The median advertised pay for a travel OR (operating room) contract in Ohio is $2,345 per week, with the middle half between $2,082 and $2,497. Measured across 12 active travel OR contracts in Ohio at 11 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 12 percent under the $2,669 national median for travel OR contracts.
Ohio 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 $2,000 | 1 |
| $2,000 to $2,150 | 3 |
| $2,150 to $2,300 | 1 |
| $2,300 to $2,450 | 3 |
| $2,450 to $2,600 | 1 |
| $2,600 to $2,750 | 1 |
| $2,750 to $2,900 | 1 |
| $2,900 and up | 1 |
All 12 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Ohio has the 35th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 7 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 27 percent under, while goods sit 6 percent under and services 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Westerville | 2 | $2,045 | $1,490/mo |
| Bucyrus | 1 | $2,455 | — |
| Dayton | 1 | $2,623 | $780/mo |
| Franklin | 1 | $2,339 | $950/mo |
| Greenville | 1 | $2,351 | — |
| Mayfield Heights | 1 | $2,206 | $1,150/mo |
| Middleburg Heights | 1 | $2,901 | — |
| Mount Vernon | 1 | $2,398 | — |
| New Albany | 1 | $2,094 | $1,670/mo |
| Springfield | 1 | $2,830 | $810/mo |
| Zanesville | 1 | $1,903 | $730/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 2.9 percent, from $2,395 to $2,325 a week. Measured against the seven days before it, across 11 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