Travel PICU Nurse Pay in Ohio

The median advertised pay for a travel PICU (pediatric intensive care unit) contract in Ohio is $2,650 per week, with the middle half between $2,571 and $2,661. Measured across 5 active travel PICU contracts in Ohio 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 Ohio, treat that median as an indication rather than a rate: the contracts below are the useful part of this page.

That is 2 percent under the $2,696 national median for travel PICU contracts.

Ohio 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 PICU contract falls

Weekly rateOpen contracts
$2,500 to $2,5500
$2,550 to $2,6002
$2,600 to $2,6501
$2,650 to $2,7001
$2,700 to $2,7500
$2,750 to $2,8000
$2,800 and up1

All 5 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.

Ohio has the 35th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 7 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 27 percent under, while goods sit 6 percent under and services 1 percent under. 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.

PICU pay by metro in Ohio

MetroOpen contractsMedian weeklyRent, 1 bed
Akron2$2,571$875/mo
Columbus2$2,738$1,080/mo
Cleveland1$2,650$860/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.

Open PICU contracts in Ohio

Browse the board for current PICU assignments in Ohio.

PICU pay in other states

All 22 states with PICU openings

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Common questions

How much does a travel PICU nurse make in Ohio?
The median advertised pay for a travel PICU contract in Ohio is $2,650 a week, with the middle half of contracts between $2,571 and $2,661. Measured across 5 active travel PICU contracts in Ohio at 3 facilities, as of 2026-09-15. These are advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends, not take-home.
Where does this PICU 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.