Cooks, Restaurant Salary in Kankakee, IL

Cooks, Restaurant pay range in Kankakee

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $31,200 a year or less, while the top 10% make $44,250 or more. The middle half of cooks, restaurant in Kankakee earn between $31,200 and $37,730.

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

Cooks, Restaurant salary after taxes in Kankakee

On the average salary of $36,430, a single filer in Kankakee takes home about $29,789 a year, or $2,482 a month and $1,146 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 Kankakee a good place for cooks, restaurant? Pay vs. cost of living

Prices in the Kankakee area are 4% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 96.4), so the average $36,430 buys what about $37,793 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.8 times the median wage of all jobs in Kankakee ($45,830). A typical home costs $223,721, or 6.1 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Restaurant salary in other Illinois cities

Kankakee ranks 6th 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 Kankakee

• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$37,300 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$33,530 a year
• Cooks, Fast Food$32,300 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$51,650 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$40,390 a year
• Bartenders$35,970 a year
• Waiters and Waitresses$34,960 a year
• Food Servers, Nonrestaurant$33,580 a year

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