Cooks, Restaurant Salary in Niles, MI

Cooks, Restaurant pay range in Niles

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $28,990 a year or less, while the top 10% make $45,210 or more. The middle half of cooks, restaurant in Niles earn between $33,190 and $38,600.

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

Cooks, Restaurant salary after taxes in Niles

On the average salary of $36,720, a single filer in Niles takes home about $30,370 a year, or $2,531 a month and $1,168 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).

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

Prices in the Niles area are 8% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 92.4), so the average $36,720 buys what about $39,753 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.8 times the median wage of all jobs in Niles ($45,980). A typical home costs $282,443, or 7.7 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Restaurant salary in other Michigan cities

Niles ranks 8th of 15 Michigan metro areas for this job; Ann Arbor pays the most ($39,380).

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Kahului, HI pays this job the most of the metro areas we cover ($54,460).

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Related jobs in Niles

• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$36,350 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$31,480 a year
• Cooks, Fast Food$29,080 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$62,300 a year
• Bartenders$45,280 a year
• Waiters and Waitresses$43,960 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$42,220 a year
• Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers$33,240 a year

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