The median advertised pay for a travel OR (operating room) contract in Virginia is $2,614 per week, with the middle half between $2,471 and $2,962. Measured across 10 active travel OR contracts in Virginia at 7 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 2 percent under the $2,675 national median for travel OR contracts.
Virginia 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 |
|---|---|
| $2,300 to $2,450 | 3 |
| $2,450 to $2,600 | 2 |
| $2,600 to $2,750 | 1 |
| $2,750 to $2,900 | 1 |
| $2,900 to $3,050 | 1 |
| $3,050 to $3,200 | 2 |
All 10 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Virginia has the 16th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 1 percent over the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 7 percent over, while goods sit 0 percent over and services 0 percent over. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fredericksburg | 2 | $3,069 | $1,785/mo |
| Newport News | 2 | $2,705 | $1,320/mo |
| Norfolk | 2 | $2,503 | $1,400/mo |
| Abingdon | 1 | $2,600 | — |
| Chesapeake | 1 | $3,091 | $1,660/mo |
| Falls Church | 1 | $2,302 | $2,220/mo |
| Lynchburg | 1 | $2,439 | $1,020/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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