Cooks, All Other Salary in Reading, PA

Cooks, All Other pay range in Reading

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $23,480 a year or less, while the top 10% make $48,070 or more. The middle half of other cooks in Reading earn between $31,440 and $37,510.

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

Cooks, All Other salary after taxes in Reading

On the average salary of $36,940, a single filer in Reading takes home about $30,727 a year, or $2,561 a month and $1,182 every two weeks. Taxes take 17% 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 Reading a good place for other cooks? Pay vs. cost of living

Prices in the Reading area are 3% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 97.1), so the average $36,940 buys what about $38,059 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.7 times the median wage of all jobs in Reading ($49,440). A typical home costs $312,348, or 8.5 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, All Other salary in other Pennsylvania cities

Reading ranks 4th of 5 Pennsylvania metro areas for this job; Philadelphia pays the most ($40,360).

All Cooks, All Other salaries in Pennsylvania

Highest-paying cities for other cooks

Burlington, VT pays this job the most of the metro areas we cover ($54,270).

Cooks, All Other salary by city

Related jobs in Reading

• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$37,040 a year
• Cooks, Restaurant$34,570 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$32,410 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$70,150 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$42,340 a year
• Waiters and Waitresses$36,110 a year
• Bartenders$35,110 a year
• Food Servers, Nonrestaurant$33,240 a year

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