The median advertised pay for a travel PCU (progressive care unit) contract in Oregon is $2,323 per week, with the middle half between $2,207 and $2,413. Measured across 5 active travel PCU contracts in Oregon at 4 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 1 percent over the $2,302 national median for travel PCU contracts.
Oregon is not a Nurse Licensure Compact state, so you need a Oregon license to work here even if you hold a multistate license. The compact state list explains which states issue one, and the compact checker tells you whether yours covers you here.
| Weekly rate | Open contracts |
|---|---|
| $2,200 to $2,250 | 2 |
| $2,250 to $2,300 | 0 |
| $2,300 to $2,350 | 1 |
| $2,350 to $2,400 | 0 |
| $2,400 to $2,450 | 1 |
| $2,450 to $2,500 | 0 |
| $2,500 and up | 1 |
All 5 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.
Oregon has the 12th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 3 percent over the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 9 percent over, while goods sit 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salem | 2 | $2,207 | $1,275/mo |
| Bend | 1 | $2,413 | $1,410/mo |
| Corvallis | 1 | $2,323 | $1,290/mo |
| Portland | 1 | $2,536 | $1,790/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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