Cooks, Restaurant Salary in Muncie, IN

Cooks, Restaurant pay range in Muncie

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $26,230 a year or less, while the top 10% make $37,170 or more. The middle half of cooks, restaurant in Muncie earn between $27,840 and $35,730.

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

Cooks, Restaurant salary after taxes in Muncie

On the average salary of $31,620, a single filer in Muncie takes home about $26,209 a year, or $2,184 a month and $1,008 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 Muncie's local income tax (1.5%).

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

Prices in the Muncie area are 12% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 88.1), so the average $31,620 buys what about $35,871 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.7 times the median wage of all jobs in Muncie ($44,110). A typical home costs $171,820, or 5.4 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Restaurant salary in other Indiana cities

Muncie ranks 11th 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 Muncie

• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$34,150 a year
• Cooks, Short Order$29,780 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$29,350 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$45,340 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$42,840 a year
• Food Servers, Nonrestaurant$29,520 a year
• Waiters and Waitresses$28,030 a year
• Fast Food and Counter Workers$27,620 a year

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