Thirteen weeks. One housing decision. Here's the honest math.
13 Weeks DFW is an independent field guide for travel nurses and allied clinicians on contract to Dallas–Fort Worth. Your stipend is the same whether you're at Parkland or Medical City Frisco — the rents around each facility are not. Every page on this site maps that gap.
Same GSA locality anchors, very different rents by campus.
Agencies build packages against public GSA per diem localities. Dallas and Fort Worth carry different locality rates — and within each, the rent bands around a hospital vary by hundreds a month at identical commute times. Your package is set by your recruiter and your contract; the anchors below are the public reference points to negotiate against.
GSA per diem tables, FY 2026 (Oct 1, 2025 – Sep 30, 2026). Rent anchor: public listing-platform averages, mid-2026, deliberately rounded. These are reference anchors, not your pay package — your recruiter's quote is the number that matters.
Three doors
Your facility, your pockets
Eight facility files: the two or three neighborhoods that actually work for each campus, with dated rent bands, drive times, and parking reality.
Extend or leave?
The extension decision and the 60-day lease-notice deadline collide earlier than you think. The math for both paths.
Calculators, no sign-up
Stipend-vs-rent fit, furnished vs. flex-lease true cost, and the full 13-week budget — free, nothing leaves your phone.
From the guide
The DFW Stipend Report
GSA anchors vs. actual rent bands, facility by facility — which campuses leave the most room in a housing budget right now.
The first week, mapped
Badge day, the commute test-drive, and the notice-deadline calendar entry that saves travelers real money.
Texas & the Nurse Licensure Compact
What compact-state RNs need (usually nothing), what single-state licensees should start immediately, and where to verify.
Tax-home basics, the honest version
Why stipends can be tax-advantaged, what a tax home actually requires, and exactly where this site's competence ends.
Your contract has a start date. Your housing should too.
Tell us your facility and start date and we'll time the arrival brief to your report window — current stipend anchors, the rent-band refresh for your campus, and the notice-deadline reminder in week five, when it matters.
Extending? Travelers repeat every 13 weeks. The list remembers your cycle so you don't have to re-research the same city twice.