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Archive Home > 2007 > January > 01 > State minimum wage goes up

State minimum wage goes up

Starting today, many Oregonians will receive a 30-cent-per-hour raise

By Anna Sowa / The Bulletin
January 1, 2007

Paul Rodby remembers receiving his first raise at McDonald's in Oakland, Calif., where he started mixing shakes for $1.35 per hour in the late 1960s.

"I was so excited for my pay to go up 10 cents," Rodby remembers. And that increase didn't happen until he was a two-year....

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