The median advertised pay for a travel OR (operating room) contract in Indiana is $2,802 per week, with the middle half between $2,612 and $2,883. Measured across 15 active travel OR contracts in Indiana at 6 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 5 percent over the $2,669 national median for travel OR contracts.
Indiana 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 |
|---|---|
| Under $2,600 | 1 |
| $2,600 to $2,650 | 4 |
| $2,650 to $2,700 | 2 |
| $2,700 to $2,750 | 0 |
| $2,750 to $2,800 | 0 |
| $2,800 to $2,850 | 1 |
| $2,850 to $2,900 | 5 |
| $2,900 and up | 2 |
All 15 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Indiana has the 34th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 7 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 26 percent under, while goods sit 4 percent under and services 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indianapolis | 12 | $2,881 | $1,090/mo |
| East Chicago | 1 | $2,675 | $770/mo |
| Franklin | 1 | $2,374 | $1,050/mo |
| Lebanon | 1 | $2,682 | — |
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 2.1 percent, from $2,773 to $2,831 a week. Measured against the seven days before it, across 14 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