Cooks, Restaurant Salary in Odessa, TX

Cooks, Restaurant pay range in Odessa

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $22,770 a year or less, while the top 10% make $38,320 or more. The middle half of cooks, restaurant in Odessa earn between $28,690 and $37,280.

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

Cooks, Restaurant salary after taxes in Odessa

On the average salary of $33,210, a single filer in Odessa takes home about $28,864 a year, or $2,405 a month and $1,110 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 Odessa a good place for cooks, restaurant? Pay vs. cost of living

Prices in the Odessa area are 6% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 93.9), so the average $33,210 buys what about $35,369 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.7 times the median wage of all jobs in Odessa ($48,590). A typical home costs $256,700, or 7.7 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Restaurant salary in other Texas cities

Odessa ranks 4th 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 Odessa

• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$33,560 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$31,830 a year
• Cooks, Fast Food$28,820 a year
• Cooks, Short Order$28,010 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$56,640 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$40,610 a year
• Bartenders$30,660 a year
• Waiters and Waitresses$29,790 a year

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