The median advertised pay for a travel PICU (pediatric intensive care unit) contract in Ohio is $2,722 per week, with the middle half between $2,722 and $3,244. Measured across 9 active travel PICU contracts in Ohio at 3 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.
That is 1 percent over the $2,703 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, and the compact checker tells you whether yours covers you here.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| $2,600 to $2,750 | 5 |
| $2,750 to $2,900 | 1 |
| $2,900 to $3,050 | 0 |
| $3,050 to $3,200 | 0 |
| $3,200 to $3,350 | 2 |
| $3,350 to $3,500 | 0 |
| $3,500 and up | 1 |
All 9 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.
| Metro | Open contracts | Median weekly | Rent, 1 bed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Columbus | 7 | $2,722 | $1,080/mo |
| Akron | 1 | $2,810 | $875/mo |
| Cleveland | 1 | $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.
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