The minimum wage is 15.55 USD per hour for Standard rate: areas outside the Portland metro urban growth boundary and outside the nonurban counties (ORS 653.025). student-learners: 75% of the general rate. individuals employed in agriculture: excluded from the minimum wage. casual domestic service: excluded from the minimum wage. administrative, executive or professional employees: excluded from the minimum wage. federal employees: excluded from the minimum wage. students employed by their school: excluded from the minimum wage. outside salespersons and taxicab operators: excluded from the minimum wage. individuals domiciled at a place of employment for emergency or occasional duties: excluded from the minimum wage. individuals paid to be available for recall: excluded from the minimum wage. resident maintenance/management at multiunit accommodations: excluded from the minimum wage. seasonal organized camp employees: excluded from the minimum wage. nonprofit conference ground employees: excluded from the minimum wage. volunteer firefighters: excluded from the minimum wage. child care providers in the home: excluded from the minimum wage. companionship services: excluded from the minimum wage. golf caddies: excluded from the minimum wage. volunteer golf course marshals: excluded from the minimum wage. adult foster home resident managers: excluded from the minimum wage. mobile home park resident maintenance/management: excluded from the minimum wage. volunteer campground hosts: excluded from the minimum wage. nonprofessional ski patrollers and ski race volunteers: excluded from the minimum wage. minor league baseball players: excluded from the minimum wage.
Effective from ; verified on . The state rule (Oregon) is the highest of the 2 levels compared; every level is listed below.
The minimum wage is 7.25 USD per hour for Covered, nonexempt workers. tipped employees: 2.13 USD per hour. employees under 20 years of age (youth minimum wage): 4.25 USD per hour. Executive, administrative, and professional employees, outside sales employees, and employees in certain computer-related occupations: excluded from the minimum wage. Employees of certain seasonal amusement or recreational establishments, certain small newspapers, seamen on foreign vessels, fishing operations, newspaper delivery: excluded from the minimum wage. Farmworkers of small farm employers: excluded from the minimum wage. Casual babysitters and companions to the elderly or infirm: excluded from the minimum wage.
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Amount
7.25
Currency
USD
Per unit
hour
Applies to
Covered, nonexempt workers
Exceptions
Amount
2.13
Category
tipped employees
Condition
individuals engaged in occupations in which they customarily and regularly receive more than $30 a month in tips. The employer may consider tips as part of wages, but the employer must pay at least $2.13 an hour in direct wages.
Amount
4.25
Category
employees under 20 years of age (youth minimum wage)
Condition
permitted for employees under 20 years of age during their first 90 consecutive calendar days of employment with an employer
Category
Executive, administrative, and professional employees, outside sales employees, and employees in certain computer-related occupations
Excluded
yes
Condition
Exemptions from Both Minimum Wage and Overtime Pay: Executive, administrative, and professional employees (including teachers and academic administrative personnel in elementary and secondary schools), outside sales employees, and employees in certain computer-related occupations (as defined in DOL regulations)
State: Oregonanswers
The minimum wage is 15.55 USD per hour for Standard rate: areas outside the Portland metro urban growth boundary and outside the nonurban counties (ORS 653.025). student-learners: 75% of the general rate. individuals employed in agriculture: excluded from the minimum wage. casual domestic service: excluded from the minimum wage. administrative, executive or professional employees: excluded from the minimum wage. federal employees: excluded from the minimum wage. students employed by their school: excluded from the minimum wage. outside salespersons and taxicab operators: excluded from the minimum wage. individuals domiciled at a place of employment for emergency or occasional duties: excluded from the minimum wage. individuals paid to be available for recall: excluded from the minimum wage. resident maintenance/management at multiunit accommodations: excluded from the minimum wage. seasonal organized camp employees: excluded from the minimum wage. nonprofit conference ground employees: excluded from the minimum wage. volunteer firefighters: excluded from the minimum wage. child care providers in the home: excluded from the minimum wage. companionship services: excluded from the minimum wage. golf caddies: excluded from the minimum wage. volunteer golf course marshals: excluded from the minimum wage. adult foster home resident managers: excluded from the minimum wage. mobile home park resident maintenance/management: excluded from the minimum wage. volunteer campground hosts: excluded from the minimum wage. nonprofessional ski patrollers and ski race volunteers: excluded from the minimum wage. minor league baseball players: excluded from the minimum wage.
Version 3 · effective from · verified on
Verification: approved by a person (carried over from Juriset's first release).
Tiers
Amount
16.8
Region
Portland metro
Condition
Within the urban growth boundary, including parts of Clackamas, Multnomah, and Washington Counties
Amount
14.55
Region
Non-urban
Condition
Baker, Coos, Crook, Curry, Douglas, Gilliam, Grant, Harney, Jefferson, Klamath, Lake, Malheur, Morrow, Sherman, Umatilla, Union, Wallowa, and Wheeler Counties
Amount
15.55
Currency
USD
Upcoming changes
No published changes are waiting to take effect.
Change history
Federal: United States
Version
Effective
Published
Change
Value
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new
minimum_wage in us: version 2, effective 2026-10-23, published (new)
The minimum wage is 7.25 USD per hour for employees engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce, or employed in an enterprise engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce. Newly hired employees who are less than 20 years old: 4.25 USD per hour.
3in effect
correction
minimum_wage in us: version 3, effective 2009-07-24, published (correction); replaces version 2. Replaces version 2 (published effective 2026-10-23, the fetch date; its source stated no date)
The minimum wage is 7.25 USD per hour for Covered, nonexempt workers. tipped employees: 2.13 USD per hour. employees under 20 years of age (youth minimum wage): 4.25 USD per hour. Executive, administrative, and professional employees, outside sales employees, and employees in certain computer-related occupations: excluded from the minimum wage. Employees of certain seasonal amusement or recreational establishments, certain small newspapers, seamen on foreign vessels, fishing operations, newspaper delivery: excluded from the minimum wage. Farmworkers of small farm employers: excluded from the minimum wage. Casual babysitters and companions to the elderly or infirm: excluded from the minimum wage.
State: Oregon
Version
Effective
Published
Change
Value
3in effect
new
minimum_wage in us-or: version 3, effective 2026-07-01, published (new)
The minimum wage is 15.55 USD per hour for Standard rate: areas outside the Portland metro urban growth boundary and outside the nonurban counties (ORS 653.025). student-learners: 75% of the general rate. individuals employed in agriculture: excluded from the minimum wage. casual domestic service: excluded from the minimum wage. administrative, executive or professional employees: excluded from the minimum wage. federal employees: excluded from the minimum wage. students employed by their school: excluded from the minimum wage. outside salespersons and taxicab operators: excluded from the minimum wage. individuals domiciled at a place of employment for emergency or occasional duties: excluded from the minimum wage. individuals paid to be available for recall: excluded from the minimum wage. resident maintenance/management at multiunit accommodations: excluded from the minimum wage. seasonal organized camp employees: excluded from the minimum wage. nonprofit conference ground employees: excluded from the minimum wage. volunteer firefighters: excluded from the minimum wage. child care providers in the home: excluded from the minimum wage. companionship services: excluded from the minimum wage. golf caddies: excluded from the minimum wage. volunteer golf course marshals: excluded from the minimum wage. adult foster home resident managers: excluded from the minimum wage. mobile home park resident maintenance/management: excluded from the minimum wage. volunteer campground hosts: excluded from the minimum wage. nonprofessional ski patrollers and ski race volunteers: excluded from the minimum wage. minor league baseball players: excluded from the minimum wage.
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Category
Employees of certain seasonal amusement or recreational establishments, certain small newspapers, seamen on foreign vessels, fishing operations, newspaper delivery
Excluded
yes
Condition
Exemptions from Both Minimum Wage and Overtime Pay: Employees of certain seasonal amusement or recreational establishments, employees of certain small newspapers, seamen employed on foreign vessels, employees engaged in fishing operations, and employees engaged in newspaper delivery
Category
Farmworkers of small farm employers
Excluded
yes
Condition
Exemptions from Both Minimum Wage and Overtime Pay: Farmworkers employed by anyone who used no more than 500 “man-days” of farm labor in any calendar quarter of the preceding calendar year
Category
Casual babysitters and companions to the elderly or infirm
Excluded
yes
Condition
Exemptions from Both Minimum Wage and Overtime Pay: Casual babysitters and persons employed as companions to the elderly or infirm.
Covered, nonexempt workers are entitled to a minimum wage of $7.25 per hour effective July 24, 2009. … Tipped employees are individuals engaged in occupations in which they customarily and regularly receive more than $30 a month in tips. The employer may consider tips as part of wages, but the employer must pay at least $2.13 an hour in direct wages. … A minimum wage of not less than $4.25 an hour is permitted for employees under 20 years of age during their first 90 consecutive calendar days of employment with an employer. … Exemptions from Both Minimum Wage and Overtime Pay … Executive, administrative, and professional employees (including teachers and academic administrative personnel in elementary and secondary schools), outside sales employees, and employees in certain computer-related occupations (as defined in DOL regulations); … Employees of certain seasonal amusement or recreational establishments, employees of certain small newspapers, seamen employed on foreign vessels, employees engaged in fishing operations, and employees engaged in newspaper delivery; … Farmworkers employed by anyone who used no more than 500 “man-days” of farm labor in any calendar quarter of the preceding calendar year; … Casual babysitters and persons employed as companions to the elderly or infirm.
(C) $7.25 an hour, beginning 24 months after that 60th day; … (1) In lieu of the rate prescribed by subsection (a)(1), any employer may pay any employee of such employer, during the first 90 consecutive calendar days after such employee is initially employed by such employer, a wage which is not less than $4.25 an hour. … (5) This subsection shall only apply to an employee who has not attained the age of 20 years
Standard rate: areas outside the Portland metro urban growth boundary and outside the nonurban counties (ORS 653.025)
Exceptions
Category
student-learners
Condition
"Student-learner" means a student who is receiving instruction in an accredited school, college or university and who is employed on a part-time basis, pursuant to a bona fide professional training program; employers shall pay student-learners at least 75 percent of the minimum wage prescribed by ORS 653.025
Percent of general
75
Category
individuals employed in agriculture
Excluded
yes
Condition
An individual employed in agriculture if the conditions of ORS 653.020(1)(a) to (e) apply, e.g. certain hand harvest or pruning laborers paid on a piece-rate basis, the parent, spouse, child or other member of the employer's immediate family, or an employee principally engaged in the range production of livestock who earns a salary and is paid on a salary basis
Category
casual domestic service
Excluded
yes
Condition
An individual employed in domestic service on a casual basis in or about a family home.
Category
administrative, executive or professional employees
Excluded
yes
Condition
An individual engaged in administrative, executive or professional work who performs predominantly intellectual, managerial or creative tasks, exercises discretion and independent judgment, and earns a salary and is paid on a salary basis
Category
federal employees
Excluded
yes
Condition
An individual employed by the United States.
Category
students employed by their school
Excluded
yes
Condition
An individual who is employed by an institution whose function is primary or secondary education, and in which the individual is an enrolled student.
Category
outside salespersons and taxicab operators
Excluded
yes
Condition
An individual engaged in the capacity of an outside salesperson or taxicab operator.
Category
individuals domiciled at a place of employment for emergency or occasional duties
Excluded
yes
Condition
An individual domiciled at a place of employment for the purpose of being available for emergency or occasional duties for time other than that spent performing these duties, provided that when the individual performs emergency or occasional duties, the individual must be paid no less than the wage specified in ORS 653.025.
Category
individuals paid to be available for recall
Excluded
yes
Condition
An individual paid for specified hours of employment, the only purpose of which is to be available for recall to duty.
Category
resident maintenance/management at multiunit accommodations
Excluded
yes
Condition
An individual domiciled at multiunit accommodations designed to provide other people with temporary or permanent lodging, for the purpose of maintenance, management or assisting in the management of same.
Category
seasonal organized camp employees
Excluded
yes
Condition
An individual employed on a seasonal basis at an organized camp operated for profit that generates gross annual income of less than $500,000, or a nonprofit organized camp
Category
nonprofit conference ground employees
Excluded
yes
Condition
An individual employed at a nonprofit conference ground or center operated for educational, charitable or religious purposes.
Category
volunteer firefighters
Excluded
yes
Condition
An individual who performs services as a volunteer firefighter, as defined in ORS 652.050.
Category
child care providers in the home
Excluded
yes
Condition
An individual who performs child care services in the home of the individual or in the home of the child.
Category
companionship services
Excluded
yes
Condition
An individual employed in domestic service employment in or about a family home to provide companionship services for individuals who, because of age or infirmity, are unable to care for themselves.
Category
golf caddies
Excluded
yes
Condition
An individual who performs service as a caddy at a golf course in an established program for the training and supervision of caddies under the direction of a person who is an employee of the golf course.
Category
volunteer golf course marshals
Excluded
yes
Condition
An individual who volunteers as a golf course marshal if the conditions of ORS 653.020(16)(a) to (c) are met
Category
adult foster home resident managers
Excluded
yes
Condition
An individual employed as a resident manager by an adult foster home that is licensed pursuant to ORS 443.705 to 443.825 and who is domiciled at the adult foster home.
Category
mobile home park resident maintenance/management
Excluded
yes
Condition
An individual residing in a mobile home park or manufactured dwelling park designed to provide other people with temporary or permanent lodging, for the purpose of maintenance, management or in assisting in the management of same.
Category
volunteer campground hosts
Excluded
yes
Condition
An individual who volunteers as a campground host and who resides in a campground owned by a public agency that provides temporary accommodations for travelers, whether under public or private management, and who provides information and emergency assistance.
Category
nonprofessional ski patrollers and ski race volunteers
Excluded
yes
Condition
An individual registered as a nonprofessional ski patroller, or performing services for nonprofit ski or snowboard races, who receives no wage other than passes authorizing access to and use of a ski area
Category
minor league baseball players
Excluded
yes
Condition
An individual who has entered into a contract to play minor league baseball for a professional sports organization and who is subject to a collective bargaining agreement, the terms of which provide for the payment of wages and working conditions.
For July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2027, those rates are: … $16.80 per hour - Portland metro … Within the urban growth boundary, including parts of Clackamas, Multnomah, and Washington Counties … $15.55 per hour - Standard … Benton, Clatsop, Columbia, Deschutes, Hood River, Jackson, Josephine, Lane, Lincoln, Linn, Marion, Polk, Tillamook, Wasco, Yamhill, and parts of Clackamas, Multnomah, & Washington outside the urban growth boundary. … $14.55 per hour - Non-urban … Baker, Coos, Crook, Curry, Douglas, Gilliam, Grant, Harney, Jefferson, Klamath, Lake, Malheur, Morrow, Sherman, Umatilla, Union, Wallowa, and Wheeler Counties
(b) “Student-learner” means a student who is receiving instruction in an accredited school, college or university and who is employed on a part-time basis, pursuant to a bona fide professional training program. … (2) Notwithstanding ORS 653.025, employers shall pay student-learners at least 75 percent of the minimum wage prescribed by ORS 653.025. … ORS 653.010 to 653.261 do not apply to any of the following employees: … (1) An individual employed in agriculture if: … (b) Such individual is the parent, spouse, child or other member of the employer’s immediate family; … (e) Such employee is principally engaged in the range production of livestock and earns a salary and is paid on a salary basis. … (2) An individual employed in domestic service on a casual basis in or about a family home. … (3) An individual engaged in administrative, executive or professional work who: … (c) Earns a salary and is paid on a salary basis. … (4) An individual employed by the United States. … (5) An individual who is employed by an institution whose function is primary or secondary education, and in which the individual is an enrolled student. … (6) An individual engaged in the capacity of an outside salesperson or taxicab operator. … (7) An individual domiciled at a place of employment for the purpose of being available for emergency or occasional duties for time other than that spent performing these duties, provided that when the individual performs emergency or occasional duties, the individual must be paid no less than the wage specified in ORS 653.025. … (8) An individual paid for specified hours of employment, the only purpose of which is to be available for recall to duty. … (9) An individual domiciled at multiunit accommodations designed to provide other people with temporary or permanent lodging, for the purpose of maintenance, management or assisting in the management of same. … (10) An individual employed on a seasonal basis at: … (a) An organized camp operated for profit that generates gross annual income of less than $500,000; or … (b) A nonprofit organized camp. … (11) An individual employed at a nonprofit conference ground or center operated for educational, charitable or religious purposes. … (12) An individual who performs services as a volunteer firefighter, as defined in ORS 652.050. … (13) An individual who performs child care services in the home of the individual or in the home of the child. … (14) An individual employed in domestic service employment in or about a family home to provide companionship services for individuals who, because of age or infirmity, are unable to care for themselves. … (15) An individual who performs service as a caddy at a golf course in an established program for the training and supervision of caddies under the direction of a person who is an employee of the golf course. … (16) An individual who volunteers as a golf course marshal if: … (17) An individual employed as a resident manager by an adult foster home that is licensed pursuant to ORS 443.705 to 443.825 and who is domiciled at the adult foster home. … (18) An individual residing in a mobile home park or manufactured dwelling park designed to provide other people with temporary or permanent lodging, for the purpose of maintenance, management or in assisting in the management of same. … (19) An individual who volunteers as a campground host and who resides in a campground owned by a public agency that provides temporary accommodations for travelers, whether under public or private management, and who provides information and emergency assistance. … (20) An individual who: … (a) Is registered with the National Ski Patrol or a similar nonprofit ski patrol organization as a nonprofessional ski patroller and who receives no wage other than passes authorizing access to and use of a ski area … (21) An individual who has entered into a contract to play minor league baseball for a professional sports organization and who is subject to a collective bargaining agreement, the terms of which provide for the payment of wages and working conditions.