The median advertised pay for a travel Cath Lab (cardiac catheterization lab) contract in Virginia is $3,340 per week, with the middle half between $3,127 and $3,708. Measured across 7 active travel Cath Lab contracts in Virginia at 5 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 15 percent over the $2,902 national median for travel Cath Lab contracts.
Virginia 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 $2,900 | 1 |
| $2,900 to $3,050 | 0 |
| $3,050 to $3,200 | 2 |
| $3,200 to $3,350 | 1 |
| $3,350 to $3,500 | 0 |
| $3,500 to $3,650 | 0 |
| $3,650 to $3,800 | 3 |
All 7 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Virginia has the 16th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 1 percent over the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 7 percent over, while goods sit 0 percent over and services 0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norfolk | 4 | $3,708 | $1,400/mo |
| Alexandria | 1 | $3,082 | $2,190/mo |
| Charlottesville | 1 | $2,714 | $1,410/mo |
| Fredericksburg | 1 | $3,173 | $1,785/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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