The median advertised pay for a travel PCU (progressive care unit) contract in Pennsylvania is $2,170 per week, with the middle half between $2,170 and $2,217. Measured across 5 active travel PCU contracts in Pennsylvania 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 6 percent under the $2,301 national median for travel PCU contracts.
Pennsylvania 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, and the compact checker tells you whether yours covers you here.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| $2,100 to $2,150 | 0 |
| $2,150 to $2,200 | 3 |
| $2,200 to $2,250 | 1 |
| $2,250 to $2,300 | 0 |
| $2,300 to $2,350 | 0 |
| $2,350 to $2,400 | 0 |
| $2,400 and up | 1 |
All 5 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Pennsylvania has the 24th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 2 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 15 percent under, while goods sit 1 percent under and services 0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pottstown | 2 | $2,170 | $1,310/mo |
| Pittsburgh | 1 | $2,417 | $960/mo |
| Uniontown | 1 | $2,217 | — |
| West Reading | 1 | $2,161 | — |
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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