Cooks, Restaurant Salary in College Station, TX

Cooks, Restaurant pay range in College Station

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $22,730 a year or less, while the top 10% make $36,680 or more. The middle half of cooks, restaurant in College Station earn between $28,250 and $35,650.

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

Cooks, Restaurant salary after taxes in College Station

On the average salary of $31,660, a single filer in College Station takes home about $27,619 a year, or $2,302 a month and $1,062 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 College Station a good place for cooks, restaurant? Pay vs. cost of living

Prices in the College Station area are 9% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 91.0), so the average $31,660 buys what about $34,810 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.7 times the median wage of all jobs in College Station ($44,470). A typical home costs $310,961, or 9.8 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Restaurant salary in other Texas cities

College Station ranks 8th 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 College Station

• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$34,010 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$33,200 a year
• Cooks, All Other$28,700 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$56,540 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$39,520 a year
• Food Preparation and Serving Related Workers, All Other$30,370 a year
• Bartenders$28,960 a year
• Waiters and Waitresses$28,600 a year

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