Chefs and Head Cooks Salary in Ithaca, NY

Chefs and Head Cooks pay range in Ithaca

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $49,290 a year or less, while the top 10% make $90,940 or more. The middle half of chefs and head cooks in Ithaca earn between $53,000 and $80,580.

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

Chefs and Head Cooks salary after taxes in Ithaca

On the average salary of $68,230, a single filer in Ithaca takes home about $53,682 a year, or $4,474 a month and $2,065 every two weeks. Taxes take 21% of gross pay.

Single filer, standard deduction: federal income tax (2026 brackets), Social Security, Medicare and state income tax (2025 rules). New York City (up to 3.876%) and Yonkers income taxes are not included.

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

Prices in the Ithaca area are 3% above the U.S. average (BEA price parity 103.3), so the average $68,230 buys what about $66,039 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 1.1 times the median wage of all jobs in Ithaca ($58,130). A typical home costs $353,120, or 5.2 years of this average salary before tax.

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Chefs and Head Cooks salary in other New York cities

Ithaca ranks 9th of 13 New York metro areas for this job; Albany pays the most ($79,500).

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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 Ithaca

• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$50,090 a year
• Waiters and Waitresses$51,830 a year
• Bartenders$51,470 a year
• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$45,070 a year
• Cooks, Restaurant$41,360 a year
• Food Servers, Nonrestaurant$39,770 a year
• Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop$38,430 a year
• Cooks, Short Order$37,870 a year

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