The median advertised pay for a travel Case Management contract in California is $3,058 per week, with the middle half between $2,829 and $3,299. Measured across 24 active travel Case Management contracts in California at 23 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 11 percent over the $2,756 national median for travel Case Management contracts.
California is not a Nurse Licensure Compact state, so you need a California license to work here even if you hold a multistate license. The compact state list explains which states issue one.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| $2,600 to $2,750 | 4 |
| $2,750 to $2,900 | 4 |
| $2,900 to $3,050 | 4 |
| $3,050 to $3,200 | 3 |
| $3,200 to $3,350 | 6 |
| $3,350 to $3,500 | 1 |
| $3,500 and up | 2 |
All 24 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
California has the highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 11 percent over the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 54 percent over, while goods sit 6 percent over and services 3 percent over. That matters more than the headline number, because housing is the part a tax-free stipend is meant to cover and the rest comes out of taxed wages.
| Metro | Open contracts | Median weekly | Rent, 1 bed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles | 3 | $3,283 | $2,150/mo |
| Oakland | 2 | $3,301 | $1,920/mo |
| Carmichael | 1 | $3,259 | $1,650/mo |
| Eureka | 1 | $2,622 | $1,040/mo |
| Glendale | 1 | $2,641 | $2,365/mo |
| Irvine | 1 | $2,947 | $3,010/mo |
| Orange | 1 | $2,790 | $2,430/mo |
| Palmdale | 1 | $2,841 | $2,080/mo |
| Pasadena | 1 | $2,713 | $2,370/mo |
| Riverside | 1 | $3,022 | $1,990/mo |
| Roseville | 1 | $3,167 | $2,110/mo |
| Sacramento | 1 | $3,199 | $1,630/mo |
Rent is the one-bedroom Fair Market Rent HUD publishes for that metro, which is what a housing stipend is trying to cover. The open-contract count beside each metro is the sample its median rests on, and outside the largest markets that sample is small: a median over one or two contracts is a single posting's rate rather than a market rate, so read the count first.
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Drawn from the postings that state a requirement, which is not all of them, so each figure carries the number it was measured from. Your recruiter confirms the specifics for a given contract before submission.