The median advertised pay for a travel PCU (progressive care unit) contract in Colorado is $2,011 per week, with the middle half between $1,997 and $2,292. Measured across 14 active travel PCU contracts in Colorado at 6 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 11 percent under the $2,268 national median for travel PCU contracts.
Colorado 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 |
|---|---|
| Under $1,900 | 1 |
| $1,900 to $2,050 | 7 |
| $2,050 to $2,200 | 0 |
| $2,200 to $2,350 | 3 |
| $2,350 to $2,500 | 0 |
| $2,500 to $2,650 | 1 |
| $2,650 to $2,800 | 2 |
All 14 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Colorado has the 13th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 3 percent over the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 27 percent over, while goods sit 1 percent under and services 0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wheat Ridge | 5 | $1,997 | $1,660/mo |
| Denver | 4 | $1,984 | $1,820/mo |
| Aspen | 2 | $2,686 | $2,020/mo |
| Aurora | 1 | $2,685 | $1,750/mo |
| Colorado Springs | 1 | $2,297 | $1,470/mo |
| Greeley | 1 | $2,260 | $1,200/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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Drawn from the postings that state a requirement, which is not all of them, so each figure carries the number it was measured from. Your recruiter confirms the specifics for a given contract before submission.
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