Cooks, Restaurant Salary in Las Vegas, NV

Cooks, Restaurant pay range in Las Vegas

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $30,390 a year or less, while the top 10% make $58,520 or more. The middle half of cooks, restaurant in Las Vegas earn between $36,530 and $50,550.

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

Cooks, Restaurant salary after taxes in Las Vegas

On the average salary of $42,640, a single filer in Las Vegas takes home about $36,441 a year, or $3,037 a month and $1,402 every two weeks. Taxes take 15% of gross pay.

Single filer, standard deduction: federal income tax (2026 brackets), Social Security, Medicare and no state income tax.

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

Prices in the Las Vegas area are in line with the U.S. average (BEA price parity 100.2), so the average $42,640 buys what about $42,549 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.8 times the median wage of all jobs in Las Vegas ($46,670). A typical home costs $430,650, or 10.1 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Restaurant salary in other Nevada cities

Las Vegas ranks 1st of 3 Nevada metro areas for this job, the best-paid in the state.

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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).

Cooks, Restaurant salary by city

Related jobs in Las Vegas

• Cooks, All Other$50,820 a year
• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$42,220 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$36,690 a year
• Cooks, Short Order$34,570 a year
• Cooks, Fast Food$34,550 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$67,590 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$47,590 a year
• Food Servers, Nonrestaurant$38,710 a year

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