Cooks, Fast Food Salary in Spartanburg, SC

Cooks, Fast Food pay range in Spartanburg

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $21,590 a year or less, while the top 10% make $36,670 or more. The middle half of cooks, fast food in Spartanburg earn between $23,030 and $32,010.

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

Cooks, Fast Food salary after taxes in Spartanburg

On the average salary of $27,800, a single filer in Spartanburg takes home about $24,249 a year, or $2,021 a month and $933 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 Spartanburg a good place for cooks, fast food? Pay vs. cost of living

Prices in the Spartanburg area are 9% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 91.1), so the average $27,800 buys what about $30,532 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.6 times the median wage of all jobs in Spartanburg ($47,650). A typical home costs $279,792, or 10.1 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Fast Food salary in other South Carolina cities

Spartanburg ranks 4th of 8 South Carolina metro areas for this job; Charleston pays the most ($31,410).

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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).

Cooks, Fast Food salary by city

Related jobs in Spartanburg

• Cooks, Restaurant$35,050 a year
• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$32,570 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$31,460 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$69,560 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$39,880 a year
• Food Servers, Nonrestaurant$32,390 a year
• Dishwashers$29,770 a year
• Bartenders$29,420 a year

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