The median advertised pay for a travel ICU (intensive care unit) contract in New York is $2,347 per week, with the middle half between $2,290 and $2,498. Measured across 11 active travel ICU contracts in New York at 8 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 1 percent over the $2,332 national median for travel ICU contracts.
New York is not a Nurse Licensure Compact state, so you need a New York license to work here even if you hold a multistate license. The compact state list explains which states issue one.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| Under $2,100 | 1 |
| $2,100 to $2,150 | 0 |
| $2,150 to $2,200 | 1 |
| $2,200 to $2,250 | 0 |
| $2,250 to $2,300 | 1 |
| $2,300 to $2,350 | 3 |
| $2,350 to $2,400 | 1 |
| $2,400 and up | 4 |
All 11 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
New York has the 5th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 8 percent over the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 22 percent over, while goods sit 7 percent over and services 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rochester | 3 | $2,269 | $1,090/mo |
| Geneva | 2 | $2,254 | — |
| New York | 2 | $2,539 | $2,720/mo |
| Bronx | 1 | $2,340 | — |
| Newark | 1 | $2,347 | — |
| Schenectady | 1 | $2,523 | $1,230/mo |
| Utica | 1 | $2,473 | $980/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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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.
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