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Oregon is the only west coast state without a state salaried minimum wage. WA's is now more than CA's. Meanwhile, OR is progressive on hourly minimum wage. Why hasn't this been taken up? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by pdxfed@lemmy.world to c/portland@lemmy.ml

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[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

"Certain highly-skilled computer professionals may be classified as exempt as either (1) highly compensated computer professionals (paid at least $27.63 per hour)

Interesting that their "highly compensated" figure is just a couple dollars more an hour than what you'd get paid to start working at an Amazon or Target warehouse. You gotta love our neoliberal state leadership.