Cooks, Fast Food Salary in Lansing, MI

Cooks, Fast Food pay range in Lansing

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $25,960 a year or less, while the top 10% make $34,100 or more. The middle half of cooks, fast food in Lansing earn between $26,990 and $31,910.

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

Cooks, Fast Food salary after taxes in Lansing

On the average salary of $29,640, a single filer in Lansing takes home about $24,744 a year, or $2,062 a month and $952 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). Includes Lansing's local income tax (1%).

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

Prices in the Lansing area are 5% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 95.0), so the average $29,640 buys what about $31,203 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.5 times the median wage of all jobs in Lansing ($52,800). A typical home costs $250,377, or 8.4 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Fast Food salary in other Michigan cities

Lansing ranks 6th of 12 Michigan metro areas for this job; Ann Arbor pays the most ($31,790).

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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 Lansing

• Cooks, Restaurant$37,030 a year
• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$36,920 a year
• Cooks, Short Order$33,480 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$31,810 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$60,350 a year
• Bartenders$45,990 a year
• Waiters and Waitresses$45,170 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$42,300 a year

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