The median advertised pay for a travel PICU (pediatric intensive care unit) contract in New Jersey is $2,820 per week, with the middle half between $2,815 and $2,826. Measured across 2 active travel PICU contracts in New Jersey 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 New Jersey, treat that median as an indication rather than a rate: the contracts below are the useful part of this page.
That is 5 percent over the $2,680 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, and the compact checker tells you whether yours covers you here.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| $2,800 to $2,850 | 2 |
| $2,850 to $2,900 | 0 |
| $2,900 to $2,950 | 0 |
| $2,950 to $3,000 | 0 |
| $3,000 to $3,050 | 0 |
| $3,050 to $3,100 | 0 |
All 2 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 | 1 | $2,810 | $1,630/mo |
| Newark | 1 | $2,831 | $1,940/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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