The median advertised pay for a travel Cath Lab (cardiac catheterization lab) contract in Pennsylvania is $3,422 per week, with the middle half between $3,152 and $3,422. Measured across 5 active travel Cath Lab contracts in Pennsylvania at 5 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home. With only 5 open contracts in Pennsylvania, treat that median as an indication rather than a rate: the contracts below are the useful part of this page.
That is 19 percent over the $2,873 national median for travel Cath Lab contracts.
Pennsylvania 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 |
|---|---|
| Under $2,900 | 1 |
| $2,900 to $3,000 | 0 |
| $3,000 to $3,100 | 0 |
| $3,100 to $3,200 | 1 |
| $3,200 to $3,300 | 0 |
| $3,300 to $3,400 | 0 |
| $3,400 to $3,500 | 3 |
All 5 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Pennsylvania has the 24th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 2 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 15 percent under, while goods sit 1 percent under and services 0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jefferson Hills | 1 | $3,422 | — |
| Philadelphia | 1 | $2,765 | $1,355/mo |
| Pittsburgh | 1 | $3,438 | $960/mo |
| Wexford | 1 | $3,422 | $1,600/mo |
| York | 1 | $3,152 | $1,070/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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