Travel CVICU Nurse Pay in Kentucky

The median advertised pay for a travel CVICU (cardiovascular intensive care unit) contract in Kentucky is $2,282 per week, with the middle half between $2,276 and $2,288. Measured across 2 active travel CVICU contracts in Kentucky at 2 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.

Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home. With only 2 open contracts in Kentucky, treat that median as an indication rather than a rate: the contracts below are the useful part of this page.

That is 8 percent under the $2,476 national median for travel CVICU contracts.

Kentucky 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 rateOpen contracts
$2,200 to $2,2500
$2,250 to $2,3002
$2,300 to $2,3500
$2,350 to $2,4000
$2,400 to $2,4500
$2,450 to $2,5000

All 2 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.

Kentucky has the 40th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 10 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 36 percent under, while goods sit 4 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.

CVICU pay by metro in Kentucky

MetroOpen contractsMedian weeklyRent, 1 bed
Bowling Green1$2,270$925/mo
Lexington1$2,294$1,060/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 Kentucky

Browse the board for current CVICU assignments in Kentucky.

CVICU pay in other states

All 33 states with CVICU openings

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Common questions

How much does a travel CVICU nurse make in Kentucky?
The median advertised pay for a travel CVICU contract in Kentucky is $2,282 a week, with the middle half of contracts between $2,276 and $2,288. Measured across 2 active travel CVICU contracts in Kentucky 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.