What if there was a way to decrease the amount of time it took for you to find your next healthcare travel job? Imagine what you could do with all the extra time you’d get back.
Marketplace is making it possible for you to secure your ideal travel assignment quickly and easily with less paperwork to fill out and fewer hoops to jump through. Now, through a Marketplace profile, professional travelers in all healthcare fields and specialties can find high-paying job opportunities that fit their career goals.
As the travel healthcare industry thrives, it’s up to you to stay on top of current trends and best job search practices to excel your career. Let’s look at some travel nurse and allied health worker salary trends, plus Marketplace features that simplify the job search, application, and hiring process.
After an eventful year in healthcare, the demand for travel nurses in the U.S. continues to soar. In fact, while travel nurses traditionally make up 3 to 4 percent of the country’s total nursing community, recent studies show that percentage has jumped to a whopping 10 percent.
As the demand for RNs continues to climb, travel nurse pay rates do, as well. Of course, salaries can vary depending on a nurse’s specialty and location of practice, but overall, the average salary for travel nurses has increased dramatically over the past couple years.
In 2020, the average annual salary of a travel nurse was just over $75,000, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, and this year, Indeed reports travel RN salaries as high as $110,000 a year. Nowadays, an average registered nurse (RN) travel assignment can pay between $3,000 and $5,000 per week, including non-taxable reimbursements, which is nearly tripled average weekly wage in 2019.
But why have travel nurse salaries skyrocketed over a short span of time? A surge in patient numbers, difficulty retaining perm staff because of burnout, the nationwide nursing shortage, and a global pandemic have drastically exacerbated the need for traveling RNs.
“There was a nursing shortage before,” Ernest Grant, president of the American Nurses Association, said to Fox News. “[The pandemic] only exacerbated what we’re seeing as a shortage. There’s an estimated need of over 2 million nurses in the next five years—so there’s a lot we need to address.”
With more than 45,000 job listings for RNs in nearly every specialization, Marketplace is the prime job board for travel RNs. Save your valuable time and efficiently narrow down your travel nurse job options using Marketplace.
Not only are travel nurses in demand, but so are allied healthcare travelers. Allied workers are other care providers outside of physicians and nurses and usually have a job title as technician/assistant or therapist/technologist in a specified field.
Typically, a career as a technician requires at least a two-year educational degree, whereas a technologist/therapist will more than likely require a minimum of a four-year degree with the possibility of a master’s or doctorate, as well. Assistants perform procedures under the supervision of the technologist or therapist as the technologist diagnoses patients, develops treatment plans, and teaches students their ways.
While there is a myriad of allied health careers, All Allied Health Schools identified the top three allied professions as:
There are many more allied healthcare careers outside of OTAs, PTAs, and SLPs. Whether you’re a professional healthcare assistant, technician, technologist, or therapist, Marketplace can help you narrow down your allied job opportunities from 20,000 to one.
Search for allied health travel jobs.
There are many factors that go into the job decision-making process and for healthcare travelers, the details matter, and that’s what Marketplace is here to provide. No matter what’s important to you in a job—the money, benefits, location, the staffing agency, traveler reviews, etc.—Marketplace uses enhanced pay and job transparency to ensure you know all that you’re getting into before you officially say yes to a travel assignment.
Your all-access pass to job and pay visibility starts with a traveler profile. Create your personal profile, customize it to your liking, and add your traveler job preferences in just a few simple steps. Once your Marketplace profile is fully complete, you can start your travel job search, and use the sort and filter functions to narrow down search results to see opportunities that match your travel and career goals.
Because most Marketplace job listings include pay package amount, travel destination, type of healthcare facility, and estimated weekly hours, you can compare job details at a glance. Then, once you’ve found the travel job that’s right for you, easily apply with a quick click of a button, and wait for a call from the agency recruiter. The recruiter will work with you to help you get to the place you want to be and help you reserve your temporary housing via Marketplace. After that, it’s up to you! Now is the time to take your career into your own hands—what are you waiting for?
It doesn’t have to be an uphill battle to find a high-paying travel jobs that’s right for you. Sign up for and create a Marketplace profile to gain access to tens of thousands of travel nurse and allied healthcare travel jobs. Use the advanced Marketplace features to effectively narrow down your job search results until you find the right opportunity for you.