The Best Travel Nursing Companies 2024

The best travel nursing companies for 2024 are here! This year, we evaluated over 450 travel nursing agencies. To do so, we aggregated over 195,000 reviews from 5 of the top review sources. Then, we ran the scores through our transparent scoring system to determine the top 20 travel nursing agencies for 2024.

How BluePipes Scores the Best Travel Nursing Agencies

In case you’re interested, at the end of this article we provide a full breakdown of the scoring for one of the companies on our list. This way, you can see exactly how the scoring works.

That said, we want to give you some background on the scoring system at the outset so that you can have confidence in the list you’re about to review.

First, we do not accept payments of any kind from any company as a condition for consideration or placement on this list. Instead, we scour the web to find every travel nursing agency we can and put their names into our spreadsheet for consideration.

Next, we manually search for each company on 5 different review websites. Then, we manually add the number of reviews and the review score into the spreadsheet for each company we can find. Here are the 5 review sources we used this year.

Rating Services for 2024

It’s important to note that a prominent review source we’ve always used is missing from this year’s list. Atlas MedStaff bought Highway Hypodermics last year. They decided to eliminate reviews from their service offerings.

Why we make the list?

You might be thinking that this sounds like a lot of work just to come up with a list of the best travel nursing companies. You’re right! It is a ton of work!! So, why do we do it?

For starters, travel healthcare professionals want to find the best travel nursing companies to work with. We moderate multiple social media groups related to travel healthcare. Questions about the best travel nursing companies are among the most commonly asked.

Unfortunately, determining the best travel nursing companies is really difficult. Relying on answers to a question you pose on social media is a really bad idea. At best, you’re going to hear from the small number of people who decided to answer at that particular time. At worst, you’ll hear from a bunch of recruiters posing as travel nurses.

It’s also difficult to rely on single review services because the reviews vary from one service to the next. A travel nursing company might have hundreds of reviews on one service and zero reviews on another. Or, they might have glowing reviews on one service and horrifying reviews on another. We can control for that by aggregating the reviews.

Meanwhile, the internet is now inundated with lists of the best travel nursing companies from content farms and lead generators whose sole purpose is to rank on Google for search terms that dive traffic to their websites. Google is now happy to oblige this spammy behavior. As a result, the first page search results include links to pages with travel nursing companies that no longer exist and others that provide downright horrible service.

Moreover, many of the web pages that Google displays claim that they provide a list of the best travel nursing companies of the year. For example, the title will say, “Best Travel Nursing Companies 2024”. However, it’s the same list and web page from 2021, 2022 and 2023. We think that is disingenuous and disrespectful to both the agencies and healthcare professionals.

Interesting observations for 2024

One of the many benefits of evaluating travel nursing companies on an annual basis like we do is that we can spot trends and changes from one year to the next. This year was highly atypical.

First, this year saw the largest decline in the aggregate average review score for all companies combined that we’ve ever seen. Typically, the aggregate average score for all travel nursing companies combined fluctuates by less than 1 point from one year to the next. For example, this score was 80.65 in 2022 and 80.15 in 2023. This score dropped to 78.85 in 2024. I know it doesn’t sound like much, but it’s a difference of over 200% in the change of this score!

What happened? Well, it’s no secret that it’s been a rough 12 to 18 months for the travel healthcare staffing industry. Job counts and pay rates plummeted as the country emerged from the throes of the COVID pandemic. Hospitals cancelled contracts at an alarming rate. Agencies were forced to lay off large percentages of internal staff members abruptly. As a result, the number of negative reviews spiked relative to previous years.

Interestingly, our annual list of the best travel nursing companies experienced its highest turnover rate ever. A closer look at the results revealed a pattern. Larger travel nursing companies fared worse than their smaller counterparts. It would seem as though the more employees a company had, the more layoffs they may have experienced and therefore the more exposed they were to negative reviews.

Best Large Travel Nursing Companies

As a result, we’ve decided to highlight a handful of the larger companies with the best scores from this year’s evaluations. We’re not technically adding them to the list of the best travel nursing companies of 2024. However, we do want to travel nurses to have some larger companies to consider given that these companies often have access to a larger number of jobs than their smaller counterparts.

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Best Travel Nursing Companies of 2024

Here are the best travel nursing agencies for 2024.

1. Seven Healthcare

Seven Healthcare claims the top spot on our 2024 list of the best travel nursing companies with an aggregate average score of 97.55 on 231 total reviews. 223 of those reviews are on Google where the company has an average rating of 4.9 out of 5. They earned bonus points for increasing their aggregate average score by over 2 points compared to last year.

Seven Healthcare has received glowing reviews from both experienced travel healthcare professionals and newcomers. Experienced travel healthcare professionals repeatedly state that Seven Healthcare provided the best service of all the agencies they’ve worked with. Newcomers repeatedly state that Seven Healthcare’s recruiters happily answered all their questions, giving them the confidence they needed to move forward.

While Seven Healthcare is located in Miami, Florida, it is a subsidiary of Seven Resourcing, which is based in Ipswich, United Kingdom. The company also has an office in Queensland, Australia.

2. Anders Group

Anders Group makes our list for the first time this year with a total score of 100.44. Their aggregate average score was 91.44 on 187 reviews across all review sources. They earned 9 bonus points because their scores on Glassdoor and Google significantly increased from the previous year.

Reviewers commonly report that Anders Group’s recruiters are highly responsive, honest and thorough. The company offers personalized one-on-one support that is available 24/7/365.

Anders Group is a boutique agency that is striving to maintain that personal boutique approach as they grow. Their company values are Accountability, Respect, Integrity, Service and Evolving, or ARISE.

Anders Group is based in Dallas, Texas and formed in 2010. They staff Allied healthcare professionals and Nurses nationwide.

3. Medical Talent

Medical Talent makes our list on the strength of their aggregate average score alone. That score was a perfect 100 with 85 reviews across all review sources.

Medical Talent is a subsidiary of Talent Corps. Jared DeRuby, a veteran of the US Marine Corps, founded Talent Corps in 2017. They founded Medical Talent in 2020 and staff Nurses and Allied healthcare professionals nationwide.

As a veteran owned company, pride in service is a core philosophy. The reviews indicate that Medical Talent as highly organized and efficient. Specifically, many reviewers mention that the onboarding process is very easy. They also mention that Medical Talent’s recruiters are friendly, attentive and highly effective.

Medical Talent boasts a 90% retention rate. That means Medical Talent’s travelers are happy with their service and that Medical Talent is doing a great job at securing extensions or the next contract.

4. Axis Medical Staffing

Axis Medical Staffing has made our annual list of the best travel nursing companies every single year since 2014. They are now the only company on our list to accomplish that feat. They were the number 1 company in 2022.

At 97.10, Axis Medical Staffing has the highest aggregate average score of any agency with more than 700 total reviews. They actually have 732 total reviews. It’s uncanny if you really think about it. The vast majority of their reviews are 5 stars and they rarely get less than 4 stars.

The reviews describe Axis Medical Staffing as a fun loving and hard-working group that is dedicated to providing world class service to their clinicians. Several clinicians mentioned that Axis recruiters were able to get them submitted quickly enough to land highly competitive contracts.

Axis Medical Staffing is based in Seattle, Washington. They staff Nurses and Allied health professionals nationwide.

5. Cynet Health

This is Cynet Health’s second appearance on our annual list. They were number 5 on our list for 2022. This year, we counted over 3,000 reviews for them, making them the most reviewed company on this year’s list. They’re aggregate average score was 95.34.

Cynet Health offers a robust and flexible benefits package. They are routinely cited as among the highest paying companies in the industry. Reviewers describe Cynet Health’s recruiters as patient, thorough and highly responsive. Cynet Health’s team is available 24/7.

Cynet Health is based in Sterling, Virgina. They staff Nurses and Allied healthcare professionals nationwide.

6. Skyline Med Staff

Skyline Med Staff had an aggregate average score of 98.02. That was strong enough for them to make our annual list for the first time without any bonus points. They had 92 total reviews, with most of them on Google.

Skyline Med Staff is a woman-owned staffing agency. They pride themselves of providing service that is uniquely tailored to each individual candidate’s needs and wants. Many of their reviews are from highly experience travel healthcare professionals explaining why they think Skyline Med Staff is the best company they’ve worked with.

Skyline Med Staff is based in Omaha, Nebraska. They staff Nurses and Allied health professionals nationwide.

7. Travel Nurses Inc.

This is Travel Nurses, Inc.’s second year in a row on our annual list of the best travel nursing agencies. This year, we counted 151 reviews with an aggregate average score 94.94.

Reviewers routinely mention that Travel Nurses, Inc.’s recruiters are quick to respond and highly personable. Many travelers mention that the onboarding process is highly organized and efficient. Reviewers also like the fact that Travel Nurses, Inc. offers both travel assignments and PRN shifts.

We love Travel Nurses, Inc.’s job board. It is very user friendly and provides lots of great information.

8. Walker Healthforce

We counted 209 total reviews with an aggregate average score of 97.44 for Walker Healthforce. As a result, they make our list at number 8 on the strength of their aggregate average score alone.

Reviewers repeatedly state that Walker Healthforce’s team is great at following through and following up. Reviewers also mention that Walker Healthforce is proactive and routinely checks in to make sure everything is oaky while travelers are on assignment. They describe Walker Healthforce’s recruiters as highly knowledgeable, responsive, efficient and organized.

Walker Healthforce is located in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. They staff nurses, allied healthcare professional and healthcare IT consultants nationwide.

9. Uniti Med

Uniti Med makes our list for the second year in a row. They had 200 new reviews this year compared to last year. Their aggregate average of 98 is the highest for any company with over 500 reviews on our list.

Reviewers routinely describe service that exceeds their expectations. They describe the recruiters as highly accessible, friendly and patient. As an organization Uniti Med prioritizes the personal health and well being of all their employees. They are also a very charitable organization.

Uniti Med is based in Omaha, Nebraska. They were founded in 2021 but have already won numerous reputable industry awards. For example, this year Uniti Med made SIA’s list of the Best Staffing Firms to Work For.

10. Nurses 24/7

Nurses 24/7 came in with an aggregate average score of 92.38 and 170 total reviews. Their aggregate average score increased more than 4 points on 47 new reviews compared to the previous year.

Nurses 24/7 was founded in 2001. They made SIA’s list of the largest travel nursing companies in 2022.

Nurses 24/7 has a highly robust and flexible offering of benefits. They offer travel contracts, local contracts, per diem and permanent placement services.

Reviewers describe Nurses 24/7’s recruiters as accommodating and hard-working. They are based in Wayne, New Jersey and staff nationwide.

11. GetMed Staffing

GetMed Staffing makes our list on the strength of their aggregate average score alone. It came in at 96.72 on 134 reviews. We counted 104 new reviews for GetMed Staffing this year.

Reviewers of GetMed Staffing repeatedly state that the company strikes the perfect balance between friendliness and professionalism. Additionally, reviewers repeatedly describe how GetMed Staffing helps them manage and advance their careers.

12. MedUS Healthcare Travelers

This is MedUS Healthcare’s second year in a row on our annual list of the best travel nursing companies. They had an aggregate average score of 97.18 on 104 total reviews.

Reviewers describe MedUS Healthcare’s recruiters as attentive, prompt and compassionate. That said, reviewers most commonly say that the team at MedUS is highly knowledgeable. That’s no doubt the result of MedUS’s rigorous training program which includes the highly reputable 3^rd party training service Moxie Mentoring.

MedUS Healthcare is based in Cincinnati, Ohio. They staff Nurses and Allied healthcare professionals nationwide.

13. AHS Staffing

AHS Staffing makes our list with an aggregate average review score of 94.75 on 1752 reviews. That makes them the second most reviewed company on this year’s list. AHS Staffing was number 6 on our list in 2021 and number 2 in 2022.

AHS Staffing operates with separate divisions including AHS NurseStat for nurses and AHS MedStat for Allied Healthcare professionals. This year, we combined the scores for all of these divisions into one total score. Rest assured, each division scores exceptionally well on their own!

14. GLC Group

GLC Group had an exceptional year in reviews. They more than doubled their prior year’s review count, adding 178 new reviews for a total of 329 reviews. Their aggregate average review score increased by more than 7 points! Most notably, they added 153 new reviews on Google and increased their average score there by more than 10 points!

GLC On-The-Go is based in Weston, Florida. They staff Nurses and Allied health professionals nationwide.

15. Pioneer Healthcare Services

Pioneer Healthcare Services is making our list for the first time this year. They do so on the strength of their aggregate average review score alone. We counted 85 reviews with an average score of 94.66.

Pioneer’s reviewers describe recruiters who are patient, knowledgeable and thorough. Many first-time travelers shared that Pioneer’s recruiters provided them with the foundational knowledge and confidence they needed to navigate their first assignments with ease.

16. Medical Staffing Solutions, Inc.

MSSI makes our list for the fourth time in the past 8 years. This year, we counted 460 reviews with an aggregate average score of 92.33, which marks a slight increase over last year’s score.

MSSI has a policy of providing their best pay offer up front so that travelers do not need to worry about negotiating. They’re known to pay really good rates when all else is equal. They also offer day 1 medical coverage.

Reviewers describe the company as fair and transparent. They laud MSSI’s friendliness, knowledge and efficiency.

17. Lead Health

Lead Health came in with an aggregate average score of 94.29 on 82 total reviews. This is their first time on our list and they made it on the strength of their aggregate average score alone.

While Lead Health has their headquarters in Los Angeles, California, they are a fully remote organization nonetheless. That can be a great thing for worker morale.

Additionally, Lead Health offers a tech enabled recruiterless option as well as a team of experienced recruiters. This means that travelers can utilize Lead Health’s software applications to pretty much navigate the entire process with little to no human interaction, but still have access to a human recruiter anytime they’d like. It’s the best of both worlds!

18. SkyBridge Healthcare

SkyBridge Healthcare makes our annual list for the first time with an aggregate average score of 94.07. We counted 81 total reviews for them. 77 of those are on Google where they have an average score of 94.

SkyBridge Healthcare offers their internal staff fun Fridays, remote flexibility and community involvement opportunities. Their travelers describe SkyBridge Healthcare as caring, competent and highly responsive. Several travelers also commented that the team at SkyBridge does not pressure their travelers in any way.

19. Ventura Medstaff

Ventura MedStaff started in 2018 with a highly experienced team of industry veterans. This is their third appearance on our list. They were number 6 in 2020 and number 7 in 2023.

This year, Ventura MedStaff’s aggregate average score is 95.11 on 247 reviews. That’s down slightly from last year, but still high enough to make them one of the highest scoring companies with more than 200 reviews. Perhaps more importantly, Ventura MedStaff has an average review score of 98 with 145 reviews on Google.

Reviewers repeatedly describe Ventura’s recruiters as honest, straightforward partners who work diligently to ensure the travelers’ needs are met. The reviewers also praise Ventura MedStaff’s onboarding and payroll services.

20. Premier Medical Staffing Services

Premier Medical Staffing Services had an exceptional year. They increased their aggregate average score by more than 5 points with 145 new reviews. Their aggregate average score is now 90.61 on 242 total reviews.

Relationship building is central for Premier Medical Staffing Services. Many reviewers describe how their recruiters took time to get to know them both professionally and personally. They also repeatedly state that the team at Premier are excellent communicators and highly organized.

Best Scoring Large Travel Nursing Companies for 2024

As I mentioned above the last 12 months was atypically difficult for the travel healthcare industry. Ultimately, the larger companies in the industry experienced downturns in their review scores to a far larger degree than their smaller counterparts. As a result, this year’s list is lacking in larger companies relative to past lists.

I think it’s valuable for travel healthcare professionals to have diversity in their choices. Therefore, I’m highlighting the highest scoring larger companies here. While they did not make the list this year, they do have exceptional review scores.

Please note that I am highlighting their aggregate scores and not their total scores. Their total scores were lower due to penalties for score reductions compared to last year.

BluePipes Best Travel Nursing Companies Scoring System

As I mentioned above, I think it’s important that we share details about how our scoring system works. By doing so, you’ll be able to see what we are measuring and how we are measuring it. This way, you can determine how best to interpret and utilize the results.

To that end, I will provide a breakdown of the scoring for Travel Nurse Across America (TNAA).

Review Sources for the Best Travel Nursing Companies 2024

As I mentioned above, we used 5 review sources this year. Those sources are Travel Nursing Central, Facebook, Glassdoor, Indeed and Google.

Travel Nursing Central is the only review source of the 5 that accepts reviews from travelers only. That means the four other sources accept reviews from both travelers and internal staff. We’re okay with that. In fact, we think it’s advantageous. A happy internal staff is strongly correlated with happy travel nurses. And, paradoxically, internal staff tend to leave more negative reviews than you might think.

Score Collection for the Best Travel Nursing Companies

First, I visit the review page for TNAA on each of the review sources. I enter the number of reviews and the review score into a spreadsheet.

Here are the results for TNAA in 2024:

Calculating the Aggregate Average Score for the Best Travel Nursing Companies

Next, we need to convert all the scores to a standard scoring scale so that we can combine them all to calculate the aggregate average. We choose to convert all the scores to a 100-point scale. Here is how that breaks down for TNAA:

Next, we need to calculate the total number of reviews and the total value of all the reviews. Here is how that looks for TNAA.

Next, we divide the total value of all the reviews by the total number of reviews. This gives us the aggregate average score.

Aggregate Difference Score for 2024

Now that we have the aggregate average score for 2024, we can calculate the aggregate difference score for 2024. The aggregate difference score simply compares this year’s aggregate average score to last year’s aggregate average score. Then, it awards a bonus for score increases and a penalty for score decreases if the company’s scores meet the requirements.

Here are the requirements for the Aggregate Difference score:

TNAA’s aggregate average score for 2024 was 92.67590062. Their aggregate average score for 2023 was 92.6552935. As you can see, their score in 2024 is higher than their score from 2023. Therefore, they will get a bonus.

To calculate the bonus, we simply subtract the score for 2023 from the score for 2024 (92.67590062 – 92.6552935 = 0.02060712). So, TNAA’s aggregate difference score for 2024 is +0.02060712.

In case you’re wondering, all those decimal places do matter. For example, the number 15 and 16 companies on our list this year are separated by just 0.0016413 points.

Individual Difference Score for 2024

Next, we calculate the individual-difference score for each individual review source. As the name implies, we calculate the difference between this year’s score and last year’s score for each individual review source. Here again, the company can get bonuses or penalties depending on whether or not their score was higher or lower from one year to the next.

We choose to keep the exact scoring method and requirements for the individual-difference score private. We do this because copycat services have been trying to copy our methodology. That said, please contact us for all the details if you’re a traveler or agency who would like to learn more.

Minium Requirements for the Best Travel Nursing Companies List

At this point, we have calculated the final scores. The only thing left to do is to check to make sure the companies meet the minimum requirements.

We don’t do this for all 400+ companies. Instead, we sort the companies from highest to lowest score. Then, we start at the top and work our way down to find the top 20 companies that meet all the qualifications.

First, the company must have minimum of 50 total reviews. Second, the company must have 15 reviews from healthcare professionals within the last year. These two qualifications work to ensure that we have a reasonable sample size.

Finally, we check for malicious fake reviews. We are looking specifically for fake reviews that the company might have solicited to game the system. For example, Facebook has a major problem with fake reviews. However, the travel nursing companies are not soliciting them. Instead, they are spam reviews about Cryptocurrency or Foreign Exchange Futures trading.

Alternatively, we are looking for reviews about the company that we can identify as fake. There are many ways to do this. For example, we’ve found cases where the same reviewers had left reviews for the same services all over the world. It’s just not possible for that to happen unless these accounts are in the business of leaving fake reviews.

Now that you’re an expert on our scoring system, you can decide how best to interpret and utilize the results. Also, you’re probably ready for a nap after reading this entire article!

I hope you found this information useful. More importantly, I hope it helps you find a great company or 4 to assist with your career as a travel healthcare professional. Speaking of which, you can join BluePipes for free and make use of our job board, document management tools and pay calculator. It’s the easiest way to find your next assignment!