The highest-paying travel nurse specialties

Intensive care registered nurses are the highest-paid travel nurse specialty, an Indeed report found.

Here are the top nine highest-paid travel nurse jobs and their national average salaries:

  1. Intensive care registered nurse: $142,136

  2. Emergency room registered nurse: $131,764

  3. Operating room registered nurse: $127,184 

  4. Labor and delivery nurse: $125,707 

  5. Oncology registered nurse: $122,707

  6. Travel nurse: $112,721

  7. Hospice nurse: $80,741

  8. Home health registered nurse: $74,686

  9. Pediatrics registered nurse: $69,122 

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