Chefs and Head Cooks Salary in Gainesville, FL

Chefs and Head Cooks pay range in Gainesville

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $31,100 a year or less, while the top 10% make $79,030 or more. The middle half of chefs and head cooks in Gainesville earn between $39,090 and $62,000.

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

Chefs and Head Cooks salary after taxes in Gainesville

On the average salary of $52,400, a single filer in Gainesville takes home about $44,283 a year, or $3,690 a month and $1,703 every two weeks. Taxes take 15% of gross pay.

Single filer, standard deduction: federal income tax (2026 brackets), Social Security, Medicare and no state income tax.

Is Gainesville a good place for chefs and head cooks? Pay vs. cost of living

Prices in the Gainesville area are 3% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 96.7), so the average $52,400 buys what about $54,170 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 1.0 times the median wage of all jobs in Gainesville ($47,020). A typical home costs $306,605, or 5.9 years of this average salary before tax.

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Chefs and Head Cooks salary in other Florida cities

Gainesville ranks 21st of 22 Florida metro areas for this job; Naples pays the most ($74,320).

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Highest-paying cities for chefs and head cooks

Kahului, HI pays this job the most of the metro areas we cover ($91,380).

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Related jobs in Gainesville

• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$44,460 a year
• Bartenders$41,160 a year
• Waiters and Waitresses$39,920 a year
• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$37,210 a year
• Cooks, Restaurant$36,700 a year
• Food Preparation and Serving Related Workers, All Other$35,490 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$34,240 a year
• Food Servers, Nonrestaurant$33,940 a year

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