The current minimum wage rate in Oregon is $6.50 per hour.
Oregon's minimum wage law covers all employees except most agricultural
laborers; domestic servants; administrative, executive or professional employees
who: (a) perform predominantly intellectual, managerial, or creative tasks, (b)
exercise discretion and independent judgment and (c) 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
multiunit 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; resident
managers of adult foster homes; managers of mobile home parks; and volunteer
hosts at government campgrounds.