The median advertised pay for a travel OR (operating room) contract in Texas is $2,359 per week, with the middle half between $2,144 and $2,457. Measured across 14 active travel OR contracts in Texas at 14 facilities, as of 2026-10-31.
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 11 percent under the $2,653 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, and the compact checker tells you whether yours covers you here.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| Under $2,000 | 1 |
| $2,000 to $2,100 | 2 |
| $2,100 to $2,200 | 2 |
| $2,200 to $2,300 | 1 |
| $2,300 to $2,400 | 1 |
| $2,400 to $2,500 | 4 |
| $2,500 to $2,600 | 0 |
| $2,600 and up | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dallas | 2 | $2,272 | $1,530/mo |
| Abilene | 1 | $2,403 | $940/mo |
| Amarillo | 1 | $2,291 | $920/mo |
| Bedford | 1 | $2,452 | $1,505/mo |
| Harlingen | 1 | $2,062 | $800/mo |
| Jacksonville | 1 | $2,315 | — |
| Midland | 1 | $2,690 | $1,590/mo |
| Odessa | 1 | $2,459 | $1,300/mo |
| Richardson | 1 | $1,866 | $1,800/mo |
| Rockwall | 1 | $2,167 | $1,835/mo |
| Round Rock | 1 | $2,081 | $1,850/mo |
| San Angelo | 1 | $2,684 | $1,005/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 rose 6.3 percent, from $2,218 to $2,358 a week. Measured against the seven days before it, across 13 open postings, 2026-10-18 to 2026-10-31.
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