The median advertised pay for a travel PCU (progressive care unit) contract in Washington is $2,624 per week, with the middle half between $2,434 and $2,624. Measured across 12 active travel PCU contracts in Washington at 4 facilities, as of 2026-11-08.
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 13 percent over the $2,313 national median for travel PCU contracts.
Washington 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 $2,200 | 1 |
| $2,200 to $2,300 | 2 |
| $2,300 to $2,400 | 0 |
| $2,400 to $2,500 | 0 |
| $2,500 to $2,600 | 1 |
| $2,600 to $2,700 | 6 |
| $2,700 to $2,800 | 0 |
| $2,800 and up | 2 |
All 12 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Washington has the 6th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 7 percent over the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 26 percent over, while goods sit 4 percent over and services 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spokane | 6 | $2,624 | $1,120/mo |
| Edmonds | 2 | $2,211 | $2,230/mo |
| Olympia | 2 | $2,989 | $1,570/mo |
| Seattle | 2 | $2,493 | $2,420/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 0.9 percent, from $2,573 to $2,596 a week. Measured against the seven days before it, across 11 open postings, 2026-10-26 to 2026-11-08.
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 43 states with PCU openings