The median advertised pay for a travel PCU (progressive care unit) contract in Texas is $2,208 per week, with the middle half between $2,108 and $2,570. Measured across 11 active travel PCU contracts in Texas at 6 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 2 percent under the $2,247 national median for travel PCU contracts.
Texas 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 |
|---|---|
| $1,800 to $2,000 | 2 |
| $2,000 to $2,200 | 2 |
| $2,200 to $2,400 | 4 |
| $2,400 to $2,600 | 0 |
| $2,600 to $2,800 | 1 |
| $2,800 to $3,000 | 0 |
| $3,000 and up | 2 |
All 11 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Texas has the 25th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 3 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 3 percent under, while goods sit 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wichita Falls | 3 | $2,208 | $885/mo |
| Amarillo | 2 | $2,384 | $920/mo |
| Odessa | 2 | $3,074 | $1,300/mo |
| Waco | 2 | $1,824 | $1,110/mo |
| Abilene | 1 | $2,029 | $940/mo |
| San Angelo | 1 | $2,756 | $1,005/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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