The median advertised pay for a travel OR (operating room) contract in Michigan is $2,435 per week, with the middle half between $2,248 and $2,660. Measured across 12 active travel OR contracts in Michigan at 7 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 6 percent under the $2,590 national median for travel OR contracts.
Michigan is not a Nurse Licensure Compact state, so you need a Michigan license to work here even if you hold a multistate license. The compact state list explains which states issue one.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| $2,100 to $2,250 | 3 |
| $2,250 to $2,400 | 1 |
| $2,400 to $2,550 | 3 |
| $2,550 to $2,700 | 2 |
| $2,700 to $2,850 | 1 |
| $2,850 to $3,000 | 0 |
| $3,000 and up | 2 |
All 12 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Michigan has the 28th 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 18 percent under, while goods sit 4 percent under and services 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saginaw | 4 | $2,358 | $790/mo |
| Ann Arbor | 2 | $2,831 | $1,350/mo |
| Flint | 2 | $2,245 | $810/mo |
| Iron Mountain | 1 | $2,829 | — |
| Kalamazoo | 1 | $2,420 | $960/mo |
| Petoskey | 1 | $2,415 | — |
| Wyoming | 1 | $3,054 | $1,110/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.
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