Travel Nurse 13-Week Contract Budget Planner

A travel contract is not a salary. It is 13 weeks of taxable pay plus housing and meals stipends, minus the cost of living in two places at once. This Budget Planner runs the whole contract in one file: the weekly package week by week, every duplicated expense priced over the full contract, and a plain answer to the only question that matters — what do I actually keep?

What it does for you:
– Start Here — 5-minute setup: enter your taxable hourly rate, guaranteed hours per week, and your weekly housing and meals stipends.
– Contract Pay Planner — all 13 weeks laid out. Taxable pay, both stipends and travel reimbursement total themselves per week and for the contract; type real hours when a week is cut or you pick up extra.
– Duplicated Expenses — assignment housing AND the tax home you keep paying for, each item priced over the whole contract (weekly ×13, monthly ×3), split by what the stipend covers vs what comes out of pocket.
– Housing stipend check — the Dashboard compares stipends received against assignment housing cost, so an over-priced rental is visible in week one, not week ten.
– Expense Log — log everyday spending once; the budget reads it automatically.
– Monthly Budget — zero-based monthly budget where every dollar gets a job; Actual pulls from the Expense Log by itself.
– Dashboard — contract pay, duplicated-expense total, out-of-pocket total, and an honest “estimated kept” figure.
– Sample rows pre-filled so every formula works the moment you open it; formula cells are locked (password disclosed in Start Here) and every formula is error-wrapped. Tracking tool only — stipend tax rules are personal; confirm your tax-home position with a tax professional.

What’s inside (.xlsx, works in Excel AND Google Sheets): Start Here · Contract Pay Planner (13 weeks) · Duplicated Expenses (living twice, priced) · Expense Log · Monthly Budget (zero-based) · Dashboard · Monthly Summary (12 months).

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