The median advertised pay for a travel PCU (progressive care unit) contract in Delaware is $2,597 per week, with the middle half between $2,432 and $2,601. Measured across 5 active travel PCU contracts in Delaware at 2 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home. With only 5 open contracts in Delaware, treat that median as an indication rather than a rate: the contracts below are the useful part of this page.
That is 15 percent over the $2,252 national median for travel PCU contracts.
Delaware 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 |
|---|---|
| $2,400 to $2,450 | 2 |
| $2,450 to $2,500 | 0 |
| $2,500 to $2,550 | 0 |
| $2,550 to $2,600 | 1 |
| $2,600 to $2,650 | 2 |
| $2,650 to $2,700 | 0 |
All 5 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Delaware has the 20th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 0 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 2 percent over, while goods sit 4 percent under and services 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newark | 3 | $2,601 | $1,490/mo |
| Dover | 2 | $2,432 | $1,175/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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