The median advertised pay for a travel PICU (pediatric intensive care unit) contract in Arizona is $2,235 per week, with the middle half between $2,226 and $2,464. Measured across 9 active travel PICU contracts in Arizona at 3 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home. With only 9 open contracts in Arizona, treat that median as an indication rather than a rate: the contracts below are the useful part of this page.
That is 17 percent under the $2,696 national median for travel PICU contracts.
Arizona 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.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| $2,200 to $2,250 | 6 |
| $2,250 to $2,300 | 0 |
| $2,300 to $2,350 | 0 |
| $2,350 to $2,400 | 0 |
| $2,400 to $2,450 | 0 |
| $2,450 to $2,500 | 1 |
| $2,500 and up | 2 |
All 9 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Arizona has the 17th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 1 percent over the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 7 percent over, while goods sit 5 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.
| Metro | Open contracts | Median weekly | Rent, 1 bed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mesa | 4 | $2,229 | $1,660/mo |
| Phoenix | 3 | $2,583 | $1,625/mo |
| Tucson | 2 | $2,233 | $1,050/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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