The median advertised pay for a travel L&D (labor and delivery) contract in Oklahoma is $2,358 per week, with the middle half between $2,208 and $2,391. Measured across 9 active travel L&D contracts in Oklahoma at 6 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 14 percent under the $2,756 national median for travel L&D 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, and the compact checker tells you whether yours covers you here.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| $2,000 to $2,100 | 2 |
| $2,100 to $2,200 | 0 |
| $2,200 to $2,300 | 1 |
| $2,300 to $2,400 | 4 |
| $2,400 to $2,500 | 1 |
| $2,500 to $2,600 | 0 |
| $2,600 and up | 1 |
All 9 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 | $2,375 | $940/mo |
| Tulsa | 3 | $2,027 | $950/mo |
| Tahlequah | 1 | $2,391 | $740/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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