The median advertised pay for a travel NICU (neonatal intensive care unit) contract in Connecticut is $2,591 per week, with the middle half between $2,575 and $2,642. Measured across 3 active travel NICU contracts in Connecticut at 3 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. With only 3 open contracts in Connecticut, treat that median as an indication rather than a rate: the contracts below are the useful part of this page.
That is 1 percent over the $2,570 national median for travel NICU contracts.
Connecticut 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 |
|---|---|
| $2,500 to $2,550 | 0 |
| $2,550 to $2,600 | 2 |
| $2,600 to $2,650 | 0 |
| $2,650 to $2,700 | 1 |
| $2,700 to $2,750 | 0 |
| $2,750 to $2,800 | 0 |
All 3 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Connecticut has the 10th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 4 percent over the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 17 percent over, while goods sit 3 percent under and services 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greenwich | 1 | $2,591 | $2,515/mo |
| Hartford | 1 | $2,692 | $1,220/mo |
| New Haven | 1 | $2,558 | $1,600/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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