Travel RN · Trenton–Princeton, NJ · Q3 2026
Travel nurse salary and pay benchmark in Trenton–Princeton, NJ
Modeled weekly gross wage benchmark
Pre-tax model on a 36-hour week after a disclosed 30% agency-margin assumption. It excludes travel and housing stipends, overtime, shift differentials, bonuses, benefits, and reimbursements. Not a package quote, paycheck, or job offer. How we compute this →
As of 2026-07-19, PayBeacon’s travel Registered Nurse benchmark for Trenton–Princeton, NJ is $2,197/week before tax, modeled from May 2025 BLS wages and FY2024 CMS contract-labor filings; it excludes stipends and premium-pay components.
How much do travel nurses make in Trenton?
PayBeacon's modeled travel RN gross-wage benchmark for Trenton–Princeton, NJ is $2,197/week before tax, or $61.04/hour on a 36-hour week. The modeled p25–p75 range is $2,093–$2,490/week.
This market is 6.1% below the matching statewide RN benchmark. This is not a paycheck or live-job quote: it excludes stipends, overtime, bonuses, benefits, reimbursements, and personal taxes.
What this benchmark says
- Trenton–Princeton, NJ ranks #29 of 120 covered metros for travel RN modeled gross wages.
- Trenton–Princeton, NJ is 6.1% below the matching NJ RN state benchmark of $2,340/week. Open the state benchmark.
- The modeled p25–p75 band spans $397/week, or 18.1% of the point estimate.
- The state contract premium uses 66 valid hospital filings, a broad sample by PayBeacon’s published thresholds.
- The latest validated source release changed the benchmark by −$354/week (-13.9%) from the prior published snapshot.
- Modeled hourly wage
- $61.04pre-tax · 36-hour week
- Blended facility contract cost
- $87.20derived from direct-patient-care contract costs in CMS filings
- Local staff wage
- $48.07median for staff in this metro, BLS
- Contract premium
- 1.81×contract vs staff, NJ state · 66 hospitals
- OEWS employment
- 5,180staff jobs in the BLS sample
- Metro rank
- #29 of 120covered metros for RN
- Difference from state
- -6.1%benchmark is 6.1% below NJ ($2,340/wk)
Each point is a validated government-source snapshot published on the date shown. This is release history—not a live-job-rate time series.
Vintages — BLS OEWS: May 2025 · CMS HCRIS: FY2024 · State caps: CY2026. Materially updated 2026-07-19. Premium computed from 66 hospital filings (NJ state).
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