Travel SLP · Des Moines–West Des Moines, IA · Q3 2026
Travel Speech-Language Pathologist pay benchmark in Des Moines–West Des Moines, IA
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 Speech-Language Pathologist benchmark for Des Moines–West Des Moines, IA is $2,341/week before tax, modeled from May 2025 BLS wages and FY2024 CMS contract-labor filings; it excludes stipends and premium-pay components.
What this benchmark says
- Des Moines–West Des Moines, IA ranks #10 of 120 covered metros for travel SLP modeled gross wages.
- Des Moines–West Des Moines, IA is 3.7% above the matching IA SLP state benchmark of $2,257/week. Open the state benchmark.
- The modeled p25–p75 band spans $782/week, or 33.4% of the point estimate.
- The state contract premium uses 34 valid hospital filings, a moderate sample by PayBeacon’s published thresholds.
- The latest validated source release changed the benchmark by +$79/week (+3.5%) from the prior published snapshot.
- Modeled hourly wage
- $65.02pre-tax · 36-hour week
- Blended facility contract cost
- $92.89derived from direct-patient-care contract costs in CMS filings
- Local staff wage
- $40.42median for staff in this metro, BLS
- Contract premium
- 2.30×contract vs staff, IA state · 34 hospitals
- OEWS employment
- 380staff jobs in the BLS sample
- Metro rank
- #10 of 120covered metros for SLP
- Difference from state
- +3.7%benchmark is 3.7% above IA ($2,257/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 34 hospital filings (IA state). This is an allied role — the contract premium is nursing-anchored, so treat the estimate as directional.
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