Chefs and Head Cooks Salary in Lancaster, PA

Chefs and Head Cooks pay range in Lancaster

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $41,830 a year or less, while the top 10% make $86,330 or more. The middle half of chefs and head cooks in Lancaster earn between $49,060 and $73,490.

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

Chefs and Head Cooks salary after taxes in Lancaster

On the average salary of $61,840, a single filer in Lancaster takes home about $49,970 a year, or $4,164 a month and $1,922 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 (2025 rules). Local earned income taxes (for example Philadelphia's wage tax) are not included.

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

Prices in the Lancaster area are 2% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 98.3), so the average $61,840 buys what about $62,937 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 1.2 times the median wage of all jobs in Lancaster ($48,210). A typical home costs $388,207, or 6.3 years of this average salary before tax.

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Chefs and Head Cooks salary in other Pennsylvania cities

Lancaster ranks 7th of 16 Pennsylvania metro areas for this job; Philadelphia pays the most ($71,310).

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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).

Chefs and Head Cooks salary by city

Related jobs in Lancaster

• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$44,180 a year
• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$37,820 a year
• Cooks, All Other$37,410 a year
• Waiters and Waitresses$37,080 a year
• Bartenders$36,090 a year
• Cooks, Restaurant$35,590 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$32,240 a year
• Food Servers, Nonrestaurant$31,590 a year

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