Travel RT · Palm Bay–Melbourne, FL · Q3 2026
Travel Respiratory Therapist pay benchmark in Palm Bay–Melbourne, FL
Modeled weekly gross wage benchmark
Pre-tax model on a 36-hour week after a disclosed 30% agency-margin assumption. It excludes travel and housing stipends, overtime, shift differentials, bonuses, benefits, and reimbursements. Not a package quote, paycheck, or job offer. How we compute this →
As of 2026-07-19, PayBeacon’s travel Respiratory Therapist benchmark for Palm Bay–Melbourne, FL is $1,669/week before tax, modeled from May 2025 BLS wages and FY2024 CMS contract-labor filings; it excludes stipends and premium-pay components.
What this benchmark says
- Palm Bay–Melbourne, FL ranks #90 of 118 covered metros for travel RT modeled gross wages.
- Palm Bay–Melbourne, FL is 3.0% below the matching FL RT state benchmark of $1,721/week. Open the state benchmark.
- The modeled p25–p75 band spans $112/week, or 6.7% of the point estimate.
- The state contract premium uses 126 valid hospital filings, a broad sample by PayBeacon’s published thresholds.
- The latest validated source release changed the benchmark by −$158/week (-8.6%) from the prior published snapshot.
- Modeled hourly wage
- $46.37pre-tax · 36-hour week
- Blended facility contract cost
- $66.24derived from direct-patient-care contract costs in CMS filings
- Local staff wage
- $37.85median for staff in this metro, BLS
- Contract premium
- 1.75×contract vs staff, FL state · 126 hospitals
- OEWS employment
- 250staff jobs in the BLS sample
- Metro rank
- #90 of 118covered metros for RT
- Difference from state
- -3.0%benchmark is 3.0% below FL ($1,721/wk)
Each point is a validated government-source snapshot published on the date shown. This is release history—not a live-job-rate time series.
Vintages — BLS OEWS: May 2025 · CMS HCRIS: FY2024 · State caps: CY2026. Materially updated 2026-07-19. Premium computed from 126 hospital filings (FL state). This is an allied role — the contract premium is nursing-anchored, so treat the estimate as directional.
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