The median advertised pay for a travel PCU (progressive care unit) contract in Texas is $2,051 per week, with the middle half between $1,927 and $2,427. Measured across 8 active travel PCU contracts in Texas at 5 facilities, as of 2026-10-31.
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 11 percent under the $2,310 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, and the compact checker tells you whether yours covers you here.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| $1,800 to $1,950 | 2 |
| $1,950 to $2,100 | 3 |
| $2,100 to $2,250 | 0 |
| $2,250 to $2,400 | 0 |
| $2,400 to $2,550 | 2 |
| $2,550 to $2,700 | 0 |
| $2,700 and up | 1 |
All 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lubbock | 2 | $2,051 | $1,010/mo |
| Tyler | 2 | $1,837 | $1,080/mo |
| Wichita Falls | 2 | $2,427 | $885/mo |
| Amarillo | 1 | $2,836 | $920/mo |
| Longview | 1 | $1,957 | $1,000/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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