The median advertised pay for a travel PCU (progressive care unit) contract in Florida is $1,905 per week, with the middle half between $1,772 and $2,038. Measured across 9 active travel PCU contracts in Florida at 5 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home. With only 9 open contracts in Florida, treat that median as an indication rather than a rate: the contracts below are the useful part of this page.
That is 15 percent under the $2,252 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.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| $1,700 to $1,850 | 3 |
| $1,850 to $2,000 | 3 |
| $2,000 to $2,150 | 1 |
| $2,150 to $2,300 | 0 |
| $2,300 to $2,450 | 1 |
| $2,450 to $2,600 | 0 |
| $2,600 and up | 1 |
All 9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Wales | 2 | $1,772 | $940/mo |
| New Smyrna Beach | 2 | $2,857 | $1,695/mo |
| Sebring | 2 | $1,822 | $950/mo |
| Winter Garden | 2 | $1,905 | $1,990/mo |
| Fort Lauderdale | 1 | $2,038 | $1,930/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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