SB 1532, a bill to raise the minimum wage, passed the Oregon Senate on Feb. 11 by 16-12, and the Oregon House on Feb. 17 by 32-26. Once signed by the governor, it will raise Oregon’s minimum wage from its current $9.25 an hour to $13.50 over six years, with a lower wage for Oregon rural counties and a higher wage for the Portland area (within the Urban Growth Boundary).
The bill’s passage led the union-backed Raise the Wage coalition to announce Feb. 29 it will drop its $13.50 minimum wage ballot initiative and a related initiative to let local jurisdictions go higher.
The steering committee of a separate union-backed ballot initiative campaign for a $15-an-hour minimum is expected to determine whether to continue at its meeting tonight.
UPDATE 3/2/16: The steering committee for the coalition behind the $15 ballot measure met March 1 but didn’t reach a decision on whether to go forward. They’ll discuss it again at a meeting March 6.
Noted that it is hard to find the real boundaries for Minium wage in Oregon. Just a big map but no info of the where the lines are.. This is just Terrible info, could do much better..
I agree it would be nice for that info to be simpler and easier to find. It’s all by county except for the “Portland metro area” which is defined as the urban growth boundary (Locals know what that is, but its exact boundaries aren’t super well-known.) Here’s a map you can zoom in on: https://www.oregonmetro.gov/library/urban-growth-boundary/lookup