The median advertised pay for a travel OR (operating room) contract in Ohio is $2,515 per week, with the middle half between $2,206 and $2,656. Measured across 13 active travel OR contracts in Ohio at 8 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 3 percent under the $2,590 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.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| Under $2,000 | 2 |
| $2,000 to $2,150 | 1 |
| $2,150 to $2,300 | 1 |
| $2,300 to $2,450 | 1 |
| $2,450 to $2,600 | 3 |
| $2,600 to $2,750 | 2 |
| $2,750 to $2,900 | 1 |
| $2,900 and up | 2 |
All 13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middleburg Heights | 4 | $2,764 | — |
| Akron | 2 | $2,242 | $875/mo |
| Columbus | 2 | $2,719 | $1,080/mo |
| Zanesville | 2 | $2,045 | $730/mo |
| Cleveland | 1 | $2,515 | $860/mo |
| Dublin | 1 | $2,554 | $1,505/mo |
| Mayfield Heights | 1 | $2,206 | $1,150/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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