The median advertised pay for a travel ICU (intensive care unit) contract in Indiana is $2,101 per week, with the middle half between $2,003 and $2,208. Measured across 7 active travel ICU contracts in Indiana at 7 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home. With only 7 open contracts in Indiana, treat that median as an indication rather than a rate: the contracts below are the useful part of this page.
That is 9 percent under the $2,310 national median for travel ICU contracts.
Indiana 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 |
|---|---|
| $1,900 to $2,000 | 2 |
| $2,000 to $2,100 | 1 |
| $2,100 to $2,200 | 2 |
| $2,200 to $2,300 | 1 |
| $2,300 to $2,400 | 0 |
| $2,400 to $2,500 | 0 |
| $2,500 and up | 1 |
All 7 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Indiana has the 34th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 7 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 26 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anderson | 1 | $1,946 | $795/mo |
| Avon | 1 | $2,963 | $1,370/mo |
| East Chicago | 1 | $2,053 | $770/mo |
| Evansville | 1 | $1,952 | $830/mo |
| Franklin | 1 | $2,162 | $1,050/mo |
| Indianapolis | 1 | $2,101 | $1,090/mo |
| Muncie | 1 | $2,254 | $800/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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