The median advertised pay for a travel OR (operating room) contract in Florida is $2,266 per week, with the middle half between $2,218 and $2,813. Measured across 12 active travel OR contracts in Florida at 7 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 13 percent under the $2,590 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.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| Under $2,000 | 1 |
| $2,000 to $2,150 | 2 |
| $2,150 to $2,300 | 4 |
| $2,300 to $2,450 | 0 |
| $2,450 to $2,600 | 1 |
| $2,600 to $2,750 | 0 |
| $2,750 to $2,900 | 4 |
All 12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zephyrhills | 4 | $2,185 | $1,400/mo |
| Fort Myers | 3 | $2,817 | $1,525/mo |
| Bartow | 1 | $2,255 | $920/mo |
| Fort Lauderdale | 1 | $2,012 | $1,930/mo |
| Gainesville | 1 | $2,269 | $1,300/mo |
| New Port Richey | 1 | $2,255 | $1,565/mo |
| Tampa | 1 | $2,825 | $1,880/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 44 states with OR openings