Cooks, Restaurant Salary in Grand Island, NE

Cooks, Restaurant pay range in Grand Island

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $28,450 a year or less, while the top 10% make $43,680 or more. The middle half of cooks, restaurant in Grand Island earn between $33,360 and $41,740.

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

Cooks, Restaurant salary after taxes in Grand Island

On the average salary of $36,610, a single filer in Grand Island takes home about $30,810 a year, or $2,567 a month and $1,185 every two weeks. Taxes take 16% of gross pay.

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

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

Prices in the Grand Island area are 13% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 86.7), so the average $36,610 buys what about $42,247 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.7 times the median wage of all jobs in Grand Island ($49,410). A typical home costs $260,422, or 7.1 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Restaurant salary in other Nebraska cities

Grand Island ranks 3rd of 3 Nebraska metro areas for this job; Omaha pays the most ($38,400).

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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 Grand Island

• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$35,800 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$34,340 a year
• Cooks, Short Order$32,770 a year
• Cooks, Fast Food$31,330 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$41,350 a year
• Waiters and Waitresses$38,690 a year
• Bartenders$35,880 a year
• Food Servers, Nonrestaurant$32,890 a year

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