Cooks, Restaurant Salary in Tulsa, OK

Cooks, Restaurant pay range in Tulsa

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $24,520 a year or less, while the top 10% make $43,860 or more. The middle half of cooks, restaurant in Tulsa earn between $30,420 and $37,340.

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

Cooks, Restaurant salary after taxes in Tulsa

On the average salary of $34,530, a single filer in Tulsa takes home about $28,916 a year, or $2,410 a month and $1,112 every two weeks. Taxes take 16% of gross pay.

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

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

Prices in the Tulsa area are 11% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 89.2), so the average $34,530 buys what about $38,705 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.7 times the median wage of all jobs in Tulsa ($46,670). A typical home costs $253,725, or 7.3 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Restaurant salary in other Oklahoma cities

Tulsa ranks 2nd of 4 Oklahoma metro areas for this job; Oklahoma City pays the most ($36,440).

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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 Tulsa

• Cooks, Short Order$33,100 a year
• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$31,610 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$30,430 a year
• Cooks, Fast Food$29,890 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$54,180 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$39,840 a year
• Food Preparation and Serving Related Workers, All Other$32,490 a year
• Food Servers, Nonrestaurant$31,600 a year

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