Cooks, Restaurant Salary in Lafayette, IN

Cooks, Restaurant pay range in Lafayette

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $25,390 a year or less, while the top 10% make $43,610 or more. The middle half of cooks, restaurant in Lafayette earn between $28,710 and $36,470.

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

Cooks, Restaurant salary after taxes in Lafayette

On the average salary of $33,300, a single filer in Lafayette takes home about $27,554 a year, or $2,296 a month and $1,060 every two weeks. Taxes take 17% of gross pay.

Single filer, standard deduction: federal income tax (2026 brackets), Social Security, Medicare and state income tax (2025 rules). Includes Lafayette's local income tax (1.28%).

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

Prices in the Lafayette area are 7% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 93.4), so the average $33,300 buys what about $35,642 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.7 times the median wage of all jobs in Lafayette ($48,780). A typical home costs $286,179, or 8.6 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Restaurant salary in other Indiana cities

Lafayette ranks 6th of 12 Indiana metro areas for this job; Indianapolis pays the most ($35,550).

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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 Lafayette

• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$38,450 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$31,060 a year
• Cooks, Fast Food$30,010 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$46,470 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$46,030 a year
• Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers$32,310 a year
• Waiters and Waitresses$31,040 a year
• Food Servers, Nonrestaurant$30,990 a year

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