Cooks, Restaurant Salary in Lansing, MI

Cooks, Restaurant pay range in Lansing

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $29,500 a year or less, while the top 10% make $45,180 or more. The middle half of cooks, restaurant in Lansing earn between $33,680 and $38,270.

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

Cooks, Restaurant salary after taxes in Lansing

On the average salary of $37,030, a single filer in Lansing takes home about $30,294 a year, or $2,525 a month and $1,165 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). Includes Lansing's local income tax (1%).

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

Prices in the Lansing area are 5% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 95.0), so the average $37,030 buys what about $38,983 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.7 times the median wage of all jobs in Lansing ($52,800). A typical home costs $250,377, or 6.8 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Restaurant salary in other Michigan cities

Lansing ranks 7th of 15 Michigan metro areas for this job; Ann Arbor pays the most ($39,380).

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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 Lansing

• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$36,920 a year
• Cooks, Short Order$33,480 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$31,810 a year
• Cooks, Fast Food$29,640 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$60,350 a year
• Bartenders$45,990 a year
• Waiters and Waitresses$45,170 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$42,300 a year

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