The median advertised pay for a travel PCU (progressive care unit) contract in Virginia is $2,325 per week, with the middle half between $2,258 and $2,610. Measured across 21 active travel PCU contracts in Virginia at 12 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 1 percent over the $2,302 national median for travel PCU contracts.
Virginia 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 |
|---|---|
| Under $2,100 | 1 |
| $2,100 to $2,200 | 2 |
| $2,200 to $2,300 | 4 |
| $2,300 to $2,400 | 4 |
| $2,400 to $2,500 | 0 |
| $2,500 to $2,600 | 3 |
| $2,600 to $2,700 | 5 |
| $2,700 and up | 2 |
All 21 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Virginia has the 16th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 1 percent over the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 7 percent over, while goods sit 0 percent over and services 0 percent over. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lynchburg | 4 | $2,727 | $1,020/mo |
| Charlottesville | 3 | $2,625 | $1,410/mo |
| Norfolk | 3 | $2,596 | $1,400/mo |
| Roanoke | 3 | $2,207 | $910/mo |
| Fishersville | 2 | $2,258 | — |
| Abingdon | 1 | $2,325 | — |
| Harrisonburg | 1 | $2,596 | $1,100/mo |
| Mechanicsville | 1 | $2,115 | $1,810/mo |
| Richmond | 1 | $2,268 | $1,480/mo |
| Virginia Beach | 1 | $2,610 | $1,710/mo |
| Williamsburg | 1 | $2,604 | $1,535/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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Over the last seven days the median advertised rate rose 4.1 percent, from $2,332 to $2,427 a week. Measured against the seven days before it, across 23 open postings, 2026-10-17 to 2026-10-30.
This compares advertised rates within one specialty in one state, which is the only cut where a change in the median is likely to mean a change in price rather than a change in which contracts are posted. Where the number of open postings moves sharply, no figure is shown.
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.
All 45 states with PCU openings