Cooks, Restaurant Salary in Bangor, ME

Cooks, Restaurant pay range in Bangor

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $37,430 a year or less, while the top 10% make $46,350 or more. The middle half of cooks, restaurant in Bangor earn between $38,170 and $45,200.

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

Cooks, Restaurant salary after taxes in Bangor

On the average salary of $42,210, a single filer in Bangor takes home about $34,866 a year, or $2,905 a month and $1,341 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 (2026 rules). Maine's standard deduction phase-out above $102,250 of income is not modelled.

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

Prices in the Bangor area are 3% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 96.5), so the average $42,210 buys what about $43,737 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.8 times the median wage of all jobs in Bangor ($47,960). A typical home costs $280,733, or 6.7 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Restaurant salary in other Maine cities

Bangor ranks 3rd of 3 Maine metro areas for this job; Portland pays the most ($46,670).

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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 Bangor

• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$43,360 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$36,230 a year
• Cooks, Short Order$36,210 a year
• Cooks, Fast Food$35,450 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$58,790 a year
• Bartenders$54,160 a year
• Waiters and Waitresses$52,700 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$47,800 a year

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