The median advertised pay for a travel ICU (intensive care unit) contract in Georgia is $2,116 per week, with the middle half between $1,909 and $2,273. Measured across 30 active travel ICU contracts in Georgia at 15 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 9 percent under the $2,324 national median for travel ICU contracts.
Georgia 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 |
|---|---|
| Under $1,800 | 3 |
| $1,800 to $1,950 | 6 |
| $1,950 to $2,100 | 4 |
| $2,100 to $2,250 | 4 |
| $2,250 to $2,400 | 7 |
| $2,400 to $2,550 | 2 |
| $2,550 to $2,700 | 1 |
| $2,700 and up | 3 |
All 30 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Georgia has the 27th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 4 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 11 percent under, while goods sit 1 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.
| Metro | Open contracts | Median weekly | Rent, 1 bed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atlanta | 12 | $1,971 | $1,865/mo |
| Rome | 4 | $3,017 | $910/mo |
| Valdosta | 3 | $1,996 | $880/mo |
| Lawrenceville | 2 | $1,863 | $1,860/mo |
| Sandy Springs | 2 | $2,273 | $2,120/mo |
| Augusta | 1 | $2,117 | $975/mo |
| Austell | 1 | $1,747 | $1,485/mo |
| Cartersville | 1 | $2,836 | $1,265/mo |
| Decatur | 1 | $2,273 | $1,550/mo |
| Jasper | 1 | $2,103 | — |
| Roswell | 1 | $1,748 | $1,955/mo |
| Warner Robins | 1 | $2,115 | $1,205/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.
Browse the board for current ICU assignments in Georgia.
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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