Bakers Salary in Ames, IA

Bakers pay range in Ames

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $22,360 a year or less, while the top 10% make $48,610 or more. The middle half of bakers in Ames earn between $28,150 and $38,290.

*Hourly figures assume 2,080 paid hours a year.

Bakers salary after taxes in Ames

On the average salary of $34,870, a single filer in Ames takes home about $29,485 a year, or $2,457 a month and $1,134 every two weeks. Taxes take 15% of gross pay.

Single filer, standard deduction: federal income tax (2026 brackets), Social Security, Medicare and state income tax (2026 rules). Iowa school district surtaxes (a percentage of state tax in some districts) are not included.

Is Ames a good place for bakers? Pay vs. cost of living

Prices in the Ames area are 11% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 88.8), so the average $34,870 buys what about $39,255 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.7 times the median wage of all jobs in Ames ($50,220). A typical home costs $280,269, or 8.0 years of this average salary before tax.

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Bakers salary in other Iowa cities

Ames ranks 6th of 8 Iowa metro areas for this job; Dubuque pays the most ($39,440).

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Kahului, HI pays this job the most of the metro areas we cover ($52,420).

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• Food Batchmakers$50,870 a year
• Food Processing Workers, All Other$42,470 a year
• Butchers and Meat Cutters$36,550 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers$73,590 a year
• Production Workers, All Other$64,230 a year
• Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant and System Operators$63,000 a year
• Machinists$62,700 a year
• Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders$62,040 a year

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