The median advertised pay for a travel OR (operating room) contract in Oregon is $2,842 per week, with the middle half between $2,674 and $3,560. Measured across 6 active travel OR contracts in Oregon at 5 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home. With only 6 open contracts in Oregon, treat that median as an indication rather than a rate: the contracts below are the useful part of this page.
That is 10 percent over the $2,590 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.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| Under $2,500 | 1 |
| $2,500 to $2,750 | 1 |
| $2,750 to $3,000 | 2 |
| $3,000 to $3,250 | 0 |
| $3,250 to $3,500 | 0 |
| $3,500 to $3,750 | 0 |
| $3,750 to $4,000 | 2 |
All 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clackamas | 2 | $3,866 | $1,840/mo |
| Salem | 2 | $2,502 | $1,275/mo |
| Hermiston | 1 | $2,815 | $910/mo |
| Roseburg | 1 | $2,868 | $970/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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