The median advertised pay for a travel OR (operating room) contract in Louisiana is $2,532 per week, with the middle half between $2,362 and $2,597. Measured across 7 active travel OR contracts in Louisiana at 5 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home. With only 7 open contracts in Louisiana, treat that median as an indication rather than a rate: the contracts below are the useful part of this page.
That is 2 percent under the $2,590 national median for travel OR contracts.
Louisiana 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 $2,200 | 1 |
| $2,200 to $2,300 | 0 |
| $2,300 to $2,400 | 1 |
| $2,400 to $2,500 | 1 |
| $2,500 to $2,600 | 2 |
| $2,600 to $2,700 | 1 |
| $2,700 to $2,800 | 1 |
All 7 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Louisiana has the 47th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 12 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 37 percent under, while goods sit 6 percent under and services 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Orleans | 3 | $2,546 | $1,260/mo |
| Slidell | 2 | $2,478 | $1,250/mo |
| Marrero | 1 | $2,414 | $1,190/mo |
| Shreveport | 1 | $2,152 | $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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