The median advertised pay for a travel PCU (progressive care unit) contract in Michigan is $2,309 per week, with the middle half between $2,285 and $2,358. Measured across 6 active travel PCU contracts in Michigan at 4 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 $2,301 national median for travel PCU contracts.
Michigan is not a Nurse Licensure Compact state, so you need a Michigan license to work here even if you hold a multistate license. 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 $2,200 | 1 |
| $2,200 to $2,300 | 2 |
| $2,300 to $2,400 | 2 |
| $2,400 to $2,500 | 0 |
| $2,500 to $2,600 | 0 |
| $2,600 to $2,700 | 0 |
| $2,700 to $2,800 | 0 |
| $2,800 and up | 1 |
All 6 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Michigan has the 28th 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 18 percent under, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kalamazoo | 2 | $2,260 | $960/mo |
| Petoskey | 2 | $2,327 | — |
| Flint | 1 | $2,284 | $810/mo |
| Monroe | 1 | $2,993 | $985/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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