The median advertised pay for a travel Cath Lab (cardiac catheterization lab) contract in Louisiana is $2,956 per week, with the middle half between $2,956 and $2,958. Measured across 3 active travel Cath Lab contracts in Louisiana at 2 facilities, as of 2026-09-16.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home. With only 3 open contracts in Louisiana, treat that median as an indication rather than a rate: the contracts below are the useful part of this page.
That is 3 percent over the $2,873 national median for travel Cath Lab contracts.
Louisiana 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.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| $2,900 to $2,950 | 0 |
| $2,950 to $3,000 | 3 |
| $3,000 to $3,050 | 0 |
| $3,050 to $3,100 | 0 |
| $3,100 to $3,150 | 0 |
| $3,150 to $3,200 | 0 |
All 3 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Louisiana has the 47th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 12 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 37 percent under, while goods sit 6 percent under and services 4 percent under. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baton Rouge | 2 | $2,958 | $1,040/mo |
| Marrero | 1 | $2,956 | $1,190/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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