Cooks, Restaurant Salary in Savannah, GA

Cooks, Restaurant pay range in Savannah

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $26,850 a year or less, while the top 10% make $46,200 or more. The middle half of cooks, restaurant in Savannah earn between $30,020 and $38,040.

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

Cooks, Restaurant salary after taxes in Savannah

On the average salary of $35,500, a single filer in Savannah takes home about $29,681 a year, or $2,473 a month and $1,142 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 Savannah a good place for cooks, restaurant? Pay vs. cost of living

Prices in the Savannah area are 5% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 95.2), so the average $35,500 buys what about $37,288 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.8 times the median wage of all jobs in Savannah ($47,240). A typical home costs $348,054, or 9.8 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Restaurant salary in other Georgia cities

Savannah ranks 2nd 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).

Cooks, Restaurant salary by city

Related jobs in Savannah

• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$34,910 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$33,290 a year
• Cooks, Short Order$30,090 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$68,320 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$45,380 a year
• Bartenders$32,450 a year
• Food Servers, Nonrestaurant$30,390 a year
• Dishwashers$29,690 a year

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