Chefs and Head Cooks Salary in Amarillo, TX

Chefs and Head Cooks pay range in Amarillo

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $22,980 a year or less, while the top 10% make $76,510 or more. The middle half of chefs and head cooks in Amarillo earn between $35,980 and $64,300.

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

Chefs and Head Cooks salary after taxes in Amarillo

On the average salary of $50,810, a single filer in Amarillo takes home about $43,006 a year, or $3,584 a month and $1,654 every two weeks. Taxes take 15% of gross pay.

Single filer, standard deduction: federal income tax (2026 brackets), Social Security, Medicare and no state income tax.

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

Prices in the Amarillo area are 8% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 91.8), so the average $50,810 buys what about $55,337 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 1.0 times the median wage of all jobs in Amarillo ($44,580). A typical home costs $219,904, or 4.3 years of this average salary before tax.

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Chefs and Head Cooks salary in other Texas cities

Amarillo ranks 17th of 23 Texas metro areas for this job; Austin pays the most ($68,120).

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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 Amarillo

• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$38,760 a year
• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$32,800 a year
• Cooks, Restaurant$30,880 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$30,390 a year
• Bartenders$30,300 a year
• Food Servers, Nonrestaurant$28,420 a year
• Cooks, Fast Food$28,130 a year
• Waiters and Waitresses$28,000 a year

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