The median advertised pay for a travel Med-Surg (medical-surgical) contract in Oklahoma is $1,956 per week, with the middle half between $1,728 and $2,223. Measured across 34 active travel Med-Surg contracts in Oklahoma at 13 facilities, as of 2026-10-31.
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 12 percent under the $2,221 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, and the compact checker tells you whether yours covers you here.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| Under $1,500 | 3 |
| $1,500 to $1,650 | 4 |
| $1,650 to $1,800 | 3 |
| $1,800 to $1,950 | 5 |
| $1,950 to $2,100 | 6 |
| $2,100 to $2,250 | 9 |
| $2,250 to $2,400 | 4 |
All 34 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 | 15 | $2,224 | $940/mo |
| Lawton | 8 | $1,674 | $750/mo |
| Tulsa | 5 | $1,686 | $950/mo |
| Edmond | 2 | $1,984 | $1,280/mo |
| Cushing | 1 | $1,573 | $810/mo |
| Duncan | 1 | $1,889 | — |
| Ponca City | 1 | $1,953 | $720/mo |
| Woodward | 1 | $1,879 | — |
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 fell 0.4 percent, from $1,974 to $1,966 a week. Measured against the seven days before it, across 33 open postings, 2026-10-18 to 2026-10-31.
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.
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