Nurse First has helped meet that need, and as a result, we have experienced a growth rate of almost 500% since 2020.” explains Nurse First Travel Agency founder and CEO, Jeremy Commisso.

Anthony Swain, 32, earned over $100,000 as a travel nurse in 2023. He said travel nursing has given him more control over his schedule and helped him avoid burnout.

The average weekly travel nurse pay in February in the U.S. was $2,917, down 22.17 percent from $3,748 during the same month in 2022, according to a report from Vivian Health, a national ...

The pandemic pay for traveling nurses was too good to pass up for many RNs. But some are ready to settle down at home, and they're finding full-time jobs aren't keeping up with salary increases.

So, in a typical month, a travel nurse might earn $6,000 for the job and $9,000 for the per-diem (calculated here as $300 per day for 30 days).

Travel nurses have been around for decades and became more widespread in the 1980s, as nursing shortages grew, but it’s really the pandemic that changed the landscape of the profession.

Stacey Button left her full-time job as a licensed practical nurse in Springdale, N.L., to become a travel nurse, after what she says was around 10 years of feeling overworked and underappreciated.

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- A staffing shortage is forcing UPMC to get creative. The hospital giant just announced a groundbreaking travel nursing program, aimed at keeping and attracting in-demand nurses.