The median advertised pay for a travel Med-Surg (medical-surgical) contract in Oregon is $2,136 per week, with the middle half between $2,025 and $2,241. Measured across 12 active travel Med-Surg contracts in Oregon at 6 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 2 percent under the $2,185 national median for travel Med-Surg 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 |
|---|---|
| Under $1,900 | 2 |
| $1,900 to $1,950 | 0 |
| $1,950 to $2,000 | 0 |
| $2,000 to $2,050 | 2 |
| $2,050 to $2,100 | 2 |
| $2,100 to $2,150 | 0 |
| $2,150 to $2,200 | 0 |
| $2,200 and up | 6 |
All 12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medford | 3 | $2,067 | $1,070/mo |
| Portland | 3 | $2,005 | $1,790/mo |
| Salem | 3 | $2,217 | $1,275/mo |
| Springfield | 2 | $2,312 | $1,105/mo |
| Bend | 1 | $2,216 | $1,410/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 Oregon.
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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