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🇺🇸United States · High income · 2026-Q3

Portland

41composite score · #33 of 50

MEDIUM · sourced, not yet live-verified

MEDIUM 2026-04-29 (Round F), newly added. Oregon has strong wage protections but no gig-delivery-specific minimum. Earnings figure is a market-median estimate. To promote to HIGH: need an Oregon BOLI publication including gig delivery, or a Fairwork-style independent rating.

Only HIGH-confidence cities carry a full verification audit. See the methodology for what each tier means.

Earnings (USD per hour)

Net, after tax & expensesn/a
Gross$16.00/hr

Source: BLS OES + market estimate

What would you take home in Portland?

30hrs

Take-home, weekly

n/a

Take-home, monthly

n/a

Gross, weekly

$480

Gross, monthly

$2,080

Take-home is gross hourly minus an estimated tax/expense rate per country. See the methodology page for the derivation. This widget assumes you actually work the hours you set. For app-based delivery, a portion of logged-in time is unpaid waiting; the headline rate reflects engaged time only where regulators have defined it.

Cost of living vs. earnings

Hours of work for one month's rent (1BR outside centre)330 hours
Rent, 1BR outside centre$1638/mo
Restaurant meal (mid-range)$21.00

Pay vs. local labour market

Minimum wage$16.80/hr
Median wage (all occupations)$29.18/hr

Gross hourly is 45% of local minimum wage, 26% of local median.

Notes

Oregon's minimum wage is tiered by region: Portland Metro $16.80, Standard $15.55, Nonurban $14.55, effective 1 July 2026 to 30 June 2027.

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See full source citations for this city on the sources page. Read about how each metric is computed in the methodology.

Primary earnings source: www.bls.gov/oes/special-requests/oesm25ma.zip · archived