The median advertised pay for a travel ER (emergency room) contract in Ohio is $2,114 per week, with the middle half between $1,922 and $2,139. Measured across 13 active travel ER contracts in Ohio at 11 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 7 percent under the $2,264 national median for travel ER contracts.
Ohio 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.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| $1,800 to $1,850 | 2 |
| $1,850 to $1,900 | 0 |
| $1,900 to $1,950 | 2 |
| $1,950 to $2,000 | 1 |
| $2,000 to $2,050 | 0 |
| $2,050 to $2,100 | 0 |
| $2,100 and up | 8 |
All 13 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Ohio has the 35th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 7 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 27 percent under, while goods sit 6 percent under and services 1 percent under. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cleveland | 3 | $2,118 | $860/mo |
| Zanesville | 2 | $1,946 | $730/mo |
| Akron | 1 | $2,155 | $875/mo |
| Canton | 1 | $1,833 | $735/mo |
| Columbus | 1 | $2,139 | $1,080/mo |
| Dayton | 1 | $2,109 | $780/mo |
| Dover | 1 | $1,833 | — |
| Franklin | 1 | $2,114 | $950/mo |
| London | 1 | $1,922 | — |
| Middleburg Heights | 1 | $2,207 | — |
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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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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