The median advertised pay for a travel OR (operating room) contract in South Carolina is $2,205 per week, with the middle half between $2,098 and $2,542. Measured across 13 active travel OR contracts in South Carolina at 7 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 15 percent under the $2,600 national median for travel OR contracts.
South Carolina 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 |
|---|---|
| $2,000 to $2,100 | 4 |
| $2,100 to $2,200 | 2 |
| $2,200 to $2,300 | 2 |
| $2,300 to $2,400 | 1 |
| $2,400 to $2,500 | 0 |
| $2,500 to $2,600 | 3 |
| $2,600 and up | 1 |
All 13 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
South Carolina has the 33th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 6 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 20 percent under, while goods sit 4 percent under and services 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charleston | 8 | $2,442 | $1,990/mo |
| Fort Mill | 2 | $2,232 | $1,750/mo |
| Camden | 1 | $2,139 | — |
| Florence | 1 | $2,118 | $870/mo |
| Spartanburg | 1 | $2,035 | $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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