The median advertised pay for a travel ICU (intensive care unit) contract in Ohio is $2,546 per week, with the middle half between $2,168 and $2,946. Measured across 12 active travel ICU contracts in Ohio at 8 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 over the $2,450 national median for travel ICU contracts.
Ohio 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 |
|---|---|
| $2,100 to $2,250 | 6 |
| $2,250 to $2,400 | 0 |
| $2,400 to $2,550 | 0 |
| $2,550 to $2,700 | 0 |
| $2,700 to $2,850 | 1 |
| $2,850 to $3,000 | 4 |
| $3,000 and up | 1 |
All 12 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Ohio has the 35th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 7 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 27 percent under, while goods sit 6 percent under and services 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dayton | 4 | $2,925 | $780/mo |
| Columbus | 2 | $2,206 | $1,080/mo |
| Franklin | 2 | $2,972 | $950/mo |
| Cleveland | 1 | $2,174 | $860/mo |
| Greenville | 1 | $2,134 | — |
| Saint Marys | 1 | $2,170 | — |
| Toledo | 1 | $2,157 | $810/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 rose 3.0 percent, from $2,333 to $2,403 a week. Measured against the seven days before it, across 13 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