The median advertised pay for a travel Cath Lab (cardiac catheterization lab) contract in New York is $2,825 per week, with the middle half between $2,710 and $3,170. Measured across 8 active travel Cath Lab contracts in New York at 3 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home. With only 8 open contracts in New York, treat that median as an indication rather than a rate: the contracts below are the useful part of this page.
That is 2 percent under the $2,873 national median for travel Cath Lab contracts.
New York is not a Nurse Licensure Compact state, so you need a New York 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 $2,500 | 1 |
| $2,500 to $2,650 | 1 |
| $2,650 to $2,800 | 2 |
| $2,800 to $2,950 | 1 |
| $2,950 to $3,100 | 0 |
| $3,100 to $3,250 | 1 |
| $3,250 to $3,400 | 2 |
All 8 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
New York has the 5th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 8 percent over the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 22 percent over, while goods sit 7 percent over and services 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rochester | 6 | $2,753 | $1,090/mo |
| Cortlandt Manor | 2 | $3,011 | — |
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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