The median advertised pay for a travel OR (operating room) contract in Pennsylvania is $2,829 per week, with the middle half between $2,665 and $2,929. Measured across 12 active travel OR contracts in Pennsylvania at 8 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 9 percent over the $2,601 national median for travel OR contracts.
Pennsylvania 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 |
|---|---|
| $2,600 to $2,650 | 2 |
| $2,650 to $2,700 | 2 |
| $2,700 to $2,750 | 0 |
| $2,750 to $2,800 | 2 |
| $2,800 to $2,850 | 0 |
| $2,850 to $2,900 | 2 |
| $2,900 and up | 4 |
All 12 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Pennsylvania has the 24th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 2 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 15 percent under, while goods sit 1 percent under and services 0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pittsburgh | 3 | $2,665 | $960/mo |
| Erie | 2 | $3,267 | $860/mo |
| Philadelphia | 2 | $2,872 | $1,355/mo |
| Pottstown | 2 | $2,786 | $1,310/mo |
| Chambersburg | 1 | $2,612 | $1,050/mo |
| Hershey | 1 | $2,998 | $1,190/mo |
| York | 1 | $2,612 | $1,070/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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