The median advertised pay for a travel Med-Surg (medical-surgical) contract in Ohio is $2,216 per week, with the middle half between $2,145 and $2,260. Measured across 31 active travel Med-Surg contracts in Ohio at 14 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 0 percent over the $2,220 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, and the compact checker tells you whether yours covers you here.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| Under $1,900 | 1 |
| $1,900 to $2,050 | 6 |
| $2,050 to $2,200 | 6 |
| $2,200 to $2,350 | 13 |
| $2,350 to $2,500 | 1 |
| $2,500 to $2,650 | 0 |
| $2,650 to $2,800 | 1 |
| $2,800 and up | 3 |
All 31 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 | 6 | $2,260 | $860/mo |
| Columbus | 4 | $2,204 | $1,080/mo |
| Mayfield Heights | 4 | $2,355 | $1,150/mo |
| Zanesville | 4 | $1,990 | $730/mo |
| Canton | 3 | $2,169 | $735/mo |
| Warrensville Heights | 3 | $2,231 | $970/mo |
| Akron | 2 | $2,155 | $875/mo |
| Garfield Heights | 2 | $2,203 | $1,100/mo |
| Euclid | 1 | $2,231 | $990/mo |
| Lima | 1 | $1,969 | $815/mo |
| Ontario | 1 | $2,045 | — |
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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Over the last seven days the median advertised rate rose 0.4 percent, from $2,211 to $2,220 a week. Measured against the seven days before it, across 31 open postings, 2026-10-17 to 2026-10-30.
This compares advertised rates within one specialty in one state, which is the only cut where a change in the median is likely to mean a change in price rather than a change in which contracts are posted. Where the number of open postings moves sharply, no figure is shown.
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.
All 49 states with Med-Surg openings