The median advertised pay for a travel PICU (pediatric intensive care unit) contract in New Jersey is $2,779 per week, with the middle half between $2,779 and $2,831. Measured across 5 active travel PICU contracts in New Jersey at 3 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home. With only 5 open contracts in New Jersey, 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 $2,706 national median for travel PICU contracts.
New Jersey 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 |
|---|---|
| $2,700 to $2,750 | 1 |
| $2,750 to $2,800 | 2 |
| $2,800 to $2,850 | 1 |
| $2,850 to $2,900 | 0 |
| $2,900 to $2,950 | 1 |
| $2,950 to $3,000 | 0 |
All 5 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
New Jersey has the 4th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 9 percent over the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 34 percent over, while goods sit 7 percent over and services 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Brunswick | 2 | $2,779 | $1,630/mo |
| Newark | 2 | $2,870 | $1,940/mo |
| Paramus | 1 | $2,717 | $2,710/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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