Cooks, Restaurant Salary in Kahului, HI

Cooks, Restaurant pay range in Kahului

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $38,470 a year or less, while the top 10% make $74,350 or more. The middle half of cooks, restaurant in Kahului earn between $44,880 and $63,230.

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

Cooks, Restaurant salary after taxes in Kahului

On the average salary of $54,460, a single filer in Kahului takes home about $43,593 a year, or $3,633 a month and $1,677 every two weeks. Taxes take 20% of gross pay.

Single filer, standard deduction: federal income tax (2026 brackets), Social Security, Medicare and state income tax (2026 rules). Hawaii's top brackets above $125,000 follow Act 46 (2024).

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

Prices in the Kahului area are 9% above the U.S. average (BEA price parity 109.4), so the average $54,460 buys what about $49,784 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.9 times the median wage of all jobs in Kahului ($57,640). A typical home costs $997,307, or 18.3 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Restaurant salary in other Hawaii cities

Kahului ranks 1st of 2 Hawaii metro areas for this job, the best-paid in the state.

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Kahului, HI pays this job the most of the metro areas we cover ($54,460).

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Related jobs in Kahului

• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$57,770 a year
• Cooks, Short Order$52,560 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$48,150 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$91,380 a year
• Bartenders$91,360 a year
• Waiters and Waitresses$87,210 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$61,480 a year
• Food Servers, Nonrestaurant$59,020 a year

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