The median advertised pay for a travel OR (operating room) contract in Florida is $2,274 per week, with the middle half between $2,157 and $2,465. Measured across 15 active travel OR contracts in Florida at 10 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 14 percent under the $2,653 national median for travel OR contracts.
Florida 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 |
|---|---|
| $1,900 to $2,000 | 2 |
| $2,000 to $2,100 | 1 |
| $2,100 to $2,200 | 3 |
| $2,200 to $2,300 | 2 |
| $2,300 to $2,400 | 3 |
| $2,400 to $2,500 | 0 |
| $2,500 and up | 4 |
All 15 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Florida has the 11th 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 22 percent over, while goods sit 2 percent under and services 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weston | 5 | $2,311 | $2,890/mo |
| Winter Haven | 2 | $2,451 | $1,000/mo |
| Altamonte Springs | 1 | $2,142 | $1,755/mo |
| Coral Springs | 1 | $1,959 | $2,060/mo |
| Deerfield Beach | 1 | $1,959 | $2,005/mo |
| Fort Lauderdale | 1 | $2,192 | $1,930/mo |
| Gainesville | 1 | $3,104 | $1,300/mo |
| Melbourne | 1 | $2,569 | $1,710/mo |
| Orlando | 1 | $2,172 | $1,830/mo |
| Tallahassee | 1 | $2,360 | $1,180/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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Over the last seven days the median advertised rate rose 1.6 percent, from $2,343 to $2,379 a week. Measured against the seven days before it, across 13 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.
All 47 states with OR openings