Cooks, Fast Food Salary in Lubbock, TX

Cooks, Fast Food pay range in Lubbock

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $20,520 a year or less, while the top 10% make $35,010 or more. The middle half of cooks, fast food in Lubbock earn between $24,160 and $28,940.

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

Cooks, Fast Food salary after taxes in Lubbock

On the average salary of $26,970, a single filer in Lubbock takes home about $23,820 a year, or $1,985 a month and $916 every two weeks. Taxes take 12% of gross pay.

Single filer, standard deduction: federal income tax (2026 brackets), Social Security, Medicare and no state income tax.

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

Prices in the Lubbock area are 9% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 91.3), so the average $26,970 buys what about $29,534 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.6 times the median wage of all jobs in Lubbock ($42,130). A typical home costs $213,766, or 7.9 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Fast Food salary in other Texas cities

Lubbock ranks 15th of 20 Texas metro areas for this job; Austin pays the most ($38,950).

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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 Lubbock

• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$31,050 a year
• Cooks, Restaurant$30,420 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$29,320 a year
• Cooks, All Other$27,990 a year
• Cooks, Short Order$26,270 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$58,230 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$37,060 a year
• Bartenders$29,300 a year

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