Cooks, Restaurant Salary in San Antonio, TX

Cooks, Restaurant pay range in San Antonio

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $22,690 a year or less, while the top 10% make $38,160 or more. The middle half of cooks, restaurant in San Antonio earn between $29,030 and $36,260.

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

Cooks, Restaurant salary after taxes in San Antonio

On the average salary of $32,980, a single filer in San Antonio takes home about $28,679 a year, or $2,390 a month and $1,103 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 San Antonio a good place for cooks, restaurant? Pay vs. cost of living

Prices in the San Antonio area are 5% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 94.7), so the average $32,980 buys what about $34,820 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.7 times the median wage of all jobs in San Antonio ($47,010). A typical home costs $280,297, or 8.5 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Restaurant salary in other Texas cities

San Antonio ranks 5th 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).

Cooks, Restaurant salary by city

Related jobs in San Antonio

• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$35,290 a year
• Cooks, All Other$33,210 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$32,900 a year
• Cooks, Short Order$32,320 a year
• Cooks, Fast Food$30,480 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$56,170 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$41,160 a year
• Food Preparation and Serving Related Workers, All Other$32,130 a year

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