Cooks, Restaurant Salary in Albuquerque, NM

Cooks, Restaurant pay range in Albuquerque

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $29,610 a year or less, while the top 10% make $43,250 or more. The middle half of cooks, restaurant in Albuquerque earn between $31,000 and $37,300.

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

Cooks, Restaurant salary after taxes in Albuquerque

On the average salary of $35,440, a single filer in Albuquerque takes home about $30,099 a year, or $2,508 a month and $1,158 every two weeks. Taxes take 15% of gross pay.

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

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

Prices in the Albuquerque area are 4% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 95.5), so the average $35,440 buys what about $37,092 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.7 times the median wage of all jobs in Albuquerque ($48,060). A typical home costs $352,894, or 10.0 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Restaurant salary in other New Mexico cities

Albuquerque ranks 2nd of 4 New Mexico metro areas for this job; Santa Fe pays the most ($38,390).

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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 Albuquerque

• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$38,390 a year
• Cooks, Short Order$37,350 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$33,810 a year
• Cooks, Fast Food$32,830 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$64,930 a year
• Waiters and Waitresses$43,830 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$43,820 a year
• Bartenders$42,520 a year

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