The median advertised pay for a travel Telemetry contract in California is $2,470 per week, with the middle half between $2,261 and $2,606. Measured across 81 active travel Telemetry contracts in California at 39 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 3 percent over the $2,408 national median for travel Telemetry contracts.
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| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| Under $2,100 | 3 |
| $2,100 to $2,200 | 7 |
| $2,200 to $2,300 | 11 |
| $2,300 to $2,400 | 7 |
| $2,400 to $2,500 | 24 |
| $2,500 to $2,600 | 8 |
| $2,600 to $2,700 | 8 |
| $2,700 and up | 13 |
All 81 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fountain Valley | 13 | $2,483 | $2,630/mo |
| Glendale | 5 | $2,250 | $2,365/mo |
| Rancho Mirage | 5 | $2,793 | $1,930/mo |
| Lakewood | 4 | $2,441 | $2,550/mo |
| Los Angeles | 4 | $2,376 | $2,150/mo |
| Orange | 4 | $2,441 | $2,430/mo |
| San Francisco | 4 | $2,470 | $2,680/mo |
| Simi Valley | 4 | $2,329 | $2,480/mo |
| Redding | 3 | $2,494 | $1,230/mo |
| San Diego | 3 | $2,982 | $2,530/mo |
| Antioch | 2 | $2,749 | $2,375/mo |
| Bakersfield | 2 | $2,415 | $1,060/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 0.4 percent, from $2,414 to $2,423 a week. Measured against the seven days before it, across 77 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 38 states with Telemetry openings