The median advertised pay for a travel OR (operating room) contract in Maryland is $2,759 per week, with the middle half between $2,738 and $2,759. Measured across 5 active travel OR contracts in Maryland at 3 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 3 percent over the $2,669 national median for travel OR contracts.
Maryland 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 |
|---|---|
| $2,700 to $2,750 | 2 |
| $2,750 to $2,800 | 3 |
| $2,800 to $2,850 | 0 |
| $2,850 to $2,900 | 0 |
| $2,900 to $2,950 | 0 |
| $2,950 to $3,000 | 0 |
All 5 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Maryland has the 8th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 5 percent over the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 21 percent over, while goods sit 3 percent over and services 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baltimore | 2 | $2,733 | $1,430/mo |
| Clinton | 2 | $2,765 | — |
| Olney | 1 | $2,759 | $2,430/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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