The median advertised pay for a travel L&D (labor and delivery) contract in Oregon is $2,700 per week, with the middle half between $2,432 and $2,868. Measured across 13 active travel L&D contracts in Oregon at 7 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 2 percent over the $2,654 national median for travel L&D 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.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| $2,300 to $2,450 | 4 |
| $2,450 to $2,600 | 1 |
| $2,600 to $2,750 | 3 |
| $2,750 to $2,900 | 3 |
| $2,900 to $3,050 | 0 |
| $3,050 to $3,200 | 0 |
| $3,200 and up | 2 |
All 13 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 | $2,473 | $1,790/mo |
| Albany | 3 | $3,241 | $1,210/mo |
| Medford | 3 | $2,361 | $1,070/mo |
| Hillsboro | 1 | $2,808 | $1,895/mo |
| Stayton | 1 | $2,868 | — |
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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