Cooks, Restaurant Salary in Midland, TX

Cooks, Restaurant pay range in Midland

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $23,190 a year or less, while the top 10% make $43,560 or more. The middle half of cooks, restaurant in Midland earn between $29,330 and $38,470.

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

Cooks, Restaurant salary after taxes in Midland

On the average salary of $34,460, a single filer in Midland takes home about $29,869 a year, or $2,489 a month and $1,149 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 Midland a good place for cooks, restaurant? Pay vs. cost of living

Prices in the Midland area are 4% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 95.8), so the average $34,460 buys what about $35,977 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.7 times the median wage of all jobs in Midland ($54,480). A typical home costs $330,428, or 9.6 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Restaurant salary in other Texas cities

Midland ranks 3rd 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 Midland

• Cooks, All Other$37,950 a year
• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$37,500 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$33,700 a year
• Cooks, Fast Food$31,950 a year
• Cooks, Short Order$30,530 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$60,410 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$41,660 a year
• Food Servers, Nonrestaurant$32,900 a year

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