The median advertised pay for a travel ICU (intensive care unit) contract in Massachusetts is $2,669 per week, with the middle half between $2,531 and $2,789. Measured across 22 active travel ICU contracts in Massachusetts at 11 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 9 percent over the $2,453 national median for travel ICU contracts.
Massachusetts has enacted the Nurse Licensure Compact but has not implemented it, so a multistate license does not cover you here yet. You need a Massachusetts license. The compact state list explains which states issue one, and the compact checker tells you whether yours covers you here.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| $2,200 to $2,300 | 4 |
| $2,300 to $2,400 | 0 |
| $2,400 to $2,500 | 0 |
| $2,500 to $2,600 | 4 |
| $2,600 to $2,700 | 3 |
| $2,700 to $2,800 | 7 |
| $2,800 and up | 4 |
All 22 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Massachusetts has the 7th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 6 percent over the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 28 percent over, while goods sit 1 percent under and services 3 percent over. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boston | 6 | $2,639 | $2,600/mo |
| Salem | 6 | $2,635 | $2,140/mo |
| Burlington | 3 | $2,895 | $2,730/mo |
| Gardner | 2 | $2,421 | $1,180/mo |
| Beverly | 1 | $2,783 | $2,180/mo |
| Framingham | 1 | $2,508 | $2,205/mo |
| Milton | 1 | $2,789 | — |
| Needham | 1 | $2,789 | $2,400/mo |
| Weymouth | 1 | $2,705 | $2,180/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 fell 0.7 percent, from $2,659 to $2,641 a week. Measured against the seven days before it, across 23 open postings, 2026-10-18 to 2026-10-31.
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