Chefs and Head Cooks Salary in Odessa, TX

Chefs and Head Cooks pay range in Odessa

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $37,880 a year or less, while the top 10% make $80,850 or more. The middle half of chefs and head cooks in Odessa earn between $39,810 and $67,000.

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

Chefs and Head Cooks salary after taxes in Odessa

On the average salary of $56,640, a single filer in Odessa takes home about $47,690 a year, or $3,974 a month and $1,834 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 Odessa a good place for chefs and head cooks? Pay vs. cost of living

Prices in the Odessa area are 6% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 93.9), so the average $56,640 buys what about $60,322 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 1.0 times the median wage of all jobs in Odessa ($48,590). A typical home costs $256,700, or 4.5 years of this average salary before tax.

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Chefs and Head Cooks salary in other Texas cities

Odessa ranks 6th of 23 Texas metro areas for this job; Austin pays the most ($68,120).

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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 Odessa

• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$40,610 a year
• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$33,560 a year
• Cooks, Restaurant$33,210 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$31,830 a year
• Bartenders$30,660 a year
• Waiters and Waitresses$29,790 a year
• Dishwashers$29,350 a year
• Cooks, Fast Food$28,820 a year

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