The median advertised pay for a travel OR (operating room) contract in West Virginia is $2,270 per week, with the middle half between $2,162 and $2,482. Measured across 10 active travel OR contracts in West Virginia at 7 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home.
That is 13 percent under the $2,597 national median for travel OR contracts.
West 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.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| $2,000 to $2,150 | 2 |
| $2,150 to $2,300 | 3 |
| $2,300 to $2,450 | 2 |
| $2,450 to $2,600 | 1 |
| $2,600 to $2,750 | 0 |
| $2,750 to $2,900 | 1 |
| $2,900 and up | 1 |
All 10 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
West Virginia has the 43th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 11 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 46 percent under, while goods sit 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charleston | 3 | $2,009 | $860/mo |
| Martinsburg | 3 | $2,755 | $965/mo |
| Huntington | 2 | $2,175 | $895/mo |
| Beckley | 1 | $2,517 | $730/mo |
| Wheeling | 1 | $2,374 | $840/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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