Cooks, Restaurant Salary in Riverside, CA

Cooks, Restaurant pay range in Riverside

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $36,320 a year or less, while the top 10% make $49,300 or more. The middle half of cooks, restaurant in Riverside earn between $37,350 and $45,950.

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

Cooks, Restaurant salary after taxes in Riverside

On the average salary of $42,750, a single filer in Riverside takes home about $35,684 a year, or $2,974 a month and $1,372 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 Riverside a good place for cooks, restaurant? Pay vs. cost of living

Prices in the Riverside area are 6% above the U.S. average (BEA price parity 106.4), so the average $42,750 buys what about $40,163 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.9 times the median wage of all jobs in Riverside ($48,400). A typical home costs $585,378, or 13.7 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Restaurant salary in other California cities

Riverside ranks 13th of 25 California metro areas for this job; San Jose pays the most ($49,390).

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Highest-paying cities for cooks, restaurant

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

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Related jobs in Riverside

• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$45,640 a year
• Cooks, Fast Food$41,430 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$40,490 a year
• Cooks, All Other$40,120 a year
• Cooks, Short Order$37,950 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$67,030 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$48,330 a year
• Waiters and Waitresses$45,660 a year

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