The median advertised pay for a travel OR (operating room) contract in Arizona is $2,469 per week, with the middle half between $2,359 and $2,656. Measured across 21 active travel OR contracts in Arizona at 15 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 7 percent under the $2,664 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, and the compact checker tells you whether yours covers you here.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| $2,100 to $2,200 | 3 |
| $2,200 to $2,300 | 0 |
| $2,300 to $2,400 | 5 |
| $2,400 to $2,500 | 3 |
| $2,500 to $2,600 | 3 |
| $2,600 to $2,700 | 2 |
| $2,700 and up | 5 |
All 21 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tucson | 5 | $2,332 | $1,050/mo |
| Mesa | 4 | $2,763 | $1,660/mo |
| Phoenix | 4 | $2,676 | $1,625/mo |
| Flagstaff | 2 | $2,613 | $1,710/mo |
| Cottonwood | 1 | $2,839 | $1,190/mo |
| Globe | 1 | $2,560 | — |
| Kingman | 1 | $2,436 | $1,020/mo |
| Payson | 1 | $2,359 | $1,190/mo |
| Show Low | 1 | $2,552 | — |
| Sun City | 1 | $2,388 | $1,630/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.
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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 47 states with OR openings