Cooks, Restaurant Salary in Las Cruces, NM

Cooks, Restaurant pay range in Las Cruces

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $27,610 a year or less, while the top 10% make $38,750 or more. The middle half of cooks, restaurant in Las Cruces earn between $29,020 and $35,500.

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

Cooks, Restaurant salary after taxes in Las Cruces

On the average salary of $32,770, a single filer in Las Cruces takes home about $28,069 a year, or $2,339 a month and $1,080 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 Las Cruces a good place for cooks, restaurant? Pay vs. cost of living

Prices in the Las Cruces area are 10% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 90.2), so the average $32,770 buys what about $36,326 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.7 times the median wage of all jobs in Las Cruces ($42,070). A typical home costs $288,339, or 8.8 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Restaurant salary in other New Mexico cities

Las Cruces ranks 4th of 4 New Mexico metro areas for this job; Santa Fe pays the most ($38,390).

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Kahului, HI pays this job the most of the metro areas we cover ($54,460).

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Related jobs in Las Cruces

• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$36,070 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$32,590 a year
• Cooks, Fast Food$30,630 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$64,430 a year
• Waiters and Waitresses$43,760 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$42,690 a year
• Bartenders$39,870 a year
• Dishwashers$30,760 a year

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