The median advertised pay for a travel PCU (progressive care unit) contract in Nebraska is $2,287 per week, with the middle half between $2,232 and $2,729. Measured across 19 active travel PCU contracts in Nebraska at 6 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 1 percent over the $2,268 national median for travel PCU contracts.
Nebraska 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 $2,200 | 1 |
| $2,200 to $2,350 | 10 |
| $2,350 to $2,500 | 3 |
| $2,500 to $2,650 | 0 |
| $2,650 to $2,800 | 0 |
| $2,800 to $2,950 | 0 |
| $2,950 to $3,100 | 5 |
All 19 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Nebraska has the 41th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 10 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 25 percent under, while goods sit 6 percent under and services 7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Omaha | 12 | $2,284 | $1,105/mo |
| Kearney | 6 | $2,358 | — |
| Grand Island | 1 | $2,152 | $920/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 Nebraska.
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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