The median advertised pay for a travel OR (operating room) contract in Arizona is $2,357 per week, with the middle half between $2,241 and $2,434. Measured across 23 active travel OR contracts in Arizona at 9 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 9 percent under the $2,589 national median for travel OR contracts.
Arizona 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 $2,100 | 1 |
| $2,100 to $2,150 | 3 |
| $2,150 to $2,200 | 0 |
| $2,200 to $2,250 | 2 |
| $2,250 to $2,300 | 2 |
| $2,300 to $2,350 | 1 |
| $2,350 to $2,400 | 7 |
| $2,400 and up | 7 |
All 23 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Arizona has the 17th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 1 percent over the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 7 percent over, while goods sit 5 percent under and services 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Phoenix | 7 | $2,370 | $1,625/mo |
| Tuba City | 4 | $2,434 | — |
| Tucson | 4 | $2,274 | $1,050/mo |
| Gilbert | 3 | $2,128 | $2,220/mo |
| Glendale | 2 | $2,364 | $1,645/mo |
| Mesa | 2 | $2,364 | $1,660/mo |
| Flagstaff | 1 | $2,397 | $1,710/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 OR assignments in Arizona.
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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