Travel Jobs: Where Travelers Applied In Sept., Oct. Market Predictions
October is a crucial month for the travel healthcare staffing industry as a whole. For staffing agencies, it marks the beginning of the busiest month of the year as healthcare providers recruit temporary staff at breakneck speeds. For healthcare providers, October is the final push to find as many quality temporary workers as possible to help carry operations through at least February. As a result, the last two weeks of September ramped up sharply in job board activity leading into October, mostly affecting states that are popular destinations for snowbird travelers who head for warm weather locations like Florida, Arizona and California. The record-breaking impact of Hurricane Florence also provided an unexpected boon for travel nurse needs in North Carolina, as hospitals located away from the coastline needed help dealing with the increased patient census due to hurricane evacuees. Travel healthcare jobs October 2018 In short, we expect the travel healthcare market and job board activity to remain red-hot throughout most of October, with the potential for a slight dip at the end of the month as less new needs hit the market. Most of the market activity is expected to be driven by core specialties—for travel nurses, this means a high number of medical-surgical, telemetry and ICU will be available. We are also starting to see a noticeable increase in OR job needs in the market, which is part of the expected year-end rush for scheduled elective surgeries. While most of the hospitals near the North Carolina coast have reopened in the weeks following Hurricane Florence, there is still a heavy demand for travel nurses in Charlotte and Wilmington, according to staffing agency sources. States that were popular in September will continue to remain popular this month, including California, Arizona, Florida, Missouri, Tennessee and parts of Texas. This is a result of the regular “snowbird” traveler migration and because most of those locations—excluding California—are often the first places affected by high levels of flu activity early in the season. At the same time, northern states will also see an increase in job needs as they will look to fill vacancies left by snowbird travelers. Some of those areas include Michigan, Wisconsin, Oregon, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Maine. Hospitals in northern states will also typically increase bill rates for travel contracts during this time to entice recruiters to submit quality candidates who will stay through the winter, which can translate into higher pay packages depending on what agencies travelers use. This mostly applies to the coldest areas like Michigan, Wisconsin and Maine, and not so much for winter tourist destinations like Colorado or Utah. Core specialties are expected to be the most in-demand. For travel nurses, this means medical-surgical, telemetry, and ICU. We also expect to see an increasing amount of OR job needs, as more elective surgeries take place during the end of the year. Let’s take a closer look at what we learned from the StaffDNA job board about where travelers applied in September. Michigan, Missouri enter the Top 10 Michigan jumped eight ranks from August to September, moving from No. 17 to No. 9. Missouri made a smaller climb of three ranks to take the No. 3 spot. We may see both states retain their top 10 status as winter approaches. Of the two, Missouri is most likely to drop in total traveler applications in October. The late-August hiring surge in St. Louis may have been a factor in the increase of applications for September, but we expect it to at least hang around the top 20 states for October. September’s Top Markets California Florida Texas North Carolina Georgia Pennsylvania Arizona Tennessee Michigan Missouri Virginia South Carolina Indiana West Virginia Wisconsin Arkansas Kentucky Iowa Nevada Oklahoma Maine Idaho New Mexico Oregon Hawaii Colorado Washington Ohio Illinois Alabama Alaska Massachusets Maryland Connecticut Kansas New Jersey Louisiana Minnesota Wyoming Montana New Hampshire New York Washington D.C. Mississippi North Dakota Nebraska Rhode Island South Dakota Vermont Delaware Utah
Top 10 Highest Paying Travel Healthcare Jobs: July 2
Happy Independence Day week, everyone! As our nation’s birthday approaches, we can think of no better way to celebrate than by finding the hottest travel healthcare jobs in the good old U.S. of A. The highest packages this week come out of California, which should be no surprise if you’ve visited our Travel Nursing Pay Package state ranking list, but it does track with our story about how labor and delivery and OR jobs have heated up in the past two weeks. Going forward, we also plan to arrange our list by highest listed pay to lowest for your convenience. Want to see us highlight some other states, specialties or professions in our list next week? Let us know in the comments! Travel Healthcare Jobs: July 2-6 Editor’s Note: The details listed below are subject to change based on contract availability. 1. RN- OR, Travel Location: Palm Springs, California Weekly Pay: $2,898 Duration: 13 Weeks Day Shift View this Travel Job >> 2. RN- OR, Travel Location: Chico, California Weekly Pay: $2,680 Duration: 13 Weeks Day Shift View this Travel Job >> 3. RN- OR, Travel Location: Bangor, Maine Weekly Pay: $2,586 Duration: 15 Weeks Day Shift View this Travel Job >> 4. RN- Labor and Delivery (L&D) Location: Atlanta, Georgia Weekly Pay: $2,050 Duration: 13 Weeks Night Shift View this Travel Job >> 5. RN- Medical-Surgical, Travel Location: Chinle, Arizona Weekly Pay: $1,996 Duration: 13 Weeks Day/Night Rotate View this Travel Job >> 6. RN- OR, Travel Location: Scranton, Pennsylvania Weekly Pay: $1,886 Duration: 13 Weeks Day Shift View this Travel Job >> 7. RN- Medical-Surgical, Travel Location: Reno, Nevada Weekly Pay: $1,860 Duration: 13 Weeks Day Shift View this Travel Job >> 8. Certified SurgTech- CVOR, Travel Location: Hilton Head Island, South Carolina Weekly Pay: $1,822 Duration: 13 Weeks Day Shift View this Travel Job >> 9. Certified SurgTech- CVOR, Travel Location: Brookfield, Wisconsin Weekly Pay: $1,784 Duration: 13 Weeks Day Shift View this Travel Job >> 10. RN- OR, Travel Location: Scranton, Pennsylvania Weekly Pay: $1,741 Duration: 13 Weeks Day Shift View this Travel Job >>
Top 10 Highest Paying Travel Healthcare Jobs: June 25
Another hot week of summer means another week of hot travel healthcare jobs, and we’ve got the scoop on great positions around the nation from StaffDNA job board data. If you’ve kept up with our posts each week, you’ll notice a subtle change—we’ve switched our headline from just “nursing” jobs to “healthcare,” because we’ve also found a couple of great travel surgical tech positions this week. We talk a lot about the travel nursing market on HCT Today, but we also want to highlight other opportunities from week to week for our non-nurse readers as well. Now that we’ve covered the fun part, let’s check out this week’s top jobs. Travel Nursing Jobs: June 25-30 Editor’s Note: The details listed below are subject to change based on contract availability. 1. RN-Telemetry, Travel Location: Scranton, Pennsylvania Weekly Pay: $1,741 Duration: 13 Weeks Day Shift View this Travel Job >> 2. RN- Telemetry (TELE), Travel Location: Scranton, Pennsylvania Weekly Pay: $1,881 Duration: 13 Weeks Day Shift View this Travel Job >> 3. RN- Medical-Surgical, Travel Location: Chinlee, Arizona Weekly Pay: $1,996 Duration: 13 Weeks Day/Night Rotating View this Travel Job >> 4. RN- Medical-Surgical, Travel Location: Reno, Nevada Weekly Pay: $1,860 Duration: 13 Weeks Day Shift View this Travel Job >> 5. RN- OR, Travel Location: Palm Springs, California Weekly Pay: $2,898 Duration: 13 Weeks Day Shift View this Travel Job >> 6. RN- OR, Travel Location: Chico, California Weekly Pay: $2,680 Duration: 13 Weeks Day Shift View this Travel Job >> 7. RN- Labor and Delivery (L&D), Travel Location: Atlanta, Georgia Weekly Pay: $2,050 Duration: 13 Weeks Day Shift View this Travel Job >> 8. RN- Telemetry (TELE), Travel Location: Memphis, Tennessee Weekly Pay: $1,746 Duration: 13 Weeks Night Shift View this Travel Job >> 9. Certified SurgTech-First Assist Location: Lafayette, Indiana Weekly Pay: $2,108 Duration: 8 Weeks Day Shift View this Travel Job >> 10. Certified SurgTech-Sterile Processing, Travel Location: Columbia, Tennessee Weekly Pay: $1,562 Duration: 13 Weeks Day Shift View this Travel Job >> Didn’t find the job you’re looking for? You can view more travel healthcare job opportunities here.