The median advertised pay for a travel Cath Lab (cardiac catheterization lab) contract in Illinois is $3,160 per week, with the middle half between $3,055 and $3,452. Measured across 10 active travel Cath Lab contracts in Illinois at 6 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 10 percent over the $2,873 national median for travel Cath Lab contracts.
Illinois is not a Nurse Licensure Compact state, so you need a Illinois license to work here even if you hold a multistate license. The compact state list explains which states issue one.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| Under $3,000 | 1 |
| $3,000 to $3,100 | 3 |
| $3,100 to $3,200 | 2 |
| $3,200 to $3,300 | 1 |
| $3,300 to $3,400 | 0 |
| $3,400 to $3,500 | 0 |
| $3,500 to $3,600 | 3 |
All 10 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Illinois has the 19th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 0 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 6 percent under, while goods sit 4 percent over and services 0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago | 2 | $3,012 | $1,590/mo |
| Harvey | 2 | $3,087 | $1,210/mo |
| Peoria | 2 | $3,568 | $790/mo |
| Springfield | 2 | $3,384 | $930/mo |
| Carbondale | 1 | $3,199 | $790/mo |
| Decatur | 1 | $3,061 | $800/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.
Browse the board for current Cath Lab assignments in Illinois.
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.
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