Cooks, Fast Food Salary in Macon, GA

Cooks, Fast Food pay range in Macon

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $18,940 a year or less, while the top 10% make $31,440 or more. The middle half of cooks, fast food in Macon earn between $21,900 and $28,380.

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

Cooks, Fast Food salary after taxes in Macon

On the average salary of $25,580, a single filer in Macon takes home about $22,147 a year, or $1,846 a month and $852 every two weeks. Taxes take 13% of gross pay.

Single filer, standard deduction: federal income tax (2026 brackets), Social Security, Medicare and state income tax (2026 rules).

Is Macon a good place for cooks, fast food? Pay vs. cost of living

Prices in the Macon area are 11% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 88.5), so the average $25,580 buys what about $28,895 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.5 times the median wage of all jobs in Macon ($45,160). A typical home costs $200,228, or 7.8 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Fast Food salary in other Georgia cities

Macon ranks 8th of 9 Georgia metro areas for this job; Atlanta pays the most ($28,500).

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Highest-paying cities for cooks, fast food

San Francisco, CA pays this job the most of the metro areas we cover ($46,590).

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Related jobs in Macon

• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$32,870 a year
• Cooks, Restaurant$31,970 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$31,440 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$60,950 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$40,090 a year
• Bartenders$31,750 a year
• Food Servers, Nonrestaurant$30,490 a year
• Dishwashers$27,700 a year

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