The median advertised pay for a travel ER (emergency room) contract in Oregon is $2,330 per week, with the middle half between $2,244 and $2,489. Measured across 16 active travel ER contracts in Oregon at 13 facilities, as of 2026-10-30.
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 1 percent under the $2,353 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, and the compact checker tells you whether yours covers you here.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| $2,200 to $2,250 | 5 |
| $2,250 to $2,300 | 1 |
| $2,300 to $2,350 | 4 |
| $2,350 to $2,400 | 1 |
| $2,400 to $2,450 | 0 |
| $2,450 to $2,500 | 1 |
| $2,500 and up | 4 |
All 16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portland | 5 | $2,244 | $1,790/mo |
| Springfield | 3 | $2,567 | $1,105/mo |
| Corvallis | 1 | $2,300 | $1,290/mo |
| Florence | 1 | $2,334 | — |
| Hermiston | 1 | $2,337 | $910/mo |
| Klamath Falls | 1 | $2,509 | $850/mo |
| Medford | 1 | $2,232 | $1,070/mo |
| Oregon City | 1 | $2,244 | $1,760/mo |
| Salem | 1 | $2,263 | $1,275/mo |
| Stayton | 1 | $2,482 | — |
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 0.8 percent, from $2,306 to $2,324 a week. Measured against the seven days before it, across 16 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.
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