The median advertised pay for a travel PCU (progressive care unit) contract in Ohio is $2,278 per week, with the middle half between $2,254 and $2,802. Measured across 19 active travel PCU contracts in Ohio at 11 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 0 percent over the $2,268 national median for travel PCU contracts.
Ohio 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 $2,100 | 1 |
| $2,100 to $2,250 | 4 |
| $2,250 to $2,400 | 6 |
| $2,400 to $2,550 | 2 |
| $2,550 to $2,700 | 1 |
| $2,700 to $2,850 | 0 |
| $2,850 to $3,000 | 1 |
| $3,000 and up | 4 |
All 19 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Ohio has the 35th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 7 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 27 percent under, while goods sit 6 percent under and services 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Columbus | 6 | $2,267 | $1,080/mo |
| Dayton | 4 | $3,010 | $780/mo |
| Cleveland | 2 | $2,459 | $860/mo |
| Franklin | 2 | $3,021 | $950/mo |
| Toledo | 2 | $2,230 | $810/mo |
| Mayfield Heights | 1 | $2,191 | $1,150/mo |
| Middleburg Heights | 1 | $2,175 | — |
| Springfield | 1 | $1,878 | $810/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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