2021 Oregon Revised Statutes
Chapter 653 - Minimum Wages; Employment Conditions; Minors
Section 653.025 - Minimum wage rate; rules.


(a) For calendar year 2003, $6.90.
(b) From January 1, 2004, to June 30, 2016, a rate adjusted for inflation as calculated by the commissioner.
(c) From July 1, 2016, to June 30, 2017, $9.75.
(d) From July 1, 2017, to June 30, 2018, $10.25.
(e) From July 1, 2018, to June 30, 2019, $10.75.
(f) From July 1, 2019, to June 30, 2020, $11.25.
(g) From July 1, 2020, to June 30, 2021, $12.
(h) From July 1, 2021, to June 30, 2022, $12.75.
(i) From July 1, 2022, to June 30, 2023, $13.50.
(j) After June 30, 2023, beginning on July 1 of each year, a rate adjusted annually for inflation as described in subsection (5) of this section.
(2) If the employer is located within the urban growth boundary of a metropolitan service district organized under ORS chapter 268, except as provided by ORS 652.020 and the rules of the commissioner issued under ORS 653.030 and 653.261, for each hour of work time that the employee is gainfully employed, no employer shall employ or agree to employ any employee at wages computed at a rate lower than:
(a) From July 1, 2016, to June 30, 2017, $9.75.
(b) From July 1, 2017, to June 30, 2018, $11.25.
(c) From July 1, 2018, to June 30, 2019, $12.
(d) From July 1, 2019, to June 30, 2020, $12.50.
(e) From July 1, 2020, to June 30, 2021, $13.25.
(f) From July 1, 2021, to June 30, 2022, $14.
(g) From July 1, 2022, to June 30, 2023, $14.75.
(h) After June 30, 2023, $1.25 per hour more than the minimum wage determined under subsection (1)(j) of this section.
(3) If the employer is located within a nonurban county as described in ORS 653.026, except as provided by ORS 652.020 and the rules of the commissioner issued under ORS 653.030 and 653.261, for each hour of work time that the employee is gainfully employed, no employer shall employ or agree to employ any employee at wages computed at a rate lower than:
(a) From July 1, 2016, to June 30, 2017, $9.50.
(b) From July 1, 2017, to June 30, 2018, $10.
(c) From July 1, 2018, to June 30, 2019, $10.50.
(d) From July 1, 2019, to June 30, 2020, $11.
(e) From July 1, 2020, to June 30, 2021, $11.50.
(f) From July 1, 2021, to June 30, 2022, $12.
(g) From July 1, 2022, to June 30, 2023, $12.50.
(h) After June 30, 2023, $1 per hour less than the minimum wage determined under subsection (1)(j) of this section.
(4) The commissioner shall adopt rules for determining an employer’s location under subsection (2) of this section.
(5)(a) The Oregon minimum wage shall be adjusted for inflation as provided in paragraph (b) of this subsection.
(b) No later than April 30 of each year, beginning in 2023, the commissioner shall calculate an adjustment of the wage amount specified in subsection (1)(j) of this section based upon the increase, if any, from March of the preceding year to March of the year in which the calculation is made in the U.S. City Average Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers for All Items as prepared by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor or its successor.
(c) The wage amount as adjusted under this subsection shall be rounded to the nearest five cents.
(d) The wage amount as adjusted under this subsection becomes effective as the new Oregon minimum wage amount, replacing the minimum wage amount specified in subsection (1)(j) of this section, on July 1 of the year in which the calculation is made. [1967 c.596 §4; 1973 c.403 §3; 1975 c.504 §1; 1979 c.832 §1; 1979 c.886 §1; 1985 c.99 §2; 1985 c.161 §1; 1989 c.446 §4; 1997 c.1 §1; 2003 c.2 §1; 2016 c.12 §1; 2017 c.17 §52]

Structure 2021 Oregon Revised Statutes

2021 Oregon Revised Statutes

Volume : 16 - Trade Practices, Labor and Employment

Chapter 653 - Minimum Wages; Employment Conditions; Minors

Section 653.010 - Definitions for ORS 653.010 to 653.261.

Section 653.017 - Local minimum wage requirements; preemption; exceptions.

Section 653.020 - Excluded employees.

Section 653.022 - "Piece-rate-work-day" defined for ORS 653.020.

Section 653.025 - Minimum wage rate; rules.

Section 653.026 - "Nonurban county" defined for ORS 653.025.

Section 653.033 - Schedule to increase certain subminimum wage rates for individuals with disabilities.

Section 653.035 - Deducting value of lodging, meals and other benefits furnished by employer; treatment of commissions and tips.

Section 653.040 - Powers of commissioner; rules.

Section 653.045 - Records to be kept by employers; itemization of deductions from wages.

Section 653.055 - Liability of noncomplying employer; contrary agreements no defense; wage claims; suits to enjoin future violations; attorney fees.

Section 653.060 - Discharging or discriminating against employee prohibited.

Section 653.065 - Application of Administrative Procedures Act.

Section 653.070 - Student-learners special wage; conditions; rules; penalties.

Section 653.075 - Legislative findings on breast-feeding.

Section 653.077 - Expressing milk in workplace; rules.

Section 653.079 - Advisory committee on expressing milk in workplace; membership; duties.

Section 653.256 - Civil penalty for general employment statute or rule violations.

Section 653.261 - Minimum employment conditions; overtime; rules; meal periods; exemptions; penalty.

Section 653.263 - Overtime for persons employed by seafood processors.

Section 653.265 - Overtime for persons employed in canneries, driers and packing plants; exceptions; remedies; penalties.

Section 653.268 - Overtime for labor directly employed by public employers; special provisions for correctional facility nursing staff.

Section 653.269 - Exceptions to ORS 653.268; rules.

Section 653.280 - Employer to safeguard employee’s trade equipment.

Section 653.295 - Noncompetition agreements; bonus restriction agreements; applicability of restrictions.

Section 653.300 - Health benefit plan options for certain employees; limitation on cost to employer or health benefit plan for exercise of option.

Section 653.307 - Annual employment certificates; effect of failure by employer to comply; school districts required to cooperate with bureau; rules.

Section 653.315 - Working hours for children under 16 years of age; exceptions; mealtimes; posting notice of hours.

Section 653.320 - Employment of children under 14 years; exceptions.

Section 653.326 - Employment of professionally trained minors allowed with permit.

Section 653.330 - Employment of minors in certain logging operations prohibited.

Section 653.340 - Employment of minors for message and delivery service.

Section 653.350 - Employment of children under 12 years for certain agricultural labor; conditions.

Section 653.360 - Employment of minors in certain boating, fishing and agricultural situations.

Section 653.365 - Civil penalty exemption for unlawful employment of minors by parents or persons standing in place of parents.

Section 653.370 - Civil penalty for unlawful employment of minors.

Section 653.403 - Visitation rights of bureau; prosecution of offenses against child labor laws.

Section 653.412 - Definitions.

Section 653.422 - Covered employees; integrated enterprises; rules.

Section 653.428 - Good faith estimate of work schedule.

Section 653.432 - Voluntary standby list; penalties.

Section 653.436 - Advance notice of work schedule.

Section 653.442 - Right to rest between work shifts.

Section 653.450 - Employee right to input into work schedule.

Section 653.455 - Compensation for work schedule changes; exceptions.

Section 653.460 - Notice and posting requirements.

Section 653.465 - Record retention requirements.

Section 653.470 - Retaliation prohibited.

Section 653.480 - Enforcement; right of action; penalties.

Section 653.485 - Legislative intent.

Section 653.490 - Local work schedule requirements; preemption; exceptions.

Section 653.547 - Definitions; overtime; meal and rest periods; employment conditions; rules.

Section 653.549 - Rules.

Section 653.551 - Unlawful employment discrimination; civil remedies and penalties.

Section 653.553 - Short title.

Section 653.601 - Definitions for ORS 653.601 to 653.661.

Section 653.606 - Employee count; paid and unpaid sick time; rules; accrual, use and carryover amounts.

Section 653.611 - Substantially equivalent policies.

Section 653.616 - Allowable uses of sick time.

Section 653.621 - Minimum use increments; notice to employer; rules.

Section 653.626 - Medical verification.

Section 653.631 - Accrual amount records.

Section 653.641 - Unlawful practices.

Section 653.646 - Multiemployer exception; mandate to establish sick time policy for home care workers and consumer employed personal support workers.

Section 653.651 - Enforcement.

Section 653.656 - Rules.