Find your highest-ROI healthcare assignment.
Stop comparing gross pay. WageBench scores every state and metro on take-home pay after tax, cost of living, license access, and stipend efficiency.
One score per assignment. Sorted by what actually hits your bank.
Compare every state on real take-home — not sticker rate.
Highest-paying travel role — and the most state-tax sensitive.
PT / OT / SLP — Compact license access changes the math.
Rad tech, sonographer, surgical tech, RT.
Three forces that flip the rankings.
Take-home, not gross
California's $140K RN sounds great until you subtract 9% state tax. WageBench shows what actually hits your bank account.
Cost of living matters
Mississippi's $80K goes further than Manhattan's $110K when housing eats 35% vs 8% of your pay.
License access
Skip the 4-week single-state application. NLC compact states accept your RN license overnight.
Self-serve pay benchmarking — with the real-take-home & cost-of-living layer comp surveys leave out.
Pick a role and a market and get an answer now — no order form, no analyst queue. Every wage figure carries the state-tax and cost-of-living overlay so offers compare in real dollars, and clinician supply is built in so you target where the candidates are.
- Custom comp benchmarks across 65+ healthcare occupations
- Pull market median, P25, P75, P90 for any role × geography
- Branded comp benchmark reports for clients / exec teams (PDF export)
- API access for HRIS / ATS integration
- Recruiting-Pool Finder — see which markets your next hire would gain the most by relocating from
Trending high-ROI assignments.
Top occupation × state pairs by WageBench Score · refreshes hourly.
13 states with active FEMA disasters right now · California leads with 5 (Chemical, Fire)
Active disaster zones often drive temporary surge pricing for travel nurses, RTs, and crisis-response clinicians beyond the WageBench base wage.
How we calculate the WageBench Score.
One 0-100 number per (occupation × area). Weighted blend of pay power, stipend efficiency, demand, license access, and livability — recomputed monthly.
Full methodology →Free for clinicians. Self-serve for employers.
- Every occupation × state
- Ad-supported browse
- Ad-free + CSV export
- Saved comparisons
- Everything in Pro Monthly
- 2 months free
- 5 seats · branded reports
- API access · bulk export