The median advertised pay for a travel OR (operating room) contract in Pennsylvania is $2,937 per week, with the middle half between $2,669 and $3,191. Measured across 13 active travel OR contracts in Pennsylvania at 8 facilities, as of 2026-10-30.
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 10 percent over the $2,669 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, and the compact checker tells you whether yours covers you here.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| Under $2,500 | 1 |
| $2,500 to $2,650 | 2 |
| $2,650 to $2,800 | 2 |
| $2,800 to $2,950 | 3 |
| $2,950 to $3,100 | 1 |
| $3,100 to $3,250 | 2 |
| $3,250 to $3,400 | 2 |
All 13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philadelphia | 3 | $2,937 | $1,355/mo |
| Pittsburgh | 3 | $2,669 | $960/mo |
| Erie | 2 | $2,873 | $860/mo |
| York | 2 | $2,491 | $1,070/mo |
| Hershey | 1 | $3,320 | $1,190/mo |
| Monroeville | 1 | $3,231 | $1,240/mo |
| Reading | 1 | $3,359 | $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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Over the last seven days the median advertised rate fell 0.0 percent, from $2,919 to $2,917 a week. Measured against the seven days before it, across 14 open postings, 2026-10-17 to 2026-10-30.
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