The median advertised pay for a travel PACU (post-anesthesia care unit) contract in Oklahoma is $1,926 per week, with the middle half between $1,869 and $2,032. Measured across 4 active travel PACU contracts in Oklahoma at 2 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.
Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home. With only 4 open contracts in Oklahoma, treat that median as an indication rather than a rate: the contracts below are the useful part of this page.
That is 18 percent under the $2,353 national median for travel PACU contracts.
Oklahoma 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 |
|---|---|
| $1,700 to $1,800 | 1 |
| $1,800 to $1,900 | 0 |
| $1,900 to $2,000 | 2 |
| $2,000 to $2,100 | 0 |
| $2,100 to $2,200 | 0 |
| $2,200 to $2,300 | 0 |
| $2,300 and up | 1 |
All 4 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Oklahoma has the 48th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 12 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 37 percent under, while goods sit 6 percent under and services 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tulsa | 3 | $1,919 | $950/mo |
| Oklahoma City | 1 | $2,332 | $940/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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