Travel PACU Nurse Pay in Colorado

The median advertised pay for a travel PACU (post-anesthesia care unit) contract in Colorado is $2,414 per week, with the middle half between $2,390 and $2,601. Measured across 4 active travel PACU contracts in Colorado at 3 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.

Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home. With only 4 open contracts in Colorado, treat that median as an indication rather than a rate: the contracts below are the useful part of this page.

That is 3 percent over the $2,353 national median for travel PACU contracts.

Colorado 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 PACU contract falls

Weekly rateOpen contracts
$2,300 to $2,4001
$2,400 to $2,5002
$2,500 to $2,6000
$2,600 to $2,7000
$2,700 to $2,8000
$2,800 to $2,9000
$2,900 and up1

All 4 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.

Colorado has the 13th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 3 percent over the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 27 percent over, while goods sit 1 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.

PACU pay by metro in Colorado

MetroOpen contractsMedian weeklyRent, 1 bed
Loveland2$2,414$1,405/mo
Greeley1$2,335$1,200/mo
Lamar1$3,148—

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 PACU contracts in Colorado

Browse the board for current PACU assignments in Colorado.

PACU pay in other states

All 31 states with PACU openings

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Common questions

How much does a travel PACU nurse make in Colorado?
The median advertised pay for a travel PACU contract in Colorado is $2,414 a week, with the middle half of contracts between $2,390 and $2,601. Measured across 4 active travel PACU contracts in Colorado at 3 facilities, as of 2026-09-15. These are advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends, not take-home.
Where does this PACU 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.