The median advertised pay for a travel ICU (intensive care unit) contract in Colorado is $2,441 per week, with the middle half between $2,271 and $2,554. Measured across 6 active travel ICU contracts in Colorado at 5 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home. With only 6 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 6 percent over the $2,310 national median for travel ICU 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.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| $2,200 to $2,250 | 2 |
| $2,250 to $2,300 | 0 |
| $2,300 to $2,350 | 0 |
| $2,350 to $2,400 | 0 |
| $2,400 to $2,450 | 1 |
| $2,450 to $2,500 | 1 |
| $2,500 and up | 2 |
All 6 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.
| Metro | Open contracts | Median weekly | Rent, 1 bed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grand Junction | 2 | $2,226 | $970/mo |
| Aurora | 1 | $2,402 | $1,750/mo |
| Delta | 1 | $2,480 | — |
| Glenwood Springs | 1 | $2,606 | $1,230/mo |
| Parker | 1 | $2,578 | $2,010/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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