Oregon prevailing wage rates

What is the prevailing wage rate in Oregon?

It depends on the trade. Taking each trade's main rate in each county, BOLI's figures run from $49.93 an hour (landscape and irrigation laborer, Baker County) to $131.23 (commercial diver, Baker County). Each figure is the base wage plus fringe. Pick a county or a trade below for the exact rate.

Rates by trade

Each trade page maps that trade's main rate in every county.

• Asbestos & Lead Abatement Laborer$51.21
• Boilermaker$77.55
• Brick Tender$66.34
• Bricklayer$78.11
• Carpenter$74.50
• Carpet & Soft Floor Layer$65.18
• Cement Mason$71.52
• Diver & Tender$131.23
• Dredger$76.19
• Drywall Finisher$72.55
• Drywall Installer / Lather$74.50
• Electrical Utility Lineman$107.51
• Electrician$65.74–$99.54
• Elevator Constructor$115.09–$115.41
• Fence Builder$62.14
• Fire Safety Sealer$71.43
• Glazier$78.21
• Insulator (Heat & Frost / Asbestos Worker)$90.94
• Ironworker$87.03
• Laborer$62.14
• Landscape & Irrigation Laborer$49.93
• Marble Finisher$50.48
• Marble Mason$79.11
• Millwright$88.45
• Operating Engineer$79.54
• Painter$55.34
• Pile Driver$75.87
• Plaster Tender$65.99
• Plasterer$68.19
• Plumber / Pipefitter$99.97–$103.11
• Roofer$61.37–$70.86
• Sheet Metal Worker$80.27–$94.51
• Striping & Traffic Control Worker$94.37
• Teamster (Truck Driver)$56.40
• Telecommunications Technician$55.58–$83.26
• Tile Finisher$50.35
• Tile Setter$67.43

How Oregon's prevailing wage rules work

• Which projects. Public works of all types a public agency contracts for, plus projects using $750,000 or more of public funds and some private projects (ORS 279C.800(6)). Projects of $50,000 or less are exempt (ORS 279C.810).
• Rates lock at first advertisement. The rates in effect when the specifications were first advertised apply for the whole project, and the specs must name the book and every amendment (OAR 839-025-0020).
• Areas, not counties. Trades with several union agreements list Areas with reference counties; the rest have one statewide rate. Electrical trades follow union local lines that split Lane, Douglas and Yamhill counties (ORS 279C.815).
• Base plus fringe. Each rate is an hourly base plus an hourly fringe; BOLI prints no total (ORS 279C.840).
• Zones and premiums. Many trades print a Zone A or Zone 1 base and a differential to add by distance from reference cities. Shift and hazard pay are added too.
• Overtime. Time and a half on the base rate (fringe at straight time) after 8 hours a day Monday to Friday (10 on a 4×10 schedule), after 40 a week, and on weekends and six holidays (ORS 279C.540; OAR 839-025-0050).
• Residential uses federal rates. BOLI doesn't publish residential rates. Covered residential projects generally use federal residential Davis-Bacon rates (BOLI handbook).
• Davis-Bacon overlap. On projects that are also federal, pay the higher of the state and federal rate (ORS 279C.838).