The median advertised pay for a travel ER (emergency room) contract in Oregon is $2,228 per week, with the middle half between $2,201 and $2,467. Measured across 17 active travel ER contracts in Oregon at 13 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 2 percent under the $2,264 national median for travel ER contracts.
Oregon is not a Nurse Licensure Compact state, so you need a Oregon 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 $2,200 | 2 |
| $2,200 to $2,300 | 7 |
| $2,300 to $2,400 | 0 |
| $2,400 to $2,500 | 3 |
| $2,500 to $2,600 | 0 |
| $2,600 to $2,700 | 2 |
| $2,700 and up | 1 |
All 17 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Oregon has the 12th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 3 percent over the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 9 percent over, while goods sit 5 percent over and services 0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clackamas | 2 | $2,756 | $1,840/mo |
| Coos Bay | 2 | $2,186 | $860/mo |
| Hermiston | 2 | $2,467 | $910/mo |
| Medford | 2 | $2,203 | $1,070/mo |
| Albany | 1 | $2,228 | $1,210/mo |
| Ashland | 1 | $1,956 | $1,220/mo |
| Corvallis | 1 | $2,228 | $1,290/mo |
| John Day | 1 | $2,405 | — |
| Lakeview | 1 | $2,674 | — |
| Lincoln City | 1 | $2,267 | $1,060/mo |
| Roseburg | 1 | $2,143 | $970/mo |
| Salem | 1 | $2,253 | $1,275/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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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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