The median advertised pay for a travel Telemetry contract in California is $2,298 per week, with the middle half between $2,250 and $2,815. Measured across 32 active travel Telemetry contracts in California at 17 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 0 percent over the $2,295 national median for travel Telemetry contracts.
California is not a Nurse Licensure Compact state, so you need a California license to work here even if you hold a multistate license. The compact state list explains which states issue one.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| Under $2,100 | 2 |
| $2,100 to $2,250 | 5 |
| $2,250 to $2,400 | 14 |
| $2,400 to $2,550 | 2 |
| $2,550 to $2,700 | 0 |
| $2,700 to $2,850 | 2 |
| $2,850 to $3,000 | 6 |
| $3,000 and up | 1 |
All 32 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
California has the highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 11 percent over the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 54 percent over, while goods sit 6 percent over and services 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Merced | 5 | $2,323 | $1,150/mo |
| Bakersfield | 4 | $2,298 | $1,060/mo |
| San Diego | 4 | $2,986 | $2,530/mo |
| Modesto | 2 | $2,815 | $1,210/mo |
| Oxnard | 2 | $2,180 | $1,935/mo |
| Rancho Mirage | 2 | $2,516 | $1,930/mo |
| Redding | 2 | $2,262 | $1,230/mo |
| Sacramento | 2 | $2,256 | $1,630/mo |
| San Leandro | 2 | $2,926 | $1,955/mo |
| Simi Valley | 2 | $2,051 | $2,480/mo |
| Fountain Valley | 1 | $2,187 | $2,630/mo |
| Fremont | 1 | $2,964 | $2,670/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.
Browse the board for current Telemetry assignments in California.
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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