The median advertised pay for a travel OR (operating room) contract in North Carolina is $2,402 per week, with the middle half between $2,092 and $2,402. Measured across 5 active travel OR contracts in North Carolina at 4 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 10 percent under the $2,656 national median for travel OR contracts.
North Carolina 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 |
|---|---|
| $2,000 to $2,150 | 2 |
| $2,150 to $2,300 | 0 |
| $2,300 to $2,450 | 2 |
| $2,450 to $2,600 | 0 |
| $2,600 to $2,750 | 0 |
| $2,750 to $2,900 | 0 |
| $2,900 and up | 1 |
All 5 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
North Carolina has the 31th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 6 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 19 percent under, while goods sit 3 percent under and services 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kinston | 2 | $2,402 | — |
| Greenville | 1 | $3,328 | $890/mo |
| Pinehurst | 1 | $2,092 | $1,540/mo |
| Rocky Mount | 1 | $2,068 | $870/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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