Cooks, All Other Salary in Austin, TX

Cooks, All Other pay range in Austin

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $28,520 a year or less, while the top 10% make $46,500 or more. The middle half of other cooks in Austin earn between $29,100 and $41,540.

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

Cooks, All Other salary after taxes in Austin

On the average salary of $36,320, a single filer in Austin takes home about $31,363 a year, or $2,614 a month and $1,206 every two weeks. Taxes take 14% of gross pay.

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

Is Austin a good place for other cooks? Pay vs. cost of living

Prices in the Austin area are 2% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 98.1), so the average $36,320 buys what about $37,036 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.6 times the median wage of all jobs in Austin ($56,950). A typical home costs $428,524, or 11.8 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, All Other salary in other Texas cities

Austin ranks 2nd of 11 Texas metro areas for this job; Midland pays the most ($37,950).

All Cooks, All Other salaries in Texas

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 Austin

• Cooks, Fast Food$38,950 a year
• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$37,120 a year
• Cooks, Restaurant$36,430 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$34,550 a year
• Cooks, Short Order$32,440 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$68,120 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$45,310 a year
• Food Preparation and Serving Related Workers, All Other$37,060 a year

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