The median advertised pay for a travel ICU (intensive care unit) contract in Virginia is $2,205 per week, with the middle half between $2,098 and $2,461. Measured across 17 active travel ICU contracts in Virginia at 13 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 5 percent under the $2,317 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.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| $1,900 to $2,000 | 3 |
| $2,000 to $2,100 | 2 |
| $2,100 to $2,200 | 3 |
| $2,200 to $2,300 | 2 |
| $2,300 to $2,400 | 1 |
| $2,400 to $2,500 | 6 |
All 17 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charlottesville | 3 | $2,098 | $1,410/mo |
| Harrisonburg | 2 | $2,461 | $1,100/mo |
| Norfolk | 2 | $2,461 | $1,400/mo |
| Roanoke | 2 | $2,383 | $910/mo |
| Alexandria | 1 | $1,960 | $2,190/mo |
| Chesapeake | 1 | $2,199 | $1,660/mo |
| Falls Church | 1 | $1,971 | $2,220/mo |
| Fishersville | 1 | $1,993 | — |
| Fredericksburg | 1 | $2,205 | $1,785/mo |
| Lynchburg | 1 | $2,172 | $1,020/mo |
| Mechanicsville | 1 | $2,111 | $1,810/mo |
| Newport News | 1 | $2,276 | $1,320/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.
Browse the board for current ICU assignments in Virginia.
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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