minimum wage for oregon
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- The current Oregon minimum wage of $9.75 per hour is the lowest amount a non-exempt employee in Oregon can legally be paid for hourly work. Special minimum wage rates, such as the Oregon waitress minimum wage for tipped employees, may apply to certain workers.
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Oregon Adopts Tiered Minimum Wage Increase Effective July 1, 2016 Oregon Adopts Tiered Minimum Wage Increase Effective July 1, 2016. Oregon is the first state in the nation to enact a statewide tiered minimum wage. Oregon’s new minimum wage law will phase in wage increases over a six-year period starting July 1, 2016. Eventually, the law will require employers located in the Portland metro-area to pay a minimum wage $2.25 an hour higher than the minimum wage for the state’s lowest density counties.
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- Facebook0 Twitter0 livefyre Email Print. When Oregon Governor Kate Brown signed a minimum wage bill into law in March, it was the highest statewide wage floor in the U.S. It was also the most convoluted, setting three different wages and raise schedules depending on the area's population.
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The Labor Law for Restaurant Servers & the Minimum Wage A small group of states do not allow any tip credit against the minimum wage and have set their own minimum wage higher than the federal rate. This group includes Alaska, at $7.75 an hour; California, $8; Oregon, $8.80; and Washington, $9.04.
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- The highest average salary in Oregon is in Corvallis, where workers earn an average of $47,120 a year. Portland was No. 2, followed by Eugene-Springfield, where the average salary is $40,900; Salem, where the average salary is $40,560; and Bend, where the average salary is $39,620.
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How much does a Computer Programmer make in Oregon? Average Computer Programmer Hourly Wage in Oregon. Computer Programmers earn a median hourly wage of $36.72. Hourly wages typically start from $21.11 and go up to $55.00.
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Minimum wage increases coming to Oregon this week Tune says some small businesses with slim margins may be able to absorb this week’s jump, but the impact of $15 an hour by 2023 is what’s most concerning. The state’s hourly minimum wage will jump again in July 2017, with Portland metro workers making $11.25, rural workers making $10 and a standard wage of $10.25.
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Understanding the Oregon Minimum Wage Increase Oregon is the first state to set tiered minimum wages based on location. The regional minimum wages will increase each year on July 1. The Oregon minimum wage increase schedule goes up to 2022. Beginning on July 1, 2023, the minimum wages will be adjusted based on inflation. The new Oregon minimum wage is divided into three tiers: a standard wage, a Portland Metro wage, and a nonurban counties wage.
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Oregon's Minimum Wage To Stay Unchanged In 2016 Oregon’s minimum wage will stay the same in 2016. The wage is re-calculated each year because of a state law passed by voters in 2002 that ties it to inflation. The wage will remain stuck at $9.25 this January because it is pegged to the Consumer Price Index, which showed little inflation, Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian said Wednesday.
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Federal Minimum Wage for 2017, 2018 A full time minimum wage worker in Oregon working 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year, will earn $82.00 per day, $410.00 per week, and $21,320.00 per year1. The national poverty line for a family unit consisting of two people is $16,020.00 per year.
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- Starting Jan. 1, 2016, minimum wage workers in Portland will see a $2.60 jump per hour.
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6 things to know about Oregon's new minimum wage law Oregon Gov. Kate Brown celebrates before signing Senate Bill 1532, increasing Oregon's minimum wage according to a tiered system, at the State Capitol in Salem on Wednesday, March 2, 2016. Portland's minimum will rise to $14.75 by 2022, suburban areas to $13.50 and rural areas to $12.50.
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Which states have the lowest minimum wage? Inversely, in states where the set minimum wage is above the federal mark, the higher amount applies. For example, Oregon has a minimum wage of $9.25, as of 2015, which is the lowest hourly wage Oregon workers can receive. The minimum wage has long been a divisive issue among economists since some disagree with the concept of a price floor for labor.
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Oregon's New Minimum Wage Will Cause Unemployment, Yes, Of Course The new proposed minimum will be 78% of the prevailing median wage (ignoring that pesky inflation and wage growth we cannot estimate from here) at that proposed $14.75 an hour. Let’s take Eugene area as being typical of the rest of the state, and the $13.50 proposed there will be 82% of the current $16.50.
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New minimum wage in Minnesota to be highest in the region Minnesota is the only state not on one of the coasts with a minimum wage exceeding $8.50 per hour. Washington state ($9.47 per hour) and Oregon ($9.25) have the highest rates, while California and Massachusetts will rise to $10 per hour at the start of 2016. Washington, D.C., has the highest floor in the country, at $10.50 per hour.
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Minnesota's minimum wage is going to $9.50 an hour by 2016 At $6.15 an hour, Minnesota’s current base rate is lower than all but two of the 45 states that set their own minimum wage. Once it reaches $9.50, it would be higher than any other state’s current minimum wage, though Washington, which is now at $9.32 an hour, and Oregon at $9.10 both index their wages to inflation.
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Student Employee Wage Information for 2017-2018 and Beyond Oregon’s hourly minimum wage in the greater Portland metropolitan area will increase to $11.25 later this year. The change is the first of a six-step progressive increase over the next five years that will conclude with an hourly minimum wage rate of $14.75 (effective July 2022).
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- Full time minimum wage workers in Oregon earn a total of $390.00 per week and approximately $20,280.00 per year (based on a 8 hour days and a 260-day work year) before taxes. The federal poverty threshold for a household of two is $14,570 per year.
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- According to the survey of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average annual and per hour registered nurse salary in Oregon was $80,440 and $38.67, respectively, in May 2013. Their median hourly wage was $38.64.
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Oregon's minimum wage increases But some hope to boost it beyond the $9.25 that took effect on New Year's Day. As political momentum builds for an even larger increase, Oregons minimum wage goes from $9.10 to $9.25 per hour with the start of the new year. The increase is automatic, because Oregon voters in 2002 linked increases with the Consumer Price Index. Oregon is one of 21 states, counting New York on New Years Eve, that increased the minimum wage in the past two days.
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- The ordinance also increases the minimum wage for tipped employees in from the current state minimum of $4.95 to $5.45 in 2015 and $5.95 in 2016, indexed annually to the CPI after 2016. The full text of Minimum Wage ordinance is available HERE.
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What's The Difference Between Minimum Wage and Living Wage in Portland? FastFeatures. Oregon is keeping ahead of the federal minimum wage requirement of $7.25 an hour. The state raised its minimum wage from $9.10 to $9.25 an hour in January 2015. In Portland, the minimum wage for city employees and contractors was raised to $15 an hour in February 2015.
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Oregon minimum wage won't change in 2016 Oregon's minimum wage will remain $9.25 an hour in 2016, state officials announced Wednesday, marking the first time in five years the rate has not increased. The rate is adjusted every year to keep up with rising prices. This year, an index that measures consumer costs flatlined as gasoline prices tumbled.
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- Oregon’s minimum wage is adjusted annually by the increase in the U.S. Consumer Price Index. Washington has the highest minimum wage rate of any state at $9.47 per hour. California’s minimum wage is $9.00 per hour, and Nevada’s minimum wage is $8.25 per hour.
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Wage Rates, Increases and Pay Schedule Each type of student job has an assigned pay range. A student employee should not be paid below the minimum wage rate of the assigned job type. The minimum of the pay range for Student Employee A jobs is set at Oregon's minimum wage, which is adjusted annually each January according to the Portland Area CPI. At SOU the new minimum wage rate is effective mid-December because that is the pay period in which January 1 falls for our student employees.
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- 1 By the last quarter of 1997, the average wage stood at $6.65 an hour, or 50 cents higher than in the similar period of 1996. 2  Adjusting for inflation, this represented a one-year wage increase of 5.4 percent. 3  The Oregon minimum wage rose to $6.00 an hour in January 1, 1998.