Cooks, Restaurant Salary in Ithaca, NY

Cooks, Restaurant pay range in Ithaca

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $35,140 a year or less, while the top 10% make $48,330 or more. The middle half of cooks, restaurant in Ithaca earn between $36,640 and $45,040.

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

Cooks, Restaurant salary after taxes in Ithaca

On the average salary of $41,360, a single filer in Ithaca takes home about $33,743 a year, or $2,812 a month and $1,298 every two weeks. Taxes take 18% of gross pay.

Single filer, standard deduction: federal income tax (2026 brackets), Social Security, Medicare and state income tax (2025 rules). New York City (up to 3.876%) and Yonkers income taxes are not included.

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

Prices in the Ithaca area are 3% above the U.S. average (BEA price parity 103.3), so the average $41,360 buys what about $40,032 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.7 times the median wage of all jobs in Ithaca ($58,130). A typical home costs $353,120, or 8.5 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Restaurant salary in other New York cities

Ithaca ranks 4th of 13 New York metro areas for this job; New York pays the most ($43,200).

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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 Ithaca

• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$45,070 a year
• Cooks, Short Order$37,870 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$37,860 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$68,230 a year
• Waiters and Waitresses$51,830 a year
• Bartenders$51,470 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$50,090 a year
• Food Servers, Nonrestaurant$39,770 a year

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