Cooks, Restaurant Salary in Gainesville, FL

Cooks, Restaurant pay range in Gainesville

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $29,490 a year or less, while the top 10% make $44,630 or more. The middle half of cooks, restaurant in Gainesville earn between $34,630 and $37,310.

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

Cooks, Restaurant salary after taxes in Gainesville

On the average salary of $36,700, a single filer in Gainesville takes home about $31,668 a year, or $2,639 a month and $1,218 every two weeks. Taxes take 14% of gross pay.

Single filer, standard deduction: federal income tax (2026 brackets), Social Security, Medicare and no state income tax.

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

Prices in the Gainesville area are 3% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 96.7), so the average $36,700 buys what about $37,939 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.8 times the median wage of all jobs in Gainesville ($47,020). A typical home costs $306,605, or 8.4 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Restaurant salary in other Florida cities

Gainesville ranks 15th of 22 Florida metro areas for this job; Naples pays the most ($42,790).

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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 Gainesville

• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$37,210 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$34,240 a year
• Cooks, Short Order$32,930 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$52,400 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$44,460 a year
• Bartenders$41,160 a year
• Waiters and Waitresses$39,920 a year
• Food Preparation and Serving Related Workers, All Other$35,490 a year

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