Travel Nursing Blog

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

Fake Travel Nursing Jobs or Jobs That Fill Fast?

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It’s not uncommon for travel nurses to discuss a potential travel nursing job with a recruiter, complete the agency’s paperwork, and then find out the the job is no longer open. This scenario happens often enough that it leaves many travel nurses wondering if agencies advertise fake jobs just to get travel nurses to complete the paperwork. Read more

Best Travel Nursing Companies 2021

The Best Travel Nursing Companies 2021

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The best travel nursing companies for 2021 are here! This year, we evaluated over 350 companies by aggregating 91,240 reviews from 6 of the most reputable review sources. The result is this objective list of 20 amazing travel nursing agencies. Read more

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How to Write COVID-19 on Your Travel Nurse Resume

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COVID-19 has left you feeling battered, somewhat beaten. If you cannot figure out how to convey to your friends and family what it is like to work on a COVID-19 unit, how could you ever find the words to put on your resume? Read more

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The Best Specialties for Travel Nursing – 2020

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The best specialties for travel nursing are those with the highest demand and the highest pay. However, those two attributes don’t necessarily go hand in hand. In this article, we’ll use data from our travel nursing job board to give you an idea of how various specialties rank for these two attributes. Read more