The median advertised pay for a travel ICU (intensive care unit) contract in Florida is $1,874 per week, with the middle half between $1,853 and $1,895. Measured across 6 active travel ICU contracts in Florida 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 Florida, treat that median as an indication rather than a rate: the contracts below are the useful part of this page.
That is 19 percent under the $2,310 national median for travel ICU contracts.
Florida 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 |
|---|---|
| $1,800 to $1,850 | 0 |
| $1,850 to $1,900 | 5 |
| $1,900 to $1,950 | 0 |
| $1,950 to $2,000 | 0 |
| $2,000 to $2,050 | 0 |
| $2,050 to $2,100 | 0 |
| $2,100 and up | 1 |
All 6 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Florida has the 11th 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 22 percent over, while goods sit 2 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.
| Metro | Open contracts | Median weekly | Rent, 1 bed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Lauderdale | 2 | $1,853 | $1,930/mo |
| Deerfield Beach | 1 | $1,853 | $2,005/mo |
| Lake Placid | 1 | $1,895 | $1,030/mo |
| Tallahassee | 1 | $2,136 | $1,180/mo |
| Tampa | 1 | $1,895 | $1,880/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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