Chefs and Head Cooks Salary in Niles, MI

Chefs and Head Cooks pay range in Niles

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $45,000 a year or less, while the top 10% make $79,050 or more. The middle half of chefs and head cooks in Niles earn between $50,360 and $72,780.

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

Chefs and Head Cooks salary after taxes in Niles

On the average salary of $62,300, a single filer in Niles takes home about $49,837 a year, or $4,153 a month and $1,917 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 (2025 rules).

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

Prices in the Niles area are 8% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 92.4), so the average $62,300 buys what about $67,446 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 1.3 times the median wage of all jobs in Niles ($45,980). A typical home costs $282,443, or 4.5 years of this average salary before tax.

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Chefs and Head Cooks salary in other Michigan cities

Niles ranks 6th of 14 Michigan metro areas for this job; Ann Arbor pays the most ($64,590).

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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 Niles

• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$42,220 a year
• Bartenders$45,280 a year
• Waiters and Waitresses$43,960 a year
• Cooks, Restaurant$36,720 a year
• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$36,350 a year
• Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers$33,240 a year
• Dishwashers$32,180 a year
• Food Servers, Nonrestaurant$32,090 a year

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