The median advertised pay for a travel Med-Surg (medical-surgical) contract in Ohio is $2,242 per week, with the middle half between $2,155 and $2,277. Measured across 23 active travel Med-Surg contracts in Ohio at 18 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 3 percent over the $2,185 national median for travel Med-Surg 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 $1,900 | 1 |
| $1,900 to $2,000 | 4 |
| $2,000 to $2,100 | 0 |
| $2,100 to $2,200 | 4 |
| $2,200 to $2,300 | 9 |
| $2,300 to $2,400 | 2 |
| $2,400 to $2,500 | 0 |
| $2,500 and up | 3 |
All 23 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cleveland | 5 | $2,268 | $860/mo |
| Columbus | 3 | $2,242 | $1,080/mo |
| Warrensville Heights | 3 | $2,256 | $970/mo |
| Mayfield Heights | 2 | $2,355 | $1,150/mo |
| Akron | 1 | $2,166 | $875/mo |
| Canton | 1 | $2,145 | $735/mo |
| Cuyahoga Falls | 1 | $1,925 | $915/mo |
| Dayton | 1 | $2,745 | $780/mo |
| Euclid | 1 | $2,256 | $990/mo |
| Gallipolis | 1 | $1,665 | — |
| Garfield Heights | 1 | $2,228 | $1,100/mo |
| Lancaster | 1 | $1,987 | $970/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.
Browse the board for current Med-Surg assignments in Ohio.
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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