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 Delaware

The median advertised pay for a travel ICU (intensive care unit) contract in Delaware is $2,556 per week, with the middle half between $2,546 and $2,680. Measured across 9 active travel ICU contracts in Delaware at 3 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.

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

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

Delaware 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
$2,500 to $2,550	4
$2,550 to $2,600	2
$2,600 to $2,650	0
$2,650 to $2,700	2
$2,700 to $2,750	1
$2,750 to $2,800	0

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

Delaware has the 20th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 0 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 2 percent over, while goods sit 4 percent under and services 1 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.

ICU pay by metro in Delaware

Metro	Open contracts	Median weekly	Rent, 1 bed
Dover	4	$2,545	$1,175/mo
Newark	3	$2,690	$1,490/mo
Milford	2	$2,558	$1,040/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 Delaware

Browse the board for current ICU assignments in Delaware.

ICU pay in other states

Travel ICU pay in California — $2,629/week median across 82 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 12 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 Delaware
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 Delaware?: The median advertised pay for a travel ICU contract in Delaware is $2,556 a week, with the middle half of contracts between $2,546 and $2,680. Measured across 9 active travel ICU contracts in Delaware at 3 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.