The median advertised pay for a travel Cath Lab (cardiac catheterization lab) contract in Massachusetts is $3,224 per week, with the middle half between $2,956 and $3,275. Measured across 8 active travel Cath Lab contracts in Massachusetts at 4 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home. With only 8 open contracts in Massachusetts, treat that median as an indication rather than a rate: the contracts below are the useful part of this page.
That is 12 percent over the $2,873 national median for travel Cath Lab contracts.
Massachusetts has enacted the Nurse Licensure Compact but has not implemented it, so a multistate license does not cover you here yet. You need a Massachusetts license. The compact state list explains which states issue one.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| Under $2,600 | 1 |
| $2,600 to $2,700 | 0 |
| $2,700 to $2,800 | 0 |
| $2,800 to $2,900 | 0 |
| $2,900 to $3,000 | 2 |
| $3,000 to $3,100 | 0 |
| $3,100 to $3,200 | 0 |
| $3,200 and up | 5 |
All 8 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Massachusetts has the 7th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 6 percent over the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 28 percent over, while goods sit 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boston | 4 | $3,251 | $2,600/mo |
| Fall River | 2 | $2,684 | $1,260/mo |
| Lawrence | 2 | $2,941 | $1,450/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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