Cooks, Restaurant Salary in Rochester, MN

Cooks, Restaurant pay range in Rochester

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $30,680 a year or less, while the top 10% make $46,100 or more. The middle half of cooks, restaurant in Rochester earn between $36,480 and $44,030.

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

Cooks, Restaurant salary after taxes in Rochester

On the average salary of $39,310, a single filer in Rochester takes home about $32,481 a year, or $2,707 a month and $1,249 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). Minnesota Paid Leave premiums are not included.

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

Prices in the Rochester area are 9% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 90.8), so the average $39,310 buys what about $43,283 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.6 times the median wage of all jobs in Rochester ($60,620). A typical home costs $343,121, or 8.7 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Restaurant salary in other Minnesota cities

Rochester ranks 2nd of 5 Minnesota metro areas for this job; Minneapolis pays the most ($41,850).

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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 Rochester

• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$42,070 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$35,820 a year
• Cooks, Fast Food$32,510 a year
• Cooks, Short Order$31,190 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$67,020 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$46,760 a year
• Food Servers, Nonrestaurant$36,820 a year
• Dishwashers$32,290 a year

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