The median advertised pay for a travel CVICU (cardiovascular intensive care unit) contract in Indiana is $1,979 per week, with the middle half between $1,971 and $1,979. Measured across 5 active travel CVICU contracts in Indiana at 2 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home. With only 5 open contracts in Indiana, treat that median as an indication rather than a rate: the contracts below are the useful part of this page.
That is 20 percent under the $2,476 national median for travel CVICU contracts.
Indiana 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 $1,900 | 1 |
| $1,900 to $1,950 | 0 |
| $1,950 to $2,000 | 3 |
| $2,000 to $2,050 | 0 |
| $2,050 to $2,100 | 0 |
| $2,100 to $2,150 | 1 |
| $2,150 to $2,200 | 0 |
All 5 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Indiana has the 34th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 7 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 26 percent under, while goods sit 4 percent under and services 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indianapolis | 3 | $1,979 | $1,090/mo |
| Evansville | 2 | $1,975 | $830/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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