The median advertised pay for a travel ICU (intensive care unit) contract in Virginia is $2,300 per week, with the middle half between $2,201 and $2,456. Measured across 22 active travel ICU contracts in Virginia 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 6 percent under the $2,446 national median for travel ICU contracts.
Virginia 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 $2,100 | 2 |
| $2,100 to $2,150 | 2 |
| $2,150 to $2,200 | 2 |
| $2,200 to $2,250 | 3 |
| $2,250 to $2,300 | 2 |
| $2,300 to $2,350 | 1 |
| $2,350 to $2,400 | 2 |
| $2,400 and up | 8 |
All 22 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Virginia has the 16th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 1 percent over the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 7 percent over, while goods sit 0 percent over and services 0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roanoke | 4 | $2,265 | $910/mo |
| Charlottesville | 3 | $2,489 | $1,410/mo |
| Newport News | 3 | $2,276 | $1,320/mo |
| Norfolk | 3 | $2,461 | $1,400/mo |
| Richmond | 3 | $2,133 | $1,480/mo |
| Harrisonburg | 2 | $2,476 | $1,100/mo |
| Alexandria | 1 | $2,382 | $2,190/mo |
| Chesapeake | 1 | $2,199 | $1,660/mo |
| Falls Church | 1 | $2,382 | $2,220/mo |
| Lynchburg | 1 | $2,180 | $1,020/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 1.2 percent, from $2,318 to $2,290 a week. Measured against the seven days before it, across 20 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