Cooks, Restaurant Salary in Bismarck, ND

Cooks, Restaurant pay range in Bismarck

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $29,130 a year or less, while the top 10% make $45,650 or more. The middle half of cooks, restaurant in Bismarck earn between $31,090 and $38,380.

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

Cooks, Restaurant salary after taxes in Bismarck

On the average salary of $37,010, a single filer in Bismarck takes home about $31,918 a year, or $2,660 a month and $1,228 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 Bismarck a good place for cooks, restaurant? Pay vs. cost of living

Prices in the Bismarck area are 9% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 91.0), so the average $37,010 buys what about $40,660 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.7 times the median wage of all jobs in Bismarck ($52,560). A typical home costs $356,992, or 9.6 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Restaurant salary in other North Dakota cities

Bismarck ranks 2nd of 4 North Dakota metro areas for this job; Fargo pays the most ($37,490).

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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 Bismarck

• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$40,230 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$37,450 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$45,510 a year
• Food Servers, Nonrestaurant$37,880 a year
• Waiters and Waitresses$37,330 a year
• Bartenders$34,350 a year
• Dishwashers$31,890 a year
• Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers$31,130 a year

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