Chefs and Head Cooks Salary in Tulsa, OK

Chefs and Head Cooks pay range in Tulsa

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $27,040 a year or less, while the top 10% make $77,070 or more. The middle half of chefs and head cooks in Tulsa earn between $36,080 and $63,680.

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

Chefs and Head Cooks salary after taxes in Tulsa

On the average salary of $54,180, a single filer in Tulsa takes home about $43,821 a year, or $3,652 a month and $1,685 every two weeks. Taxes take 19% of gross pay.

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

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

Prices in the Tulsa area are 11% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 89.2), so the average $54,180 buys what about $60,730 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 1.2 times the median wage of all jobs in Tulsa ($46,670). A typical home costs $253,725, or 4.7 years of this average salary before tax.

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Chefs and Head Cooks salary in other Oklahoma cities

Tulsa ranks 2nd of 2 Oklahoma metro areas for this job; Oklahoma City pays the most ($61,360).

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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 Tulsa

• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$39,840 a year
• Cooks, Restaurant$34,530 a year
• Cooks, Short Order$33,100 a year
• Food Preparation and Serving Related Workers, All Other$32,490 a year
• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$31,610 a year
• Food Servers, Nonrestaurant$31,600 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$30,430 a year
• Bartenders$30,020 a year

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