The median advertised pay for a travel Med-Surg (medical-surgical) contract in Oklahoma is $2,203 per week, with the middle half between $1,721 and $2,224. Measured across 25 active travel Med-Surg contracts in Oklahoma at 9 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 1 percent over the $2,185 national median for travel Med-Surg 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.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| $1,600 to $1,700 | 6 |
| $1,700 to $1,800 | 2 |
| $1,800 to $1,900 | 0 |
| $1,900 to $2,000 | 2 |
| $2,000 to $2,100 | 1 |
| $2,100 to $2,200 | 0 |
| $2,200 and up | 14 |
All 25 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 | 13 | $2,218 | $940/mo |
| Tulsa | 9 | $1,691 | $950/mo |
| Cushing | 1 | $1,638 | $810/mo |
| Lawton | 1 | $2,046 | $750/mo |
| Ponca City | 1 | $1,953 | $720/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 Oklahoma.
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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