The median advertised pay for a travel L&D (labor and delivery) contract in Ohio is $2,125 per week, with the middle half between $2,059 and $2,426. Measured across 6 active travel L&D contracts in Ohio at 5 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 23 percent under the $2,756 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, and the compact checker tells you whether yours covers you here.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| $1,900 to $2,000 | 1 |
| $2,000 to $2,100 | 1 |
| $2,100 to $2,200 | 2 |
| $2,200 to $2,300 | 0 |
| $2,300 to $2,400 | 0 |
| $2,400 to $2,500 | 0 |
| $2,500 and up | 2 |
All 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lima | 2 | $2,125 | $815/mo |
| Galion | 1 | $2,531 | — |
| Grove City | 1 | $2,045 | $1,180/mo |
| Mayfield Heights | 1 | $1,925 | $1,150/mo |
| Middleburg Heights | 1 | $2,518 | — |
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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