Travel Psych Nurse Pay in North Carolina

The median advertised pay for a travel Psych (psychiatric) contract in North Carolina is $1,662 per week, with the middle half between $1,662 and $1,662. Measured across 1 active travel Psych contracts in North Carolina at 1 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.

Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home. With only 1 open contract in North Carolina, treat that median as an indication rather than a rate: the contracts below are the useful part of this page.

That is 21 percent under the $2,099 national median for travel Psych contracts.

North Carolina 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.

Where every open Psych contract falls

Weekly rateOpen contracts
$1,600 to $1,6500
$1,650 to $1,7001
$1,700 to $1,7500
$1,750 to $1,8000
$1,800 to $1,8500
$1,850 to $1,9000

All 1 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.

North Carolina has the 31th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 6 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 19 percent under, while goods sit 3 percent under and services 2 percent under. 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.

Open Psych contracts in North Carolina

Browse the board for current Psych assignments in North Carolina.

Psych pay in other states

All 29 states with Psych openings

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Common questions

How much does a travel Psych nurse make in North Carolina?
The median advertised pay for a travel Psych contract in North Carolina is $1,662 a week, with the middle half of contracts between $1,662 and $1,662. Measured across 1 active travel Psych contracts in North Carolina at 1 facilities, as of 2026-09-15. These are advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends, not take-home.
Where does this Psych pay figure come from?
From the travel contracts currently posted on CircleRN, not from an industry survey or an estimate. No federal source publishes pay by nursing specialty: the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports registered nurses as a single occupation, so there is no official median for an ICU or a labor and delivery nurse. We publish the median rather than the average because one crisis-rate assignment moves an average enough to misrepresent the market.