Cooks, Restaurant Salary in Ocala, FL

Cooks, Restaurant pay range in Ocala

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $28,490 a year or less, while the top 10% make $43,890 or more. The middle half of cooks, restaurant in Ocala earn between $31,300 and $36,700.

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

Cooks, Restaurant salary after taxes in Ocala

On the average salary of $35,580, a single filer in Ocala takes home about $30,769 a year, or $2,564 a month and $1,183 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 Ocala a good place for cooks, restaurant? Pay vs. cost of living

Prices in the Ocala area are 5% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 95.2), so the average $35,580 buys what about $37,361 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.8 times the median wage of all jobs in Ocala ($43,990). A typical home costs $273,318, or 7.7 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Restaurant salary in other Florida cities

Ocala ranks 20th 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 Ocala

• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$34,070 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$33,790 a year
• Cooks, Fast Food$29,920 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$58,670 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$43,870 a year
• Waiters and Waitresses$40,170 a year
• Bartenders$38,230 a year
• Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers$32,930 a year

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