Oregon is the only west coast state without a state salaried minimum wage. WA's is now more than CA's. Meanwhile, OR is progressive on hourly minimum wage. Why hasn't this been taken up?

They're talking about a minimum wage for salaried employees, not a minimum hourly wage which Oregon has.

It's been a while since I was hourly, but IIRC the bar is a certain dollar figure beyond which you can't be hourly anymore.

Washington:

https://www.seyfarth.com/news-insights/washington-increases-minimum-wage-and-salary-thresholds-for-exemption-and-non-competes.html

"Effective January 1, 2025, employers with 51 or more employees must pay overtime exempt workers a salary of at least 2.25 times the minimum wage. That means an employee that meets the “duties” test for exemption must also earn at least $1,499.40 per week (or $77,968.80 per year) in order to be exempt.

Effective January 1, 2025, exempt computer professionals paid at an hourly rate must be paid at least $58.31 per hour in order to be exempt."

Oregon:

https://www.oregon.gov/boli/employers/pages/salaried-exempt-employees.aspx

"Almost all Oregon employers are subject to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), and the minimum salary to qualify for exemption under that law is $684 per week or $35,568 annually (allowing up to 10% of the salary basis threshold to be met with nondiscretionary bonuses/incentives, including commissions, paid at least annually). Visit the US DOL website on this topic.

Note: Effective November 15, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas set aside and vacated the U.S. Department of Labor’s latest update to the salary basis test.

Under that rule, the federal minimum salary level had increased July 1, 2024 to $844 per week with a further increase to $1,128 per week set to take effect January 1, 2025. Additional increases would have been tied to inflation. For details, see the U.S. Department of Labor’s April 23, 2024 announcement: Defining and Delimiting the Exemptions for Executive, Administrative, Professional, Outside Sales, and Computer Employees.

Unless successfully appealed, the court’s ruling effectively rolls the nationwide salary basis test back to levels set for 2020, that is, $684 per week or $35,568 annually."

For Oregon computer professionals, that's slightly different:

https://www.oregon.gov/boli/workers/Pages/computer-professionals.aspx

"Certain highly-skilled computer professionals may be classified as exempt as either (1) highly compensated computer professionals (paid at least $27.63 per hour) or (2) salaried exempt computer professionals.

Unless an employee fits plainly within an exemption, wage and hour requirements will apply. Click here for more information on salaried exempt employees."