The median advertised pay for a travel Cath Lab (cardiac catheterization lab) contract in Rhode Island is $3,230 per week, with the middle half between $3,230 and $3,286. Measured across 3 active travel Cath Lab contracts in Rhode Island at 3 facilities, as of 2026-10-31.
Advertised weekly totals before tax, usually including tax-free stipends; for almost all postings the top of an advertised range. Not take-home. With only 3 open contracts in Rhode Island, 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 $2,885 national median for travel Cath Lab contracts.
Rhode Island 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, and the compact checker tells you whether yours covers you here.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| $3,200 to $3,250 | 2 |
| $3,250 to $3,300 | 0 |
| $3,300 to $3,350 | 1 |
| $3,350 to $3,400 | 0 |
| $3,400 to $3,450 | 0 |
| $3,450 to $3,500 | 0 |
All 3 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Rhode Island has the 15th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 2 percent over the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 6 percent over, while goods sit 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Providence | 2 | $3,230 | $1,320/mo |
| Warwick | 1 | $3,342 | $1,475/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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