The median advertised pay for a travel ICU (intensive care unit) contract in Oklahoma is $2,332 per week, with the middle half between $2,106 and $2,378. Measured across 11 active travel ICU contracts in Oklahoma at 6 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 1 percent over the $2,307 national median for travel ICU contracts.
Oklahoma 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 |
|---|---|
| Under $1,700 | 1 |
| $1,700 to $1,850 | 1 |
| $1,850 to $2,000 | 1 |
| $2,000 to $2,150 | 0 |
| $2,150 to $2,300 | 0 |
| $2,300 to $2,450 | 6 |
| $2,450 to $2,600 | 2 |
All 11 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Oklahoma has the 48th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 12 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 37 percent under, while goods sit 6 percent under and services 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma City | 5 | $2,345 | $940/mo |
| Edmond | 3 | $2,332 | $1,280/mo |
| Tulsa | 2 | $2,081 | $950/mo |
| Duncan | 1 | $1,684 | — |
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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