The median advertised pay for a travel ICU (intensive care unit) contract in Kansas is $1,932 per week, with the middle half between $1,913 and $2,081. Measured across 9 active travel ICU contracts in Kansas at 4 facilities, as of 2026-10-31.
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 21 percent under the $2,455 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, and the compact checker tells you whether yours covers you here.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| Under $1,900 | 1 |
| $1,900 to $2,050 | 4 |
| $2,050 to $2,200 | 2 |
| $2,200 to $2,350 | 0 |
| $2,350 to $2,500 | 0 |
| $2,500 to $2,650 | 0 |
| $2,650 to $2,800 | 0 |
| $2,800 and up | 2 |
All 9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Topeka | 3 | $1,913 | $770/mo |
| Garden City | 2 | $1,932 | — |
| Hays | 2 | $2,875 | $690/mo |
| Wichita | 2 | $2,081 | $760/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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