Cooks, Restaurant Salary in Lancaster, PA

Cooks, Restaurant pay range in Lancaster

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $23,290 a year or less, while the top 10% make $44,890 or more. The middle half of cooks, restaurant in Lancaster earn between $29,630 and $38,580.

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

Cooks, Restaurant salary after taxes in Lancaster

On the average salary of $35,590, a single filer in Lancaster takes home about $29,684 a year, or $2,474 a month and $1,142 every two weeks. Taxes take 17% of gross pay.

Single filer, standard deduction: federal income tax (2026 brackets), Social Security, Medicare and state income tax (2025 rules). Local earned income taxes (for example Philadelphia's wage tax) are not included.

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

Prices in the Lancaster area are 2% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 98.3), so the average $35,590 buys what about $36,221 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.8 times the median wage of all jobs in Lancaster ($48,210). A typical home costs $388,207, or 10.9 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Restaurant salary in other Pennsylvania cities

Lancaster ranks 6th of 16 Pennsylvania metro areas for this job; Philadelphia pays the most ($38,970).

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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 Lancaster

• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$37,820 a year
• Cooks, All Other$37,410 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$32,240 a year
• Cooks, Fast Food$30,260 a year
• Cooks, Short Order$29,640 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$61,840 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$44,180 a year
• Waiters and Waitresses$37,080 a year

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