The median advertised pay for a travel OR (operating room) contract in Texas is $2,343 per week, with the middle half between $2,073 and $2,450. Measured across 14 active travel OR contracts in Texas at 12 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 10 percent under the $2,589 national median for travel OR contracts.
Texas 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 |
|---|---|
| Under $1,700 | 1 |
| $1,700 to $1,850 | 2 |
| $1,850 to $2,000 | 0 |
| $2,000 to $2,150 | 3 |
| $2,150 to $2,300 | 1 |
| $2,300 to $2,450 | 3 |
| $2,450 to $2,600 | 2 |
| $2,600 and up | 2 |
All 14 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Texas has the 25th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 3 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 3 percent under, while goods sit 2 percent under and services 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abilene | 2 | $2,531 | $940/mo |
| Dallas | 2 | $2,096 | $1,530/mo |
| San Angelo | 2 | $2,485 | $1,005/mo |
| Amarillo | 1 | $2,291 | $920/mo |
| Athens | 1 | $2,113 | — |
| Austin | 1 | $1,589 | $1,750/mo |
| Cedar Park | 1 | $1,777 | $1,740/mo |
| Houston | 1 | $2,601 | $1,250/mo |
| Jacksonville | 1 | $2,113 | — |
| New Braunfels | 1 | $2,059 | $1,370/mo |
| Tyler | 1 | $2,395 | $1,080/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.
All 44 states with OR openings