Cooks, Restaurant Salary in Amarillo, TX

Cooks, Restaurant pay range in Amarillo

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $21,630 a year or less, while the top 10% make $36,790 or more. The middle half of cooks, restaurant in Amarillo earn between $27,290 and $35,200.

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

Cooks, Restaurant salary after taxes in Amarillo

On the average salary of $30,880, a single filer in Amarillo takes home about $26,992 a year, or $2,249 a month and $1,038 every two weeks. Taxes take 13% of gross pay.

Single filer, standard deduction: federal income tax (2026 brackets), Social Security, Medicare and no state income tax.

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

Prices in the Amarillo area are 8% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 91.8), so the average $30,880 buys what about $33,631 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.7 times the median wage of all jobs in Amarillo ($44,580). A typical home costs $219,904, or 7.1 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Restaurant salary in other Texas cities

Amarillo ranks 12th of 25 Texas metro areas for this job; Austin pays the most ($36,430).

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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 Amarillo

• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$32,800 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$30,390 a year
• Cooks, Fast Food$28,130 a year
• Cooks, Short Order$25,850 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$50,810 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$38,760 a year
• Bartenders$30,300 a year
• Food Servers, Nonrestaurant$28,420 a year

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