Chefs and Head Cooks Salary in Kahului, HI

Chefs and Head Cooks pay range in Kahului

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $55,400 a year or less, while the top 10% make $129,410 or more. The middle half of chefs and head cooks in Kahului earn between $76,170 and $103,890.

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

Chefs and Head Cooks salary after taxes in Kahului

On the average salary of $91,380, a single filer in Kahului takes home about $67,975 a year, or $5,665 a month and $2,614 every two weeks. Taxes take 26% of gross pay.

Single filer, standard deduction: federal income tax (2026 brackets), Social Security, Medicare and state income tax (2026 rules). Hawaii's top brackets above $125,000 follow Act 46 (2024).

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

Prices in the Kahului area are 9% above the U.S. average (BEA price parity 109.4), so the average $91,380 buys what about $83,534 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 1.5 times the median wage of all jobs in Kahului ($57,640). A typical home costs $997,307, or 10.9 years of this average salary before tax.

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Kahului ranks 1st of 2 Hawaii metro areas for this job, the best-paid in the state.

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

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Related jobs in Kahului

• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$61,480 a year
• Bartenders$91,360 a year
• Waiters and Waitresses$87,210 a year
• Food Servers, Nonrestaurant$59,020 a year
• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$57,770 a year
• Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers$57,640 a year
• Food Preparation and Serving Related Workers, All Other$56,540 a year
• Cooks, Restaurant$54,460 a year

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