Cooks, Fast Food Salary in Topeka, KS

Cooks, Fast Food pay range in Topeka

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $22,750 a year or less, while the top 10% make $38,100 or more. The middle half of cooks, fast food in Topeka earn between $26,680 and $30,390.

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

Cooks, Fast Food salary after taxes in Topeka

On the average salary of $28,690, a single filer in Topeka takes home about $24,404 a year, or $2,034 a month and $939 every two weeks. Taxes take 15% of gross pay.

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

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

Prices in the Topeka area are 11% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 88.8), so the average $28,690 buys what about $32,301 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.5 times the median wage of all jobs in Topeka ($49,540). A typical home costs $217,683, or 7.6 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Fast Food salary in other Kansas cities

Topeka ranks 2nd of 3 Kansas metro areas for this job; Lawrence pays the most ($30,960).

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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 Topeka

• Cooks, Short Order$41,640 a year
• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$33,940 a year
• Cooks, Restaurant$33,810 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$32,170 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$58,420 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$43,350 a year
• Waiters and Waitresses$38,520 a year
• Bartenders$36,560 a year

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