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 $2,226 and $2,501. Measured across 17 active travel ICU contracts in New York at 9 facilities, as of 2026-10-30.
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 4 percent under the $2,442 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, and the compact checker tells you whether yours covers you here.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| $2,100 to $2,150 | 0 |
| $2,150 to $2,200 | 3 |
| $2,200 to $2,250 | 4 |
| $2,250 to $2,300 | 1 |
| $2,300 to $2,350 | 1 |
| $2,350 to $2,400 | 0 |
| $2,400 and up | 8 |
All 17 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 | 4 | $2,227 | $1,090/mo |
| Geneva | 3 | $2,176 | — |
| Flushing | 2 | $2,515 | — |
| Newark | 2 | $2,287 | — |
| Schenectady | 2 | $2,484 | $1,230/mo |
| Utica | 2 | $2,483 | $980/mo |
| Glens Falls | 1 | $2,279 | $1,050/mo |
| New York | 1 | $2,539 | $2,720/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 0.5 percent, from $2,329 to $2,317 a week. Measured against the seven days before it, across 18 open postings, 2026-10-17 to 2026-10-30.
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