The median advertised pay for a travel OR (operating room) contract in Nebraska is $2,649 per week, with the middle half between $2,477 and $2,873. Measured across 10 active travel OR contracts in Nebraska at 7 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 0 percent over the $2,660 national median for travel OR contracts.
Nebraska 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 |
|---|---|
| Under $2,400 | 1 |
| $2,400 to $2,500 | 2 |
| $2,500 to $2,600 | 1 |
| $2,600 to $2,700 | 3 |
| $2,700 to $2,800 | 0 |
| $2,800 to $2,900 | 0 |
| $2,900 to $3,000 | 3 |
All 10 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Nebraska has the 41th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 10 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 25 percent under, while goods sit 6 percent under and services 7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Omaha | 4 | $2,935 | $1,105/mo |
| Kearney | 2 | $2,526 | — |
| Scottsbluff | 2 | $2,410 | — |
| North Platte | 1 | $2,687 | $710/mo |
| Superior | 1 | $2,555 | — |
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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