Oregon Minimum Wage Law

Employers in Oregon must conform with these state rules regarding the minimum wage paid to employees.

Effective January 1, 2014, the minimum wage rate in Oregon is $9.10 per hour ($8.95 per hour for 2013; $8.80 per hour for 2012).

Oregon's minimum wage law covers employees except:

• most agricultural laborers
• domestic servants
• administrative, executive or professional employees who:
  • perform predominantly intellectual, managerial, or creative tasks
  • exercise discretion and independent judgment
  • earn a salary and are paid on a salary basis
• federal employees
• employees of an institution whose primary function is education and at which the employee is a student
• employees in the capacity of an outside salesperson or taxicab operator
• employees who perform child care services in their homes or in the child's home
• anyone domiciled at a place of employment for the purpose of being available for emergency or occasional duties
• persons paid for specified hours of employment, the only purpose of which is to be available for call to duty
• persons domiciled at multi-unit accommodations designed to provide other people with temporary or permanent lodging for the purpose of maintenance, management or assisting in management
• persons employed on a seasonal basis at an educational or organized camp generating gross annual income of less than $500,000
• persons employed at nonprofit conference ground or center operated for educational, charitable or religious purposes
• volunteer fire fighters
• companions
• golf caddies
• volunteer golf marshals
• resident managers of adult foster homes
• managers of mobile home parks
• volunteer hosts at government campgrounds