Cooks, Restaurant Salary in Longview, TX

Cooks, Restaurant pay range in Longview

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $22,660 a year or less, while the top 10% make $36,140 or more. The middle half of cooks, restaurant in Longview earn between $26,280 and $34,650.

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

Cooks, Restaurant salary after taxes in Longview

On the average salary of $30,520, a single filer in Longview takes home about $26,703 a year, or $2,225 a month and $1,027 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 Longview a good place for cooks, restaurant? Pay vs. cost of living

Prices in the Longview area are 11% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 89.5), so the average $30,520 buys what about $34,106 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.7 times the median wage of all jobs in Longview ($45,150). A typical home costs $220,865, or 7.2 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Restaurant salary in other Texas cities

Longview ranks 16th 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 Longview

• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$30,640 a year
• Cooks, Fast Food$28,270 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$27,430 a year
• Cooks, Short Order$24,820 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$52,050 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$36,600 a year
• Bartenders$29,570 a year
• Waiters and Waitresses$27,720 a year

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