Travel Nursing Blog

Everything you need to know about travel nursing including finding travel nursing companies, negotiating pay, taxes, travel nursing jobs, and more.

Best Travel Nursing Companies 2022

The Best Travel Nursing Companies 2022

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The best travel nursing companies for 2022 are here! To determine our list, we evaluated over 380 travel nursing agencies by aggregating over 108,000 reviews from 6 leading review sources. We selected the 20 highest rated companies based on our transparent scoring system which we describe in detail below.

This is our sixth year of spending massive amounts of time aggregating review scores for hundreds of travel nursing agencies to surface the highest scoring agencies. We are compelled to do this each year for several reasons. Read more

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Two Easy Ways to Get a Nursing License in Any of the 15 Non-Compact States

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Interested in obtaining your nursing license in a non-compact state?

Many of us have heard of the eNLC compact agreement: an agreement between 35 states that allows nurses to travel across state lines, with a compact license, to practice nursing. Read more

Travel Nursing Pay – The 50 Mile Myth for Tax Free Stipends

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The “50 Mile Rule” is one of the most common fallacies pertaining to tax-free reimbursements for travel nurses. It’s prominent among both travel nurses and travel nursing recruiters. Purveyors of this “rule” claim that it allows travel nurses to accept tax-free reimbursements as long as the travel assignment is 50 miles or more from the travel nurse’s tax home. This is incorrect. The IRS makes no such determination. In this article, we’ll thoroughly review this topic so travel nurses can approach it with confidence. Read more

Travel Nurse Housing Stipend

Everything You Need to Know About the Travel Nurse Housing Stipend

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The travel nurse housing stipend is one of the largest components of the travel nursing pay package. Unfortunately, the travel nurse housing stipend is also steeped in nuance and complexities. As a result, it can cause a lot of confusion. So, in this article, we cover everything you need to know about the travel nurse housing stipend so you can approach the issue with confidence. Read more

Coast Adjusted Salary for Travel Nurses

What Travel Nurses Ought to Know About the Cost Adjusted Value of Their Pay

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Travel nurses incur costs that traditional permanent employees do not. In this article, we discuss why it’s so important for travel nurses to consider these costs when they evaluate travel nursing pay packages. Additionally, we provide examples of how you can factor these costs into your pay evaluations and obtain the “Cost Adjusted Value”. This way, travel nurses achieve a more accurate idea of what they stand to earn on a travel nursing contract. Read more

How Travel Nursing Companies Calculate Pay Rates

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It’s becoming increasingly popular for travel nursing companies to advertise their pay rates on job postings. In fact, travel nursing job boards that publish pay quotes are everywhere these days. We have one on BluePipes!

It’s understandable for travel nurses to be ecstatic about this trend. However, what travel nurses don’t know about these pay quotes may come back to haunt them. So, in this article, we discuss how travel nursing companies calculate their pay rates. We also discuss everything you need to know about job advertisements with pay rates so you can navigate them with confidence. Read more

How Travel Nursing Job Boards Work And Why It Matters

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Many travel nurses express understandable frustration with travel nursing job boards. In this article, we review all the most common complaints. More importantly, we discuss everything you need to know about how travel nursing job boards work so you can navigate your job search like a pro! Read more