,300 to $2,350 | 0 |
| $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 | 0 |
All 2 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 | 1 | $2,392 | $2,600/mo |
| Pittsfield | 1 | $2,454 | $1,285/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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