Cooks, Restaurant Salary in Gainesville, GA

Cooks, Restaurant pay range in Gainesville

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $24,820 a year or less, while the top 10% make $43,850 or more. The middle half of cooks, restaurant in Gainesville earn between $28,910 and $36,760.

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

Cooks, Restaurant salary after taxes in Gainesville

On the average salary of $33,570, a single filer in Gainesville takes home about $28,227 a year, or $2,352 a month and $1,086 every two weeks. Taxes take 16% of gross pay.

Single filer, standard deduction: federal income tax (2026 brackets), Social Security, Medicare and state income tax (2026 rules).

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 96.8), so the average $33,570 buys what about $34,692 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.8 times the median wage of all jobs in Gainesville ($45,900). A typical home costs $393,150, or 11.7 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Restaurant salary in other Georgia cities

Gainesville ranks 3rd of 13 Georgia metro areas for this job; Atlanta pays the most ($35,780).

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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$38,690 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$34,260 a year
• Cooks, Fast Food$28,170 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$67,820 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$42,120 a year
• Food Servers, Nonrestaurant$34,460 a year
• Bartenders$34,020 a year
• Dishwashers$30,080 a year

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