Cooks, Fast Food Salary in Waco, TX

Cooks, Fast Food pay range in Waco

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $20,390 a year or less, while the top 10% make $39,300 or more. The middle half of cooks, fast food in Waco earn between $26,440 and $39,300.

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

Cooks, Fast Food salary after taxes in Waco

On the average salary of $30,150, a single filer in Waco takes home about $26,406 a year, or $2,200 a month and $1,016 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 Waco a good place for cooks, fast food? Pay vs. cost of living

Prices in the Waco area are 7% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 92.5), so the average $30,150 buys what about $32,577 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.6 times the median wage of all jobs in Waco ($46,020). A typical home costs $256,772, or 8.5 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Fast Food salary in other Texas cities

Waco ranks 6th 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 Waco

• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$34,210 a year
• Cooks, All Other$32,150 a year
• Cooks, Restaurant$31,420 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$30,440 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$51,750 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$39,060 a year
• Bartenders$30,360 a year
• Waiters and Waitresses$29,240 a year

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