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OR Travel Nurse Jobs in New York

Explore travel operating room nurse jobs in New York, from city academic surgical programs to upstate regional hospitals, with pay shown.

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    New York OR regions and referral patterns

    OR travel nurse jobs in New York change substantially across New York City, Long Island, Hudson Valley, the Capital Region, Central New York, and western markets. Academic centers may use residents and dedicated specialty teams, while regional hospitals can expect broader room ownership and transfer awareness. Match the posting's cardiac, neuro, transplant, orthopedic, general, robotics, or women's surgery needs to cases you have handled recently. Ask how travelers are assigned to services, how technology and preference cards are introduced, who covers late cases, and what call includes. Geography organizes the search, but the facility's referral role and support model define the assignment.

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    Use live listings to compare market, referral role, service line, shift, call, resident structure, and room scope.

    8 Operating Room contracts are open in New York right now, with +3 added in the last 7 days and 1 already filled. Open postings have been live about 17 days on average.

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    Open Operating Room jobs
    17 days
    Median time active
    +3
    Added last 7 days
    29,104
    New York hip arthroplasty procedures; 149 hospitals reporting (CDC/NHSN 2024)
    Why demand stays strong
    18,348
    2024 New York colon surgery volume from 149 acute care hospitals (CDC/NHSN)
    11,940
    138 New York hospitals reported abdominal hysterectomy activity in 2024 (CDC/NHSN)
    9,656
    CABG procedures across 35 New York hospitals, CDC/NHSN 2024

    Live counts from the jobs feed, updated daily. Demand figures from public workforce data, sources noted with each figure.

    Pay by city · OR · New York

    Compare New York pay across surgical markets

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    Compare New York rates by market only after reviewing service line, resident model, call, floating, and assignment scope.

    Highest weekly pay · Operating Room
    Rochester
    $2,969
    Albany
    $2,562
    Glens Falls
    $2,411
    Elmira
    $2,383
    Syracuse
    $2,359

    Place the weekly figure beside referral depth, specialty ownership, callback duties, and the support behind the room.

    Weekly pay reflects current open Advantis contracts — marketplace contract value, not a staff-nurse wage.

    New York hospital evidence for spine and joint services

    New York's procedure counts highlight spine and joint-replacement work. The current state table assigns 26,508 spinal fusion procedures to New York across 110 participating hospitals. A second procedure record shows New York's participating hospitals submitted 24,844 knee arthroplasty procedures, with 64 facilities represented in 2024. Different reporting groups support the two values, so they should not be added together or treated as market totals. Spinal fusion and knee arthroplasty show reported work in two equipment-intensive services. New York City and Long Island referral centers may use dedicated specialty teams, while Hudson Valley, Capital Region, Central, and Western New York hospitals can structure coverage differently. Ask about neuromonitoring, implants, resident roles, call, and relief coverage. The counts document participating hospitals, not every New York procedure.

    New York spinal fusion and knee figures describe 2024 NHSN reporting and do not represent all surgery, room capacity, or hiring.
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    New York OR Travel Jobs: Start With the License

    Is there any way to work New York ORs without a New York license?
    No. New York enacted compact legislation, but it hasn't implemented it, so a multistate license doesn't authorize practice here yet, full stop. You'll apply by endorsement through the State Education Department's Office of the Professions, you should start this process as soon as possible.
    What do New York OR programs expect from travelers?
    It depends heavily on the room, but the cards are consistent: BLS is always required, and some New York facilities also require CNOR. The academic centers run residents and dedicated cardiac, neuro, transplant, and robotics teams, and they're hiring for recent depth in the line. Regional hospitals upstate expect broader ownership of the room. Expect the year-or-two-recent standard.
    Why is the pay spread so wide across New York?
    Because unit need, cost of living, and shift split this state more than most. City stipends answer to city rents; Capital Region and western-market stipends answer to far cheaper ones; a room that has to fill posts up in either place; and nights add their premium everywhere. A strong upstate rate and a strong city rate are different numbers for different lives. The chart above shows live weekly pay by city; read it next to what housing costs where you'd sleep.
    What's the smart order of operations for a New York OR contract?
    License first, always, since the endorsement through the Office of the Professions is the long pole; it's the step you can't compress. While it processes, finish the file: BLS, a skills checklist by service line, references, immunizations. Then decide your market, because the city and upstate are different searches. Nurses who run it in that order start when they planned to; the reverse order runs on luck.
    Is New York OR work all in the city?
    Not even close. Long Island, the Hudson Valley, the Capital Region, Central New York, and the western markets all staff ORs too, and the regional hospitals often give travelers wider room ownership than a subspecialized city team would. Housing math changes dramatically upstate too. The city is one option in a state that holds a half dozen.
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