The median advertised pay for a travel Pediatrics contract in California is $2,768 per week, with the middle half between $2,701 and $2,829. Measured across 4 active travel Pediatrics contracts in California at 4 facilities, as of 2026-10-30.
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 4 open contracts in California, treat that median as an indication rather than a rate: the contracts below are the useful part of this page.
That is 19 percent over the $2,321 national median for travel Pediatrics contracts.
California is not a Nurse Licensure Compact state, so you need a California 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 |
|---|---|
| $2,500 to $2,550 | 1 |
| $2,550 to $2,600 | 0 |
| $2,600 to $2,650 | 0 |
| $2,650 to $2,700 | 0 |
| $2,700 to $2,750 | 0 |
| $2,750 to $2,800 | 2 |
| $2,800 and up | 1 |
All 4 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
California has the highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 11 percent over the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 54 percent over, while goods sit 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bakersfield | 1 | $2,774 | $1,060/mo |
| Palm Springs | 1 | $2,992 | $1,860/mo |
| Sacramento | 1 | $2,762 | $1,630/mo |
| San Francisco | 1 | $2,521 | $2,680/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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