The median advertised pay for a travel PCU (progressive care unit) contract in Connecticut is $2,299 per week, with the middle half between $2,261 and $2,299. Measured across 5 active travel PCU contracts in Connecticut at 2 facilities, as of 2026-10-30.
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 0 percent over the $2,302 national median for travel PCU contracts.
Connecticut 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 |
|---|---|
| $2,200 to $2,250 | 0 |
| $2,250 to $2,300 | 4 |
| $2,300 to $2,350 | 0 |
| $2,350 to $2,400 | 1 |
| $2,400 to $2,450 | 0 |
| $2,450 to $2,500 | 0 |
All 5 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Connecticut has the 10th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 4 percent over the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 17 percent over, while goods sit 3 percent under and services 3 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 Haven | 3 | $2,299 | $1,600/mo |
| Bridgeport | 2 | $2,330 | $1,510/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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