The median advertised pay for a travel Cath Lab (cardiac catheterization lab) contract in Texas is $2,757 per week, with the middle half between $2,567 and $2,800. Measured across 7 active travel Cath Lab contracts in Texas at 6 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home. With only 7 open contracts in Texas, treat that median as an indication rather than a rate: the contracts below are the useful part of this page.
That is 4 percent under the $2,873 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.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| Under $2,400 | 1 |
| $2,400 to $2,500 | 0 |
| $2,500 to $2,600 | 1 |
| $2,600 to $2,700 | 1 |
| $2,700 to $2,800 | 2 |
| $2,800 to $2,900 | 1 |
| $2,900 to $3,000 | 1 |
All 7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tyler | 2 | $2,589 | $1,080/mo |
| Abilene | 1 | $2,816 | $940/mo |
| Bryan | 1 | $2,521 | $1,140/mo |
| Celina | 1 | $2,613 | $1,990/mo |
| Dallas | 1 | $2,757 | $1,530/mo |
| El Paso | 1 | $2,968 | $1,020/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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