The median advertised pay for a travel PCU (progressive care unit) contract in Georgia is $2,133 per week, with the middle half between $1,916 and $2,276. Measured across 38 active travel PCU contracts in Georgia at 14 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 6 percent under the $2,268 national median for travel PCU contracts.
Georgia 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 $1,800 | 4 |
| $1,800 to $1,950 | 8 |
| $1,950 to $2,100 | 4 |
| $2,100 to $2,250 | 10 |
| $2,250 to $2,400 | 6 |
| $2,400 to $2,550 | 0 |
| $2,550 to $2,700 | 6 |
All 38 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Georgia has the 27th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 4 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 11 percent under, while goods sit 1 percent under and services 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atlanta | 17 | $1,971 | $1,865/mo |
| Augusta | 7 | $2,147 | $975/mo |
| Decatur | 4 | $2,276 | $1,550/mo |
| Albany | 2 | $2,319 | $940/mo |
| Savannah | 2 | $2,070 | $1,450/mo |
| Athens | 1 | $2,145 | $1,070/mo |
| Cartersville | 1 | $2,132 | $1,265/mo |
| Cumming | 1 | $1,733 | $1,940/mo |
| Lagrange | 1 | $1,747 | $970/mo |
| Roswell | 1 | $1,748 | $1,955/mo |
| Valdosta | 1 | $1,839 | $880/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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