Chefs and Head Cooks Salary in Corvallis, OR

Chefs and Head Cooks pay range in Corvallis

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $43,680 a year or less, while the top 10% make $86,720 or more. The middle half of chefs and head cooks in Corvallis earn between $52,930 and $71,420.

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

Chefs and Head Cooks salary after taxes in Corvallis

On the average salary of $62,230, a single filer in Corvallis takes home about $47,757 a year, or $3,980 a month and $1,837 every two weeks. Taxes take 23% of gross pay.

Single filer, standard deduction: federal income tax (2026 brackets), Social Security, Medicare and state income tax (2025 rules). Portland-area Metro and Multnomah County taxes and the 0.1% statewide transit tax are not included.

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

Prices in the Corvallis area are 4% above the U.S. average (BEA price parity 104.0), so the average $62,230 buys what about $59,827 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 1.0 times the median wage of all jobs in Corvallis ($57,680). A typical home costs $562,829, or 9.0 years of this average salary before tax.

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Chefs and Head Cooks salary in other Oregon cities

Corvallis ranks 6th of 6 Oregon metro areas for this job; Portland pays the most ($69,430).

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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 Corvallis

• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$47,440 a year
• Waiters and Waitresses$49,030 a year
• Cooks, Short Order$48,580 a year
• Bartenders$46,370 a year
• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$42,130 a year
• Cooks, Restaurant$40,940 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$37,000 a year
• Cooks, Fast Food$35,990 a year

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