Cooks, Restaurant Salary in Jackson, MS

Cooks, Restaurant pay range in Jackson

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $22,190 a year or less, while the top 10% make $36,260 or more. The middle half of cooks, restaurant in Jackson earn between $24,470 and $33,150.

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

Cooks, Restaurant salary after taxes in Jackson

On the average salary of $29,000, a single filer in Jackson takes home about $25,054 a year, or $2,088 a month and $964 every two weeks. Taxes take 14% of gross pay.

Single filer, standard deduction: federal income tax (2026 brackets), Social Security, Medicare and state income tax (2026 rules).

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

Prices in the Jackson area are 11% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 89.0), so the average $29,000 buys what about $32,567 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.7 times the median wage of all jobs in Jackson ($42,850). A typical home costs $215,136, or 7.4 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Restaurant salary in other Mississippi cities

Jackson ranks 3rd of 3 Mississippi metro areas for this job; Gulfport pays the most ($31,040).

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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 Jackson

• Cooks, Short Order$28,260 a year
• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$28,210 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$27,550 a year
• Cooks, Fast Food$22,840 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$60,760 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$40,640 a year
• Bartenders$37,090 a year
• Food Preparation and Serving Related Workers, All Other$31,350 a year

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