The median advertised pay for a travel ICU (intensive care unit) contract in Connecticut is $2,462 per week, with the middle half between $2,359 and $2,614. Measured across 10 active travel ICU contracts in Connecticut at 5 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 6 percent over the $2,325 national median for travel ICU contracts.
Connecticut 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 $2,350 | 2 |
| $2,350 to $2,500 | 3 |
| $2,500 to $2,650 | 3 |
| $2,650 to $2,800 | 0 |
| $2,800 to $2,950 | 0 |
| $2,950 to $3,100 | 2 |
All 10 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Connecticut has the 10th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 4 percent over the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 17 percent over, while goods sit 3 percent under and services 3 percent over. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Farmington | 3 | $2,520 | $1,780/mo |
| New Haven | 3 | $2,953 | $1,600/mo |
| Hartford | 2 | $2,381 | $1,220/mo |
| Bridgeport | 1 | $2,261 | $1,510/mo |
| Bristol | 1 | $2,366 | $1,240/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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Drawn from the postings that state a requirement, which is not all of them, so each figure carries the number it was measured from. Your recruiter confirms the specifics for a given contract before submission.
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