Cooks, Fast Food Salary in Lawrence, KS

Cooks, Fast Food pay range in Lawrence

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $24,230 a year or less, while the top 10% make $40,130 or more. The middle half of cooks, fast food in Lawrence earn between $26,820 and $34,960.

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

Cooks, Fast Food salary after taxes in Lawrence

On the average salary of $30,960, a single filer in Lawrence takes home about $26,110 a year, or $2,176 a month and $1,004 every two weeks. Taxes take 16% of gross pay.

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

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

Prices in the Lawrence area are 10% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 90.2), so the average $30,960 buys what about $34,307 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.6 times the median wage of all jobs in Lawrence ($47,390). A typical home costs $340,687, or 11.0 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Fast Food salary in other Kansas cities

Lawrence ranks 1st of 3 Kansas metro areas for this job, the best-paid in the state.

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

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Related jobs in Lawrence

• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$36,760 a year
• Cooks, Restaurant$34,560 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$31,300 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$48,330 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$42,790 a year
• Waiters and Waitresses$42,210 a year
• Bartenders$39,160 a year
• Dishwashers$28,270 a year

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