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Oregon Final Paycheck Checker (2026)

Enter your last day worked to see when your final paycheck is due in Oregon next business day if you were fired, 5 business days if you quit.

Cited to ORS 652.140 (final pay deadlines); ORS 652.150 (penalty wage)Source: Oregon Bureau of Labor & Industries (BOLI).

Oregon final paycheck checker

Final paycheck · Oregon
Oregon rule applied to your case
Final pay due
Next business day
By the end of the first business day after you are fired or laid off. If the discharge lands on a Friday or before a holiday, that clock still runs to the next business day, not the weekend. Working-day counts exclude weekends (and not holidays here).
Late-pay consequence
Penalty wages up to 30 days
If the employer willfully fails to pay your final wages on time, ORS 652.150 makes the wages continue at your regular hourly rate for eight hours per day until paid, capped at 30 days. If you send written notice of nonpayment, the penalty is limited to 100 percent of your unpaid wages, unless the employer still does not pay in full within 12 days of that notice. BOLI can also assess a separate civil penalty of $1,000 plus costs, interest, and attorney fees for a willful violation.

Enter your last day worked to apply the rule to your dates.

This is the Oregon rule applied to what you entered — a plain summary of the deadline, not a determination that any employer did or did not pay on time.

Informational only, not legal advice. Final-pay rules turn on details this summary cannot weigh (payroll schedule, disputed amounts, deductions). See the full rules and citations on the Oregon final paycheck reference, cited to ORS 652.140 (final pay deadlines); ORS 652.150 (penalty wage).

How Oregon final paycheck timing works

Oregon draws a sharp line between being fired and quitting. If your employer fires or lays you off, all your unpaid wages are due by the end of the next business day, so a Friday discharge is not allowed to sit over the weekend. If you quit, timing turns on notice: give at least 48 hours (not counting weekends and holidays) and your final check is due on your last working day; give less and the deadline stretches to five business days or your next regular payday, whichever comes first. Behind both deadlines sits a real enforcement tool. Under ORS 652.150, an employer who willfully misses the deadline owes penalty wages that keep running at your hourly rate for eight hours a day for up to 30 days. That penalty is Oregon's own rule and is not the California waiting-time penalty, though the two look alike.

This tool applies the Oregon rule to your last day worked. It is informational only and not legal advice — a "next regular payday" rule depends on your payroll schedule, and disputed amounts or deductions can change things. For the full rules, penalties, and citations, see the Oregon final paycheck reference.

Final paycheck checkers for other states

Same tool, each with its own quit and fired deadlines.