The median advertised pay for a travel PACU (post-anesthesia care unit) contract in Hawaii is $2,253 per week, with the middle half between $2,214 and $2,291. Measured across 2 active travel PACU contracts in Hawaii at 2 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 2 open contracts in Hawaii, treat that median as an indication rather than a rate: the contracts below are the useful part of this page.
That is 9 percent under the $2,481 national median for travel PACU contracts.
Hawaii is not a Nurse Licensure Compact state, so you need a Hawaii license to work here even if you hold a multistate license. The compact state list explains which states issue one, and the compact checker tells you whether yours covers you here.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| $2,100 to $2,150 | 0 |
| $2,150 to $2,200 | 1 |
| $2,200 to $2,250 | 0 |
| $2,250 to $2,300 | 0 |
| $2,300 to $2,350 | 1 |
| $2,350 to $2,400 | 0 |
All 2 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Hawaii has the 2th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 10 percent over the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 25 percent over, while goods sit 12 percent over 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hilo | 1 | $2,330 | $1,550/mo |
| Honolulu | 1 | $2,175 | $1,950/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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