What does it costto run a company in Oregon.

Oregon charges a registration fee to set an entity up, a minimum franchise tax that applies every year regardless of profit, and a corporate income tax on top of that once you're earning. None of these disappear because business was slow. They're the fixed cost of keeping an Oregon entity alive, and Teamed's clients avoid all three by employing through ours instead.

Oregon's Secretary of State charges a formation and registration fee of $100 to get a business entity on the books through the state's Business Registry. That's the one-off cost of existing on paper, before you've hired anyone or booked a single dollar of revenue.

It's a small number compared to what follows. The real cost of an Oregon entity isn't the day you form it, it's every year afterward, when the state expects a return filed and a minimum tax paid whether or not the business made money.

Oregon taxes corporate income at 6.6% through the state's corporation excise tax return. That's straightforward if you're profitable, you owe a share of what you earned.

The part that catches people out is the minimum franchise tax of $150. Oregon Department of Revenue charges this regardless of profit, meaning a company with no income in a given year still owes it. A dormant or barely-trading Oregon entity is never free, it's a fixed annual cost just to keep the door open.

Filing fees are only part of the picture. Every year you'll need to file the corporation excise tax return with the Oregon Department of Revenue, calculate whether you owe the 6.6% rate or the $150 minimum, and keep the entity in good standing with the Secretary of State.

None of this is dramatic on its own. But it's a recurring administrative load someone has to own, payroll tax registrations, state filings, and a corporate return, every single year, whether you have two employees or twenty.

An employer of record is sometimes the better answer, not a lesser one. For a small or still-changing headcount, or while you're testing whether Oregon is even the right market, paying an EOR to carry the compliance load usually beats owning $150-a-year minimum tax bills and annual filings for a team of two or three.

Talk to a member of the team about where you actually stand, or run the numbers yourself through the crossover calculator. It depends on salaries and how long you intend to stay, not on a fixed headcount rule.

When Oregon stops being a test and starts being a real base, Teamed's Global Entity and Employment Operations service, which we call GEMO, sets up the entity, migrates your team into it, and hands you a clean, fully compliant company you own outright. It's the same approach across the 100+ countries we operate in.

In Oregon specifically, that means we absorb the $100 registration fee, the annual minimum franchise tax, and the corporate excise tax filings while you're growing. We transfer a properly registered entity to you when it makes sense, no gaps in payroll, no scramble to re-hire your own team under a new legal name.

Figures on this page come from the Oregon Department of Revenue's Form OR-20 corporation excise tax instructions and the Oregon Secretary of State's Business Registry fee schedule.