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- Or. Rev. Stat. 652.140. Accessed 17 September 2026.
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When is a final paycheck due in Oregon?
Oregon gives you one business day on a discharge and then rewards an employee for giving notice, so the quickest deadline in the state can be triggered by the employee rather than by you.
· Oregon, United States guide
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In Oregon a discharged employee must be paid by the end of the next business day, under Or. Rev. Stat. 652.140. An employee who resigns with 48 hours notice is owed their pay immediately on their last day.
The next-business-day rule is clean and short. The resignation side is where Oregon gets interesting, because it has three different answers depending on how much notice was given.
An Oregon employee who gives 48 hours' notice is owed their final pay immediately on their last day, which is a tighter deadline than the one that applies when you fire someone.
When must a final paycheck be paid after firing someone in Oregon?
By the end of the next business day after the discharge, under Or. Rev. Stat. 652.140.
One business day is enough time to run an off-cycle payment and not enough to wait for a pay cycle. A Friday discharge means Monday, so the practical window is a single working day in most cases.
Oregon's Bureau of Labor and Industries enforces this, and the deadline is short enough that it has to be designed into the offboarding process rather than handled case by case.
The duty to pay is separate from whether the termination itself was lawful. That is covered on the Oregon termination and at-will page.
What if the employee resigns instead?
Immediately if they gave at least 48 hours' notice. Otherwise within five business days or the next payday, whichever comes first.
This is the most finely graded resignation rule among the states in this batch, and the incentive runs the way you would not expect: the employee who behaves well creates the tightest deadline for you.
Where no notice was given, the earlier of five business days and the next payday applies, so a resignation shortly before payday is governed by the payday.
How does Oregon compare with the states around it?
Oregon's next-business-day discharge rule is tighter than every state bordering it except California.
| State | If fired | If employee quits | Statute |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon | End of the next business day | Immediately if 48 hours notice given, otherwise within 5 business days or next payday, whichever comes first | Or. Rev. Stat. 652.140 |
| Washington | Next regular payday | Next regular payday | Wash. Rev. Code 49.48.010 |
| California | Immediately | Within 72 hours, or immediately if 72 hours notice given | Cal. Labor Code 201, 202 |
| Idaho | Next payday or within 10 days (excluding weekends and holidays), whichever is sooner; within 48 hours of a written request | Next payday or within 10 days (excluding weekends and holidays), whichever is sooner | Idaho Code 45-606 |
| Nevada | Immediately | Next payday or within 7 days, whichever is earlier | Nev. Rev. Stat. 608.020, 608.030 |
The full 50-state picture is on the final paycheck laws by state table.
Oregon final pay, in short
- Deadline if fired
- End of the next business day
- Deadline if the employee quits
- Immediately if 48 hours notice given, otherwise within 5 business days or next payday, whichever comes first
- Governing statute
- Or. Rev. Stat. 652.140
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- Primary source
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How much of this do you still handle if you hire in Oregon through an EOR?
None of it. The next-business-day payment, the notice-dependent resignation rules and the records sit with the employer of record.
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- onboarding and offboarding fees
- termination charges
- contracts that lock you in
- FX markups on every pay run
- a platform built for a company ten times your size
- a ticket queue where you never learn who to contact
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Questions people ask about Oregon final pay
When is a final paycheck due in Oregon if someone is fired?
By the end of the next business day after the discharge, under Or. Rev. Stat. 652.140.
When is it due if the employee quits?
Immediately if they gave at least 48 hours' notice. Otherwise within five business days or the next payday, whichever comes first.
Does an Oregon employee who gives notice get paid faster?
Yes. Under Or. Rev. Stat. 652.140 an employee who gives at least 48 hours' notice of resignation is owed their final pay immediately on their last working day. Without that notice, the deadline is the earlier of five business days and the next regular payday, so giving notice produces the tighter obligation for the employer.
A note from Tom Price-Daniel
Oregon gives you one business day after a discharge.
And if an employee resigns with two days' notice, you owe them on their last day, which is faster still.
Neither of those is a pay-cycle timetable. Build for off-cycle payments.
Tom Price-Daniel · Co-founder, Teamed
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