Where does this CVICU pay figure come from?

From the travel contracts currently posted on CircleRN, not from an industry survey or an estimate. No federal source publishes pay by nursing specialty: the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports registered nurses as a single occupation, so there is no official median for an ICU or a labor and delivery nurse. We publish the median rather than the average because one crisis-rate assignment moves an average enough to misrepresent the market.

Travel CVICU Nurse Pay in Colorado

The median advertised pay for a travel CVICU (cardiovascular intensive care unit) contract in Colorado is $2,562 per week, with the middle half between $2,530 and $2,575. Measured across 4 active travel CVICU contracts in Colorado at 2 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.

Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home. With only 4 open contracts in Colorado, treat that median as an indication rather than a rate: the contracts below are the useful part of this page.

That is 3 percent over the $2,476 national median for travel CVICU contracts.

Colorado 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.

Where every open CVICU contract falls

Weekly rate	Open contracts
$2,400 to $2,450	0
$2,450 to $2,500	1
$2,500 to $2,550	0
$2,550 to $2,600	3
$2,600 to $2,650	0
$2,650 to $2,700	0

All 4 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.

Colorado has the 13th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 3 percent over the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 27 percent over, 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.

CVICU pay by metro in Colorado

Metro	Open contracts	Median weekly	Rent, 1 bed
Denver	3	$2,569	$1,820/mo
Grand Junction	1	$2,456	$970/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.

Open CVICU contracts in Colorado

Browse the board for current CVICU assignments in Colorado.

CVICU pay in other states

Travel CVICU pay in California — $2,962/week median across 14 contracts
Travel CVICU pay in Illinois — $2,791/week median across 15 contracts
Travel CVICU pay in Arizona — $2,128/week median across 10 contracts

All 33 states with CVICU openings

Travel CVICU pay nationally
Travel nursing in Colorado
Open travel assignments
How we measure this: the sources, the sample and what the figures do not cover

Common questions

How much does a travel CVICU nurse make in Colorado?: The median advertised pay for a travel CVICU contract in Colorado is $2,562 a week, with the middle half of contracts between $2,530 and $2,575. Measured across 4 active travel CVICU contracts in Colorado at 2 facilities, as of 2026-09-15. These are advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends, not take-home.
Where does this CVICU pay figure come from?: From the travel contracts currently posted on CircleRN, not from an industry survey or an estimate. No federal source publishes pay by nursing specialty: the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports registered nurses as a single occupation, so there is no official median for an ICU or a labor and delivery nurse. We publish the median rather than the average because one crisis-rate assignment moves an average enough to misrepresent the market.