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# What *paid family and sick leave* does Oregon require in 2026?

Two state programmes apply from your first Oregon hire: Paid Leave Oregon, funded by a 1% payroll contribution and paying up to $1,692.16 a week for as much as 12 weeks, and Oregon Sick Time accruing 1 hour per 30 hours worked. Federal FMLA holds the job; the state pays the wages.

Last reviewed 6 June 2026 · Oregon, United States guide

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Oregon stacks two programmes on every employer from your first hire: [Paid Leave Oregon](https://paidleave.oregon.gov/), funded by a **1% payroll contribution** shared between employer and employee, and [Oregon Sick Time](https://www.oregon.gov/boli/workers/pages/sick-time.aspx), which accrues from the first hour worked. There is no separate state disability fund, but the leave benefit is the richest weekly cap of any state programme in the country.

Run a national FMLA-only policy in Oregon and you are short from your first Portland paycheque. Paid Leave Oregon pays up to **$1,692.16 a week** for as much as **12 weeks** (14 with a pregnancy-related condition), and sick time reaches every employer regardless of size. [Federal FMLA](https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fmla) only decides who holds the job while the state writes the cheque.

## What paid leave must Oregon employers provide?

Three Oregon obligations stack on top of federal law from your first hire: [Paid Leave Oregon](https://paidleave.oregon.gov/) (wages), Oregon Sick Time (accrual), and the Oregon Family Leave Act (OFLA) for job protection on a narrower set of reasons.

Both pay-in programmes reach every employer with no 50-employee threshold. Oregon carries no separate long-term-care or state disability premium, so the contribution stack is simpler than [Washington's PFML programme](/country-hiring-guides/united-states/washington/paid-family-and-sick-leave), but the weekly benefit Oregon pays is the highest cap of any state.

| Programme | What it provides | Who pays in 2026 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [Paid Leave Oregon](https://paidleave.oregon.gov/) | Up to 12 weeks of paid leave (14 with pregnancy), up to $1,692.16/week | 1% contribution; employer 40% / employee 60% at 25+ staff |
| [Oregon Sick Time](https://www.oregon.gov/boli/workers/pages/sick-time.aspx) | 1 hour accrued per 30 hours worked, up to 40 hours/year | Paid at 10+ employees (6+ with a Portland location); unpaid below |
| OFLA (job protection) | Job-protected leave for pregnancy disability, a child's illness and bereavement | Unpaid; runs alongside Paid Leave Oregon |
| [Federal FMLA](https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fmla) (floor) | 12 weeks unpaid, job protected | Unpaid; applies at 50+ employees |

The assumption that catches out-of-state employers is the 50-employee rule. [Federal FMLA](https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fmla) hits at 50 employees, but Paid Leave Oregon and Oregon Sick Time apply from your first Oregon hire. A three-person Portland team carries the same contribution and sick-time accrual as a 3,000-person enterprise. See also how your [Oregon wage and overtime obligations](/country-hiring-guides/united-states/oregon/wage-overtime-and-meal-break-law) stack on the same payroll.

## How does Paid Leave Oregon work in 2026?

[Paid Leave Oregon](https://paidleave.oregon.gov/) gives your eligible employees up to **12 weeks of paid leave** in a 52-week period, rising to **14 weeks** for a pregnancy-related condition, covering family, medical and safe leave.

You owe a **1% contribution on gross wages** up to $184,500. If you have 25 or more employees, you cover 40% of that and withhold 60% from the employee.

The benefit replaces 100% of wages for lower earners and tapers above, paying a maximum of **$1,692.16 a week** in 2026, the highest weekly cap of any state paid-leave programme. Compare that with [California's paid family leave](/country-hiring-guides/united-states/california/paid-family-and-sick-leave) to see why Oregon's weekly benefit stands out. The Oregon Employment Department pays the benefit directly to the employee, so your payroll runs unchanged during the leave period.

If you have fewer than 25 employees, you skip the employer share but still withhold and remit the employee share. Eligibility turns on an earnings test in the qualifying period, not on federal tenure, so an employee can draw Paid Leave Oregon wage replacement before they qualify for [FMLA](https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fmla) job protection.

| Paid Leave Oregon dimension | 2026 rule |
| --- | --- |
| Maximum leave | Up to 12 weeks in a 52-week period |
| Pregnancy-related | Up to 14 weeks |
| Contribution | 1% of wages to $184,500 |
| Employer / employee split | 40% / 60% at 25+ employees |
| Maximum weekly benefit | $1,692.16 |

## How much sick time does Oregon require?

Every Oregon employee accrues sick time at **1 hour for every 30 hours worked**, up to **40 hours a year**, with no employer-size threshold to accrue it. The right is set by [Oregon BOLI Sick Time (ORS 653.601-661)](https://www.oregon.gov/boli/workers/pages/sick-time.aspx).

Whether that time is paid turns on your headcount: you must pay it once you reach **10 or more employees**, dropping to **6 or more** if you have a location in the City of Portland. Below those thresholds the same time is protected but unpaid.

Covered uses are broad: your employee's own illness, care for a family member, safe time related to domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking, and time to give blood from 1 January 2026. Accrual starts on your employee's first day of work. You may also front-load at least 40 hours at the start of the year instead of running a rolling accrual.

A national sick-leave policy that accrues less than 1 hour per 30 worked is short on every Oregon payroll. The paid-versus-unpaid line is the trap for multi-state employers: a company with one small Portland office can cross the 6-employee Portland threshold and owe paid time it assumed was unpaid. If you also hire in Washington, note that [Washington runs its own paid sick leave programme](/country-hiring-guides/united-states/washington/paid-family-and-sick-leave) on a separate accrual clock. For your full Oregon cost picture, including sick-leave liability, run the [Oregon employer cost calculator](https://www.teamed.global/tools/employer-cost).

## What does the Oregon Family Leave Act (OFLA) still cover?

OFLA is Oregon's unpaid, job-protected leave law. Senate Bill 1515 reconciled it with Paid Leave Oregon from 1 July 2024: OFLA now covers a narrower set of reasons rather than duplicating paid leave entitlements.

What stays under OFLA: leave for a child's illness or injury that is not a serious health condition, pregnancy disability, and bereavement. Your employee cannot draw Paid Leave Oregon wage replacement and OFLA job protection for the same reason at the same time.

Out-of-state employers most often get this wrong because OFLA used to overlap heavily with Paid Leave Oregon. After SB 1515, the two serve different purposes: [Paid Leave Oregon](https://paidleave.oregon.gov/) pays the wages for family, medical and safe leave, while OFLA holds the job for sick-child leave, pregnancy disability and bereavement. Bereavement under OFLA is capped at two weeks per family member, up to four weeks in a leave year.

An Oregon employee can carry several entitlements at once: Paid Leave Oregon wage replacement, OFLA job protection, [federal FMLA](https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fmla), and accrued Oregon Sick Time. Coordinating them so they run concurrently, rather than stacking into more leave than the statutes require, is the real compliance task. Check your [Oregon termination and at-will obligations](/country-hiring-guides/united-states/oregon/termination-law-and-at-will-exceptions) as well, because reinstatement rights after OFLA and Paid Leave Oregon leave interact with Oregon's broader job-protection rules.

## How does federal FMLA interact with Oregon leave?

[Federal FMLA](https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fmla) gives your eligible employees up to **12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave** once you reach **50 or more employees** within a 75-mile radius. In Oregon it runs concurrently with Paid Leave Oregon, not after it.

Paid Leave Oregon pays the wages; FMLA holds the job. Your eligible employee files a Paid Leave Oregon claim and takes FMLA at the same time, not end to end.

US DOL Wage and Hour Division · FMLA

You hit the FMLA threshold at 50 employees across your entire US workforce. Eligibility needs 12 months of tenure and 1,250 hours worked in the prior year. Paid Leave Oregon runs on its own earnings test, so your employee can draw Oregon wage replacement before qualifying for FMLA job protection.

Source: [US Department of Labor, Family and Medical Leave Act](https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fmla)

Where both apply, run them concurrently: the Paid Leave Oregon claim funds the wages while FMLA and OFLA preserve the role. FMLA also adds up to 26 weeks of military caregiver leave. The [Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA)](https://www.eeoc.gov/wysk/what-you-should-know-about-pregnant-workers-fairness-act), enforced by the EEOC, requires reasonable accommodation for pregnancy-related conditions at any employer with 15 or more employees, separate from any leave entitlement. See also how your [Oregon payroll tax and unemployment insurance obligations](/country-hiring-guides/united-states/oregon/state-income-tax-and-unemployment-insurance) sit alongside these leave contributions.

## How Teamed runs Oregon leave end to end

Teamed becomes your legal [employer of record](/employer-of-record) in Oregon for [**from $599 per employee per month flat**](/pricing), with **zero FX mark-up**. We run the [Paid Leave Oregon](https://paidleave.oregon.gov/) contribution and the 40% / 60% split, Oregon Sick Time accrual, OFLA tracking and FMLA coordination.

Everything runs on **one platform** with **real HR and legal experts** who know Oregon employment law. **An actual person, not a chatbot or a pooled queue**, alongside a US compliance team.

What that looks like, day to day: real HR and legal experts file the employer verification with the [Oregon Employment Department](https://paidleave.oregon.gov/) and track the 12-week clock against the $1,692.16 weekly cap; the sick-time ledger accrues 1 hour per 30 worked and applies the paid-versus-unpaid threshold by work location, including the 6-employee Portland rule; and OFLA job protection is coordinated so leave does not stack beyond what the statutes require.

There is **no setup fee and no exit fee**, and statutory employer cost **passes through at cost, itemised** on every invoice. Contractor onboarding, EOR payroll and entity graduation all live on **one platform**: an Oregon contractor who converts to W-2 keeps their record, and that same employee can **graduate** to your own US entity without switching systems. Use the [Crossover Calculator](https://www.teamed.global/tools/crossover-calculator) to see the month the model flips. [EOR](/employer-of-record) is the right model for a first Oregon hire, **until it isn't**. Talk to our team at [teamed.global/contact](https://www.teamed.global/contact) about your first Oregon hire.

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Oregon is the opposite of a no-programme state. Paid Leave Oregon and Sick Time both apply from your first Portland hire, with no 50-employee threshold to hide behind, and the weekly benefit cap is the highest of any state programme in the country. The compliance work is not deciding whether to offer leave; it is administering the contribution split correctly and coordinating Paid Leave Oregon, OFLA and FMLA so you do not hand over more weeks than the statutes require. Get the coordination wrong and you give away leave the law never demanded.

A note from Tom Price-Daniel

Oregon does not leave paid leave to the offer letter. The state runs it.  
A 1% payroll contribution funds up to 12 weeks at up to $1,692.16 a week. Sick time accrues from the first hour.  
Administer the three overlapping entitlements cleanly. An FMLA-only handbook is short in Oregon from the first paycheque.

Tom Price-Daniel · Co-founder, Teamed

## Related United States guides

- [Oregon state income tax & unemployment insurance](/country-hiring-guides/united-states/oregon/state-income-tax-and-unemployment-insurance)sibling
- [Oregon wage, overtime & meal break law](/country-hiring-guides/united-states/oregon/wage-overtime-and-meal-break-law)sibling
- [Oregon termination law & at-will exceptions](/country-hiring-guides/united-states/oregon/termination-law-and-at-will-exceptions)sibling
- [Hiring in the United States, overview](/country-hiring-guides/united-states)country parent
- [Washington paid family & sick leave](/country-hiring-guides/united-states/washington/paid-family-and-sick-leave)neighbour (state-PFML contrast)
- [California paid family & sick leave](/country-hiring-guides/united-states/california/paid-family-and-sick-leave)neighbour (state-PFML contrast)
- [Employer of Record overview](/employer-of-record)core
- [Pricing, Zero FX Fixed](/pricing)core
- [Oregon employer cost calculator](https://www.teamed.global/tools/employer-cost)tool
- [EOR vs Entity Crossover Calculator](https://www.teamed.global/tools/crossover-calculator)tool
- [Talk to an expert](https://www.teamed.global/contact)CTA

A note on this page.

This is a guide, not legal advice. Paid Leave Oregon's contribution rate, wage cap and weekly maximum, the Oregon Sick Time rules, and OFLA all update over time, and the maximum weekly benefit is recalculated each year against the state average weekly wage. Confirm specific figures with the Oregon Employment Department, paidleave.oregon.gov, the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI) or your Teamed US specialist before relying on any number here.