Based on real jobs posted on our platform, the average weekly salary of all travel RNs combined was $2,122 on March 5, 2025. During the same period, staff RNs earned an average of $43.36 per hour.

This story is part of CNBC Make It's Millennial Money series, which details how people around the world earn, spend and save their money. In 2020, while working as a staff nurse at a hospital in ...

Travel nursing took off during the COVID-19 pandemic and it has continued to grow. In 2020, Staffing Industry Analysts reported that travel nurse staffing demand jumped 35%. What used to make up just ...