Estimate only — not payroll, tax, or employment advice. Numbers stay in your browser.
Shift roster
Travel nurse stipend calculator: housing + meals in one stack
Travel packages often mix taxable hourly pay with housing and meal stipends. Enter housing, meals, and assignment weeks — see stipend totals. Planning math, not a W-2 or GSA lookup.
Shift roster
Stipends
Shift stack
Live- Housing
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- Meals
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- Stipend / week
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- Assignment
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When to use
Comparing travel offers with different stipend splits; checking whether a huge weekly is mostly stipend or taxable wages.
When not to
Do not treat this as tax residency advice. For full travel gross, also run the travel nurse pay page.
Assumptions: You enter stipend amounts; we do not pull GSA per-diem tables.
Worked examples
Input
Housing $1,400/wk Meals $400/wk 13 weeks
Output
Stipend $1,800/wk Assignment $23,400
Input
Housing $1,200/wk Meals $350/wk 8 weeks
Output
Stipend $1,550/wk Assignment $12,400
Common traps
- Tax-free stipend still has rules — this page does not decide that.
- Some contracts pro-rate stipends on missed shifts.
- Housing stipend is not guaranteed apartment cost.
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Common questions
Extra weekly money for housing/meals, often separate from taxable hourly wages.
Not automatically — not tax advice.
Yes — enter each line.
No — estimate only.