Cooks, Restaurant Salary in Napa, CA

Cooks, Restaurant pay range in Napa

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $38,570 a year or less, while the top 10% make $58,130 or more. The middle half of cooks, restaurant in Napa earn between $44,030 and $49,630.

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

Cooks, Restaurant salary after taxes in Napa

On the average salary of $47,830, a single filer in Napa takes home about $39,549 a year, or $3,296 a month and $1,521 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). California State Disability Insurance (1.3% of wages, paid by employees) is not included.

Is Napa a good place for cooks, restaurant? Pay vs. cost of living

Prices in the Napa area are 13% above the U.S. average (BEA price parity 112.6), so the average $47,830 buys what about $42,495 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.9 times the median wage of all jobs in Napa ($55,210). A typical home costs $890,662, or 18.6 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Restaurant salary in other California cities

Napa ranks 3rd of 25 California metro areas for this job; San Jose pays the most ($49,390).

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Kahului, HI pays this job the most of the metro areas we cover ($54,460).

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Related jobs in Napa

• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$50,320 a year
• Cooks, Short Order$44,260 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$44,240 a year
• Cooks, Fast Food$43,910 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$83,750 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$57,390 a year
• Food Servers, Nonrestaurant$48,550 a year
• Bartenders$46,780 a year

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