Cost of Living
The cost of living can affect the money you make in a positive or negative way. Previously, we wrote about The 12 Highest Paying Travel Nursing Cities, but we explicitly mentioned that it is important to do all of your research to get the best end of the deal:
We want you to remember one thing when you set out on the journey to find the highest paying travel nursing cities: you have to calculate your individual profit of that particular pay after you subtract the cost of living. We could all make a million dollars a day, but if one person spends half of that on living costs and another person spends all of it I think we all know who ends up richer. Sure, a very exaggerated example, but you get the point. It won’t matter how much you make if you want luxurious living.
So, we want you to have all of the information possible, which of course would include the cost of living in the cities where you can be paid the most as a traveler. The averages for the cost of living for the following 12 highest paying travel nursing cities (calculated using the fully detailed pay packages on our website at Wanderly). You can now contemplate which fully detailed pay packages you like and you can even sort by pay to find the highest paying assignment in each city!
The 12 Highest Paying Travel Nursing Cities and Their Respective Costs of Living Are:
- Los Angeles, CA
Payment: $2,977/week
Cost of Living: $1,678/week
- San Francisco, CA
Payment: $2,843/week
Cost of Living: $2,170/week
- San Jose, CA
Payment: $2,817/week
Cost of Living: $1,912/week
- Stockton, CA
Payment: $2,467/week
Cost of Living: $1,838/week
- San Bernardino, CA
Payment:$2,445/week
Cost of Living: $1,678/week
- Washington DC
Payment: $2,408/week
Cost of Living: $1,746/week
- New York, NY
Payment: $2,381/week
Cost of Living: $1,916/week
- Boston, MA
Payment: $2,298/week
Cost of Living: $1,710/week
- Anchorage, AK
Payment: $2,125/week
Cost of Living: $1,531/week
- Milwaukee, WI
Payment: $2,018/week
Cost of Living: $1,478/week
- Chicago, IL
Payment: $2,013/week
Cost of Living: $1,838/week
- Dallas, TX
Payment: $1,913/week
Cost of Living: $1,398/week
For more tips and best practices regarding cost of living and finances, feel free to check out some of our other blogs below:
