The median advertised pay for a travel ICU (intensive care unit) contract in Wisconsin is $2,276 per week, with the middle half between $2,245 and $2,362. Measured across 10 active travel ICU contracts in Wisconsin at 8 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 1 percent under the $2,307 national median for travel ICU contracts.
Wisconsin 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 |
|---|---|
| $2,200 to $2,250 | 3 |
| $2,250 to $2,300 | 3 |
| $2,300 to $2,350 | 1 |
| $2,350 to $2,400 | 1 |
| $2,400 to $2,450 | 0 |
| $2,450 to $2,500 | 1 |
| $2,500 and up | 1 |
All 10 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Wisconsin has the 32th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 6 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 21 percent under, while goods sit 6 percent under and services 0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Madison | 2 | $2,420 | $1,280/mo |
| Portage | 2 | $2,208 | — |
| Baraboo | 1 | $2,269 | — |
| Janesville | 1 | $2,269 | $880/mo |
| Marshfield | 1 | $2,310 | — |
| Menomonee Falls | 1 | $2,237 | — |
| Pleasant Prairie | 1 | $2,997 | — |
| Woodruff | 1 | $2,284 | — |
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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