The median advertised pay for a travel OR (operating room) contract in Massachusetts is $2,793 per week, with the middle half between $2,654 and $3,041. Measured across 19 active travel OR contracts in Massachusetts at 13 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 7 percent over the $2,600 national median for travel OR contracts.
Massachusetts has enacted the Nurse Licensure Compact but has not implemented it, so a multistate license does not cover you here yet. You need a Massachusetts license. The compact state list explains which states issue one.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| Under $2,400 | 2 |
| $2,400 to $2,550 | 1 |
| $2,550 to $2,700 | 5 |
| $2,700 to $2,850 | 2 |
| $2,850 to $3,000 | 2 |
| $3,000 to $3,150 | 5 |
| $3,150 to $3,300 | 0 |
| $3,300 and up | 2 |
All 19 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Massachusetts has the 7th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 6 percent over the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 28 percent over, while goods sit 1 percent under and services 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boston | 4 | $3,054 | $2,600/mo |
| Concord | 4 | $2,660 | $2,940/mo |
| Framingham | 2 | $2,329 | $2,205/mo |
| Gardner | 2 | $2,790 | $1,180/mo |
| Burlington | 1 | $3,048 | $2,730/mo |
| Lawrence | 1 | $3,033 | $1,450/mo |
| Needham | 1 | $2,929 | $2,400/mo |
| Northampton | 1 | $2,685 | $1,540/mo |
| Plymouth | 1 | $3,400 | $2,140/mo |
| Winchester | 1 | $3,085 | $2,620/mo |
| Worcester | 1 | $2,695 | $1,400/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