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The Portland City Council is weighing a controversial proposed hike to the city’s minimum wage.

The proposal would increase the minimum wage from $15.50 per hour to $20 per hour within four years. (The statewide hourly minimum wage is $14.65.)

The proposal does not include a wage hike for tipped workers who are currently paid an hourly wage of $7.75, but employers are required to ensure that wages and tips combined total $15.50 per hour. 

While inflation pressures have made it hard to survive on the minimum wage, many business owners are concerned the hike would cut already thin margins. 

Do you support an increase in Portland's minimum wage?
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The Portland City Council is weighing a controversial proposed hike to the city’s minimum wage.

The proposal would increase the minimum wage from $15.50 per hour to $20 per hour within four years. (The statewide hourly minimum wage is $14.65.)

The proposal does not include a wage hike for tipped workers who are currently paid an hourly wage of $7.75, but employers are required to ensure that wages and tips combined total $15.50 per hour. 

While inflation pressures have made it hard to survive on the minimum wage, many business owners are concerned the hike would cut already thin margins. 

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2 Comments

  • Janet Wilson
    August 26, 2025

    The high inflation of the past few years along with the rapid rise in minimum wage have made retirement almost impossible for those of us who worked most of our lives under the old wage system. The money we have been saving for decades is no longer worth what we expected it to be worth. And it is even worse for those who are already retired.

  • Mike Stair
    August 25, 2025

    Rent control; Emergency wages; Affordable unit set-asides, Menthol tobacco bans; Parking monopolies; now minimum wage to the moon ... Portland seems to have an endless array of business-prevention techniques.