Need to know what an hourly job really pays per year — and what actually lands in your bank account in Oregon? This tool first converts your hourly wage to a gross annual salary, then applies every mandatory deduction an Oregon worker faces: federal income tax, Oregon’s graduated state income tax, Social Security and Medicare (FICA), and Oregon’s distinctive statewide transit tax. The result is realistic annual and bi-weekly take-home pay.
How it works
The calculation runs in two stages — conversion, then deductions:
- Hourly to salary. Gross annual =
hourlyRate × hoursPerWeek × 52. A$25/hr full-time job is$25 × 40 × 52 = $52,000. - Federal income tax. Subtract the 2025 federal standard deduction for your filing status, then apply the federal brackets (10% to 37%).
- Oregon income tax. Subtract Oregon’s standard deduction, then apply the graduated state rates: 4.75%, 6.75%, 8.75% and 9.9%.
- FICA. Social Security at 6.2% (up to the wage base) and Medicare at 1.45% on all wages.
- Transit tax. Oregon withholds 0.1% on all wages from the first dollar.
The net annual figure is divided into 26 bi-weekly periods for your take-home estimate.
Tips and example
A $25/hr full-time worker earns $52,000 gross. After the federal standard deduction and brackets, Oregon’s graduated tax (most of this income lands in the 8.75% band), 7.65% FICA and the 0.1% transit tax, take-home typically falls in the high $30ks to low $40ks per year — roughly that figure divided by 26 each pay period.
Remember Oregon has no sales tax, so a smaller paycheck buys more at the register than in many other states. This is an estimate: it does not model the small Paid Leave Oregon contribution, local taxes (such as Portland-area transit or arts taxes), health premiums or retirement contributions, all of which adjust your real paycheck.