The median advertised pay for a travel CVICU (cardiovascular intensive care unit) contract in West Virginia is $2,410 per week, with the middle half between $2,218 and $2,577. Measured across 3 active travel CVICU contracts in West Virginia at 2 facilities, as of 2026-10-30.
Advertised weekly totals before tax, usually including tax-free stipends; for almost all postings the top of an advertised range. Not take-home. With only 3 open contracts in West Virginia, treat that median as an indication rather than a rate: the contracts below are the useful part of this page.
That is 2 percent under the $2,467 national median for travel CVICU contracts.
West 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 $2,100 | 1 |
| $2,100 to $2,200 | 0 |
| $2,200 to $2,300 | 0 |
| $2,300 to $2,400 | 0 |
| $2,400 to $2,500 | 1 |
| $2,500 to $2,600 | 0 |
| $2,600 to $2,700 | 0 |
| $2,700 and up | 1 |
All 3 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
West Virginia has the 43th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 11 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 46 percent under, while goods sit 3 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.
| Metro | Open contracts | Median weekly | Rent, 1 bed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parkersburg | 2 | $2,577 | $770/mo |
| Morgantown | 1 | $2,027 | $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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