Cooks, Restaurant Salary in Denver, CO

Cooks, Restaurant pay range in Denver

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $36,340 a year or less, while the top 10% make $49,880 or more. The middle half of cooks, restaurant in Denver earn between $38,850 and $45,950.

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

Cooks, Restaurant salary after taxes in Denver

On the average salary of $43,550, a single filer in Denver takes home about $35,965 a year, or $2,997 a month and $1,383 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 (2026 rules). Colorado's FAMLI premium and the flat monthly occupational privilege taxes of Denver, Aurora and a few other cities are not included.

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

Prices in the Denver area are 6% above the U.S. average (BEA price parity 105.8), so the average $43,550 buys what about $41,170 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.7 times the median wage of all jobs in Denver ($62,320). A typical home costs $573,221, or 13.2 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Restaurant salary in other Colorado cities

Denver ranks 1st of 7 Colorado metro areas for this job, the best-paid in the state.

All Cooks, Restaurant salaries in Colorado

Highest-paying cities for cooks, restaurant

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

Cooks, Restaurant salary by city

Related jobs in Denver

• Cooks, Short Order$51,530 a year
• Cooks, All Other$47,110 a year
• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$44,810 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$40,470 a year
• Cooks, Fast Food$40,450 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$72,990 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$55,410 a year
• Bartenders$51,920 a year

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