Where does this ICU 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 ICU Nurse Pay in Alabama

The median advertised pay for a travel ICU (intensive care unit) contract in Alabama is $2,064 per week, with the middle half between $1,952 and $2,172. Measured across 9 active travel ICU contracts in Alabama at 2 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.

Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home. With only 9 open contracts in Alabama, treat that median as an indication rather than a rate: the contracts below are the useful part of this page.

That is 11 percent under the $2,310 national median for travel ICU contracts.

Alabama 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 ICU contract falls

Weekly rate	Open contracts
$1,900 to $2,000	3
$2,000 to $2,100	3
$2,100 to $2,200	1
$2,200 to $2,300	0
$2,300 to $2,400	0
$2,400 to $2,500	0
$2,500 and up	2

All 9 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.

Alabama has the 45th 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 38 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.

ICU pay by metro in Alabama

Metro	Open contracts	Median weekly	Rent, 1 bed
Montgomery	7	$2,064	$880/mo
Birmingham	2	$2,062	$1,080/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 ICU contracts in Alabama

Browse the board for current ICU assignments in Alabama.

ICU pay in other states

Travel ICU pay in California — $2,626/week median across 80 contracts
Travel ICU pay in Massachusetts — $2,548/week median across 38 contracts
Travel ICU pay in Louisiana — $2,460/week median across 12 contracts
Travel ICU pay in Connecticut — $2,392/week median across 13 contracts
Travel ICU pay in New York — $2,344/week median across 12 contracts
Travel ICU pay in Oklahoma — $2,332/week median across 11 contracts
Travel ICU pay in Illinois — $2,326/week median across 17 contracts
Travel ICU pay in Wisconsin — $2,276/week median across 10 contracts
Travel ICU pay in Ohio — $2,265/week median across 18 contracts

All 46 states with ICU openings

Travel ICU pay nationally
Travel ICU nurse pay
Travel nursing in Alabama
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 ICU nurse make in Alabama?: The median advertised pay for a travel ICU contract in Alabama is $2,064 a week, with the middle half of contracts between $1,952 and $2,172. Measured across 9 active travel ICU contracts in Alabama 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 ICU 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.