The median advertised pay for a travel ICU (intensive care unit) contract in Kansas is $2,511 per week, with the middle half between $2,313 and $2,678. Measured across 8 active travel ICU contracts in Kansas at 4 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home. With only 8 open contracts in Kansas, treat that median as an indication rather than a rate: the contracts below are the useful part of this page.
That is 9 percent over the $2,310 national median for travel ICU contracts.
Kansas 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 $2,000 | 1 |
| $2,000 to $2,150 | 1 |
| $2,150 to $2,300 | 0 |
| $2,300 to $2,450 | 2 |
| $2,450 to $2,600 | 0 |
| $2,600 to $2,750 | 2 |
| $2,750 to $2,900 | 2 |
All 8 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Kansas has the 42th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 10 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 29 percent under, while goods sit 6 percent under and services 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ottawa | 4 | $2,511 | — |
| Shawnee Mission | 2 | $2,790 | — |
| Kansas City | 1 | $2,107 | $1,080/mo |
| Topeka | 1 | $1,899 | $770/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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