Portland
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)
Source: BLS OES + market estimate
What would you take home in Portland?
Take-home, weekly
$346
Take-home, monthly
$1,498
Gross, weekly
$480
Gross, monthly
$2,080
With a 1BR apartment outside the city centre at $1638/mo, rent costs more than your monthly take-home (109% of monthly net).
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
That works out to roughly 41 hours per week. Rent at $1,638 per month is 59 percent of gross monthly earnings, which puts a Portland delivery driver in HUD's “severely cost-burdened” band by the federal definition (over 30 percent of gross income on housing). Measured against net take-home pay, which is what a worker actually has available to spend, the same rent is 82 percent. Affordable rent at this earnings rate, defined by HUD as no more than 30 percent of gross income, would be around $830 per month. Across the 46 cities in the dataset, Portland ranks 28th for hours needed to cover rent, where lower is better.
Pay vs. local labour market
Gross hourly is 104% of local minimum wage, 62% of local median.
Notes
Oregon's minimum wage is tiered by region: Portland Metro $15.45, Standard $14.20, Nonurban $13.20.
View Portland on the interactive map
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/current/oes_38900.htm · archived