The median advertised pay for a travel OR (operating room) contract in Oregon is $2,635 per week, with the middle half between $2,417 and $2,798. Measured across 15 active travel OR contracts in Oregon at 9 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 1 percent under the $2,653 national median for travel OR contracts.
Oregon is not a Nurse Licensure Compact state, so you need a Oregon 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 $2,300 | 1 |
| $2,300 to $2,400 | 3 |
| $2,400 to $2,500 | 1 |
| $2,500 to $2,600 | 2 |
| $2,600 to $2,700 | 3 |
| $2,700 to $2,800 | 1 |
| $2,800 to $2,900 | 2 |
| $2,900 and up | 2 |
All 15 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Oregon has the 12th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 3 percent over the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 9 percent over, while goods sit 5 percent over and services 0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medford | 3 | $2,350 | $1,070/mo |
| Portland | 3 | $2,926 | $1,790/mo |
| Salem | 3 | $2,469 | $1,275/mo |
| Springfield | 2 | $2,758 | $1,105/mo |
| Bend | 1 | $2,641 | $1,410/mo |
| Gold Beach | 1 | $2,827 | — |
| Ontario | 1 | $2,365 | — |
| Silverton | 1 | $2,637 | — |
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 rose 0.9 percent, from $2,600 to $2,622 a week. Measured against the seven days before it, across 16 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