The median advertised pay for a travel Cath Lab (cardiac catheterization lab) contract in Texas is $2,644 per week, with the middle half between $2,548 and $2,784. Measured across 9 active travel Cath Lab contracts in Texas at 7 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.
That is 9 percent under the $2,902 national median for travel Cath Lab contracts.
Texas 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 |
|---|---|
| Under $2,400 | 1 |
| $2,400 to $2,500 | 0 |
| $2,500 to $2,600 | 2 |
| $2,600 to $2,700 | 2 |
| $2,700 to $2,800 | 2 |
| $2,800 to $2,900 | 1 |
| $2,900 to $3,000 | 0 |
| $3,000 and up | 1 |
All 9 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Texas has the 25th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 3 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 3 percent under, while goods sit 2 percent under and services 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bryan | 2 | $2,562 | $1,140/mo |
| Houston | 2 | $2,514 | $1,250/mo |
| Dallas | 1 | $2,718 | $1,530/mo |
| El Paso | 1 | $3,041 | $1,020/mo |
| Seguin | 1 | $2,886 | $1,110/mo |
| The Woodlands | 1 | $2,548 | — |
| Tyler | 1 | $2,784 | $1,080/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.
Browse the board for current Cath Lab assignments in Texas.
All 39 states with Cath Lab openings