The median advertised pay for a travel ICU (intensive care unit) contract in Idaho is $2,425 per week, with the middle half between $2,263 and $3,029. Measured across 13 active travel ICU contracts in Idaho at 3 facilities, as of 2026-10-30.
Advertised weekly totals before tax, usually including tax-free stipends; for almost all postings the top of an advertised range. Not take-home.
That is 1 percent under the $2,450 national median for travel ICU contracts.
Idaho 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, and the compact checker tells you whether yours covers you here.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| $2,100 to $2,300 | 5 |
| $2,300 to $2,500 | 2 |
| $2,500 to $2,700 | 0 |
| $2,700 to $2,900 | 0 |
| $2,900 to $3,100 | 3 |
| $3,100 to $3,300 | 3 |
All 13 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Idaho has the 29th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 5 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 10 percent under, while goods sit 4 percent under and services 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boise | 6 | $2,824 | $1,535/mo |
| Coeur D'Alene | 6 | $2,589 | $1,230/mo |
| Nampa | 1 | $2,112 | $1,470/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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Over the last seven days the median advertised rate rose 10.1 percent, from $2,363 to $2,602 a week. Measured against the seven days before it, across 13 open postings, 2026-10-17 to 2026-10-30.
This compares advertised rates within one specialty in one state, which is the only cut where a change in the median is likely to mean a change in price rather than a change in which contracts are posted. Where the number of open postings moves sharply, no figure is shown.
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.
All 46 states with ICU openings