OREGON · PLUMBER · REGISTERED APPRENTICESHIPS
Plumbing apprenticeships in Oregon: where each ladder starts and what the top rung pays.
Twelve active programs sit on Oregon's registry (the state's official program list), all drawn to one dollar scale so the heights compare honestly. The bottom of each ladder is pay on day one; the top is the journey rate. Oregon publishes each journey rate in dollars and each step as a percent of it. The day-one figure is the first percent applied to the journey rate. Check the address on a program's registration before you go: it's usually an office or a hall, not a job site. The registry also lists pipefitter and steamfitter programs. They're not on this page: their hours reach no license on the licensing page.
01 THE BOARD
Area I
HOW TO READ THIS BOARD
- THE TOPthe journey rate, what a fully qualified worker is paid
- BOTTOM RUNGwhat you are paid on day one
- THE RUNGS$5 marks on the scale. Each program's own steps are counted on its card and listed on its page.
- ONE WALLthe same $0 to $80 scale on every card, so you can compare any two by eye
- # RANKprograms numbered by journey rate, highest first
- JATCjoint apprenticeship and training committee, the registry's own abbreviation for a sponsor type.
- RULED LINES$20 apart
- THE FIGURESthe journey rate is the registry's own dollars. Every other figure is a percent it publishes, applied to that rate.
#01TUALATIN
OR SW-WA NW-CA PLMBR & STMFITTR JATC
Plumber · 10 steps to journey
#02LAKE OSWEGO
AREA I PLUMBERS JATC
Plumber · 8 steps to journey
#03ASTORIA
NORTH COAST PLUMBERS JATC
Plumber · 8 steps to journey
Area II
Area III
Area IV
Area V
Area VI
#01PASCO, WA
EASTERN WA-NE OREGON PIPE TRADES JATC
Plumber · 8 steps to journey
On Oregon's registry; the Washington address is the sponsor's, as its registration carries it.
#02PENDLETON
BLUE MOUNTAIN JATC
Plumber · 8 steps to journey
#03FRUITLAND, ID
ONTARIO JATC
Plumber · 8 steps to journey
On Oregon's registry; the Idaho address is the sponsor's, as its registration carries it.
Area VII
Each card opens that program's page, and the page links the program's registered standards on oregon.gov; the standards carry the program's own contact. This site publishes no contacts.
02 THE LICENSE
The hours you work in any of these programs count toward Oregon's experience requirements. The licensing page lists the exams, the fees and the forms, with a source for each.
The Oregon plumber licensing page →03 SOURCES
- apprenticelookup.boli.oregon.gov/api/ApprenticePrograms/{maNumber} · BOLI apprenticeship register, occupations and wage steps · read 2026-08-24
- apprenticelookup.boli.oregon.gov/api/ApprenticePrograms/ActivePrograms · BOLI apprenticeship register, active programs · read 2026-08-24
skilledladder · journey rates are the registry's own · nothing on this page is advice