Chefs and Head Cooks Salary in Ogden, UT

Chefs and Head Cooks pay range in Ogden

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $27,550 a year or less, while the top 10% make $77,550 or more. The middle half of chefs and head cooks in Ogden earn between $41,350 and $74,500.

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

Chefs and Head Cooks salary after taxes in Ogden

On the average salary of $56,000, a single filer in Ogden takes home about $44,684 a year, or $3,724 a month and $1,719 every two weeks. Taxes take 20% of gross pay.

Single filer, standard deduction: federal income tax (2026 brackets), Social Security, Medicare and state income tax (2026 rules). Utah's taxpayer credit is estimated with the Tax Commission's withholding formula.

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

Prices in the Ogden area are in line with the U.S. average (BEA price parity 100.3), so the average $56,000 buys what about $55,805 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 1.1 times the median wage of all jobs in Ogden ($48,900). A typical home costs $520,531, or 9.3 years of this average salary before tax.

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Chefs and Head Cooks salary in other Utah cities

Ogden ranks 3rd of 5 Utah metro areas for this job; Salt Lake City pays the most ($59,170).

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Kahului, HI pays this job the most of the metro areas we cover ($91,380).

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• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$42,890 a year
• Bartenders$42,010 a year
• Cooks, Short Order$37,460 a year
• Waiters and Waitresses$36,820 a year
• Cooks, Restaurant$36,510 a year
• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$36,380 a year
• Food Preparation and Serving Related Workers, All Other$35,480 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$34,430 a year

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