Travel PACU Nurse Pay in Maine

The median advertised pay for a travel PACU (post-anesthesia care unit) contract in Maine is $2,049 per week, with the middle half between $2,016 and $2,081. Measured across 2 active travel PACU contracts in Maine at 1 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.

Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home. With only 2 open contracts in Maine, treat that median as an indication rather than a rate: the contracts below are the useful part of this page.

That is 13 percent under the $2,353 national median for travel PACU contracts.

Maine 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
$1,900 to $1,9500
$1,950 to $2,0001
$2,000 to $2,0500
$2,050 to $2,1000
$2,100 to $2,1501
$2,150 to $2,2000

All 2 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.

Maine has the 26th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 3 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 21 percent under, 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.

Open PACU contracts in Maine

Browse the board for current PACU assignments in Maine.

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 Maine?
The median advertised pay for a travel PACU contract in Maine is $2,049 a week, with the middle half of contracts between $2,016 and $2,081. Measured across 2 active travel PACU contracts in Maine at 1 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.