The median advertised pay for a travel L&D (labor and delivery) contract in Ohio is $2,045 per week, with the middle half between $1,972 and $2,144. Measured across 14 active travel L&D contracts in Ohio at 9 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 23 percent under the $2,654 national median for travel L&D 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 |
|---|---|
| Under $1,800 | 1 |
| $1,800 to $1,900 | 1 |
| $1,900 to $2,000 | 3 |
| $2,000 to $2,100 | 4 |
| $2,100 to $2,200 | 2 |
| $2,200 to $2,300 | 0 |
| $2,300 to $2,400 | 1 |
| $2,400 and up | 2 |
All 14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lancaster | 3 | $1,967 | $970/mo |
| Bellefontaine | 2 | $2,359 | — |
| Lima | 2 | $2,032 | $815/mo |
| Westerville | 2 | $2,045 | $1,490/mo |
| Canton | 1 | $1,950 | $735/mo |
| Galion | 1 | $2,155 | — |
| Mayfield Heights | 1 | $1,799 | $1,150/mo |
| Mount Vernon | 1 | $2,403 | — |
| Springfield | 1 | $2,111 | $810/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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