The median advertised pay for a travel OR (operating room) contract in Michigan is $2,583 per week, with the middle half between $2,272 and $3,025. Measured across 10 active travel OR contracts in Michigan at 8 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 under the $2,669 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, and the compact checker tells you whether yours covers you here.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| Under $2,200 | 1 |
| $2,200 to $2,350 | 2 |
| $2,350 to $2,500 | 2 |
| $2,500 to $2,650 | 0 |
| $2,650 to $2,800 | 1 |
| $2,800 to $2,950 | 1 |
| $2,950 to $3,100 | 1 |
| $3,100 and up | 2 |
All 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ann Arbor | 3 | $3,210 | $1,350/mo |
| Bay City | 1 | $2,162 | $760/mo |
| Charlotte | 1 | $2,716 | — |
| Flint | 1 | $2,207 | $810/mo |
| Iron Mountain | 1 | $2,829 | — |
| Kalamazoo | 1 | $2,400 | $960/mo |
| Pontiac | 1 | $2,229 | $960/mo |
| Wyoming | 1 | $3,090 | $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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Over the last seven days the median advertised rate fell 3.7 percent, from $2,635 to $2,537 a week. Measured against the seven days before it, across 10 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