Chefs and Head Cooks Salary in Wichita, KS

Chefs and Head Cooks pay range in Wichita

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $33,280 a year or less, while the top 10% make $82,580 or more. The middle half of chefs and head cooks in Wichita earn between $42,590 and $64,020.

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

Chefs and Head Cooks salary after taxes in Wichita

On the average salary of $54,480, a single filer in Wichita takes home about $43,714 a year, or $3,643 a month and $1,681 every two weeks. Taxes take 20% of gross pay.

Single filer, standard deduction: federal income tax (2026 brackets), Social Security, Medicare and state income tax (2026 rules).

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

Prices in the Wichita area are 11% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 88.9), so the average $54,480 buys what about $61,251 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 1.0 times the median wage of all jobs in Wichita ($47,630). A typical home costs $225,557, or 4.1 years of this average salary before tax.

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Chefs and Head Cooks salary in other Kansas cities

Wichita ranks 2nd of 4 Kansas metro areas for this job; Topeka pays the most ($58,420).

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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 Wichita

• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$41,290 a year
• Waiters and Waitresses$41,120 a year
• Bartenders$37,910 a year
• Cooks, Restaurant$34,370 a year
• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$32,340 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$31,200 a year
• Dishwashers$30,040 a year
• Cooks, Short Order$28,550 a year

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