The median advertised pay for a travel Cath Lab (cardiac catheterization lab) contract in Arizona is $2,798 per week, with the middle half between $2,612 and $2,818. Measured across 6 active travel Cath Lab contracts in Arizona at 5 facilities, as of 2026-10-31.
Advertised weekly totals before tax, usually including tax-free stipends; for almost all postings the top of an advertised range. Not take-home.
That is 3 percent under the $2,886 national median for travel Cath Lab contracts.
Arizona is a Nurse Licensure Compact state, so an active multistate license covers you here. A single-state license from elsewhere does not. The compact state list explains which states issue one, and the compact checker tells you whether yours covers you here.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| Under $2,500 | 1 |
| $2,500 to $2,600 | 1 |
| $2,600 to $2,700 | 0 |
| $2,700 to $2,800 | 2 |
| $2,800 to $2,900 | 1 |
| $2,900 to $3,000 | 0 |
| $3,000 to $3,100 | 0 |
| $3,100 and up | 1 |
All 6 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Arizona has the 17th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 1 percent over the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 7 percent over, while goods sit 5 percent under 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tucson | 2 | $2,687 | $1,050/mo |
| Gilbert | 1 | $2,798 | $2,220/mo |
| Kingman | 1 | $3,186 | $1,020/mo |
| Mesa | 1 | $2,798 | $1,660/mo |
| Phoenix | 1 | $2,460 | $1,625/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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