Travel NICU Nurse Pay in Connecticut

The median advertised pay for a travel NICU (neonatal intensive care unit) contract in Connecticut is $2,643 per week, with the middle half between $2,593 and $2,685. Measured across 4 active travel NICU contracts in Connecticut at 2 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.

Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home. With only 4 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 5 percent over the $2,509 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.

Where every open NICU contract falls

Weekly rateOpen contracts
$2,500 to $2,5500
$2,550 to $2,6001
$2,600 to $2,6501
$2,650 to $2,7002
$2,700 to $2,7500
$2,750 to $2,8000

All 4 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.

NICU pay by metro in Connecticut

MetroOpen contractsMedian weeklyRent, 1 bed
Hartford3$2,683$1,220/mo
New Haven1$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.

Open NICU contracts in Connecticut

Browse the board for current NICU assignments in Connecticut.

NICU pay in other states

All 29 states with NICU openings

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Common questions

How much does a travel NICU nurse make in Connecticut?
The median advertised pay for a travel NICU contract in Connecticut is $2,643 a week, with the middle half of contracts between $2,593 and $2,685. Measured across 4 active travel NICU contracts in Connecticut at 2 facilities, as of 2026-09-15. These are advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends, not take-home.
Where does this NICU pay figure come from?
From the travel contracts currently posted on CircleRN, not from an industry survey or an estimate. No federal source publishes pay by nursing specialty: the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports registered nurses as a single occupation, so there is no official median for an ICU or a labor and delivery nurse. We publish the median rather than the average because one crisis-rate assignment moves an average enough to misrepresent the market.