Templates for Travel Nurses and Clinicians.

A curated set of 5 tools for travel nurses and traveling allied-health clinicians — RT, PT, OT, rad tech, lab, surg tech — who take short agency assignments and weigh one set of offers against the next. Rank the offers on what actually lands in your bank each week, then decide the contract, negotiate it, or weigh it against a permanent role or a different city altogether.

Score a travel-nurse offer instead of agonizing over it

A travel assignment doesn't get chosen badly because nobody worked hard enough. Often it comes down to the blended rate, because that's the number a recruiter reads out first and the answer is wanted quickly. The tools here move the comparison to the part that actually decides what you keep: the rent in that city, the trips home, the license fee, and how your own answer to the tax-home question changes the ranking.

The Travel-Nurse Contract & Pay-Package Comparison Workbook is the shelf's flagship for this audience: an 11-tab spreadsheet — Excel plus a one-click native Google Sheets copy, and it opens fine in LibreOffice too — that takes four assignment offers apart into taxable rate, stipends and the real cost of being there, then ranks them on net in the bank rather than the blended rate a recruiter quotes, including a switch you set yourself that reprices every stipend as ordinary wages if your answer to the tax-home question is no. Try the free Travel-Nurse Two-Offer Comparison first — no signup — before you buy the four-offer version.

Once the contract math is settled, the rest of the shelf covers the decisions around it. The Job Offer Decision Helper scores a permanent staff position against a travel contract on your own weighted criteria, not the pay alone. The Salary & Job-Offer Negotiation Toolkit builds the counter and the ask once you know what an offer should be worth. The Career-Pivot: Job vs Self-Employment Decision Helper is for the traveler weighing another assignment against going independent. And the Where to Retire Decision Helper is for the traveler who's started asking where all this moving is actually pointing.

New to the vocabulary? Start with what a travel-nurse pay package is made of, then read blended rate vs take-home pay for the gap between the number in the job posting and the one that actually lands in your bank.

None of this is tax or employment advice. The workbook helps you compare offers and see where your own facts might move the answer; whether a specific stipend is tax-free for you is a determination only you and a qualified tax professional can make.