Chefs and Head Cooks Salary in Lubbock, TX

Chefs and Head Cooks pay range in Lubbock

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $36,930 a year or less, while the top 10% make $83,440 or more. The middle half of chefs and head cooks in Lubbock earn between $41,150 and $75,020.

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

Chefs and Head Cooks salary after taxes in Lubbock

On the average salary of $58,230, a single filer in Lubbock takes home about $48,968 a year, or $4,081 a month and $1,883 every two weeks. Taxes take 16% of gross pay.

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

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

Prices in the Lubbock area are 9% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 91.3), so the average $58,230 buys what about $63,767 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 1.4 times the median wage of all jobs in Lubbock ($42,130). A typical home costs $213,766, or 3.7 years of this average salary before tax.

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Chefs and Head Cooks salary in other Texas cities

Lubbock ranks 5th 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 Lubbock

• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$37,060 a year
• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$31,050 a year
• Cooks, Restaurant$30,420 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$29,320 a year
• Bartenders$29,300 a year
• Food Servers, Nonrestaurant$28,460 a year
• Food Preparation and Serving Related Workers, All Other$28,260 a year
• Cooks, All Other$27,990 a year

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