The median advertised pay for a travel PCU (progressive care unit) contract in Florida is $2,145 per week, with the middle half between $1,954 and $2,151. Measured across 13 active travel PCU contracts in Florida at 8 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 7 percent under the $2,309 national median for travel PCU contracts.
Florida 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 |
|---|---|
| Under $1,800 | 1 |
| $1,800 to $1,850 | 0 |
| $1,850 to $1,900 | 2 |
| $1,900 to $1,950 | 0 |
| $1,950 to $2,000 | 2 |
| $2,000 to $2,050 | 1 |
| $2,050 to $2,100 | 0 |
| $2,100 and up | 7 |
All 13 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Florida has the 11th 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 22 percent over, while goods sit 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Myers | 4 | $2,151 | $1,525/mo |
| Melbourne | 4 | $1,914 | $1,710/mo |
| Kissimmee | 2 | $2,145 | $1,710/mo |
| Cape Coral | 1 | $2,151 | $1,610/mo |
| Fort Lauderdale | 1 | $2,038 | $1,930/mo |
| Lake Wales | 1 | $1,771 | $940/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.
Browse the board for current PCU assignments in Florida.
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.
All 45 states with PCU openings