Cooks, Restaurant Salary in Champaign, IL

Cooks, Restaurant pay range in Champaign

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $31,410 a year or less, while the top 10% make $44,990 or more. The middle half of cooks, restaurant in Champaign earn between $34,200 and $38,350.

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

Cooks, Restaurant salary after taxes in Champaign

On the average salary of $37,020, a single filer in Champaign takes home about $30,234 a year, or $2,520 a month and $1,163 every two weeks. Taxes take 18% of gross pay.

Single filer, standard deduction: federal income tax (2026 brackets), Social Security, Medicare and state income tax (2025 rules).

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

Prices in the Champaign area are 7% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 92.7), so the average $37,020 buys what about $39,934 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.7 times the median wage of all jobs in Champaign ($50,700). A typical home costs $237,290, or 6.4 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Restaurant salary in other Illinois cities

Champaign ranks 3rd of 8 Illinois metro areas for this job; Chicago pays the most ($40,450).

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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 Champaign

• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$40,400 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$34,180 a year
• Cooks, Fast Food$33,790 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$53,240 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$44,490 a year
• Bartenders$36,260 a year
• Food Preparation and Serving Related Workers, All Other$35,710 a year
• Food Servers, Nonrestaurant$35,670 a year

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