The median advertised pay for a travel OR (operating room) contract in Georgia is $2,522 per week, with the middle half between $2,271 and $2,846. Measured across 37 active travel OR contracts in Georgia at 20 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 3 percent under the $2,597 national median for travel OR contracts.
Georgia 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 | 4 |
| $2,100 to $2,300 | 9 |
| $2,300 to $2,500 | 4 |
| $2,500 to $2,700 | 10 |
| $2,700 to $2,900 | 1 |
| $2,900 to $3,100 | 0 |
| $3,100 to $3,300 | 1 |
| $3,300 and up | 8 |
All 37 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Georgia has the 27th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 4 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 11 percent under, while goods sit 1 percent under and services 3 percent under. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atlanta | 17 | $2,594 | $1,865/mo |
| Augusta | 3 | $2,524 | $975/mo |
| Austell | 2 | $2,080 | $1,485/mo |
| Macon | 2 | $2,823 | $1,005/mo |
| Sandy Springs | 2 | $2,961 | $2,120/mo |
| Tucker | 2 | $2,397 | $1,710/mo |
| Albany | 1 | $2,256 | $940/mo |
| Canton | 1 | $2,065 | $1,730/mo |
| Cumming | 1 | $2,280 | $1,940/mo |
| Dalton | 1 | $2,244 | $875/mo |
| Decatur | 1 | $2,273 | $1,550/mo |
| Duluth | 1 | $2,065 | $1,995/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 Georgia.
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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