Cooks, Restaurant Salary in Fort Collins, CO

Cooks, Restaurant pay range in Fort Collins

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $34,450 a year or less, while the top 10% make $47,400 or more. The middle half of cooks, restaurant in Fort Collins earn between $36,830 and $44,810.

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

Cooks, Restaurant salary after taxes in Fort Collins

On the average salary of $40,840, a single filer in Fort Collins takes home about $33,906 a year, or $2,826 a month and $1,304 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 Fort Collins a good place for cooks, restaurant? Pay vs. cost of living

Prices in the Fort Collins area are in line with the U.S. average (BEA price parity 101.1), so the average $40,840 buys what about $40,384 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.7 times the median wage of all jobs in Fort Collins ($55,310). A typical home costs $556,500, or 13.6 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Restaurant salary in other Colorado cities

Fort Collins ranks 3rd of 7 Colorado metro areas for this job; Denver pays the most ($43,550).

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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 Fort Collins

• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$42,470 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$37,800 a year
• Cooks, Fast Food$37,020 a year
• Cooks, Short Order$34,900 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$63,590 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$51,380 a year
• Bartenders$51,060 a year
• Waiters and Waitresses$50,800 a year

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