Cooks, Restaurant Salary in Harrisonburg, VA

Cooks, Restaurant pay range in Harrisonburg

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $28,680 a year or less, while the top 10% make $43,740 or more. The middle half of cooks, restaurant in Harrisonburg earn between $30,490 and $37,600.

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

Cooks, Restaurant salary after taxes in Harrisonburg

On the average salary of $35,600, a single filer in Harrisonburg takes home about $29,552 a year, or $2,463 a month and $1,137 every two weeks. Taxes take 17% of gross pay.

Single filer, standard deduction: federal income tax (2026 brackets), Social Security, Medicare and state income tax (2025 rules).

Is Harrisonburg a good place for cooks, restaurant? Pay vs. cost of living

Prices in the Harrisonburg area are 5% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 94.9), so the average $35,600 buys what about $37,516 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.8 times the median wage of all jobs in Harrisonburg ($46,110). A typical home costs $352,185, or 9.9 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Restaurant salary in other Virginia cities

Harrisonburg ranks 5th of 9 Virginia metro areas for this job; Charlottesville pays the most ($37,910).

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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 Harrisonburg

• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$38,190 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$33,630 a year
• Cooks, Fast Food$30,630 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$64,050 a year
• Bartenders$49,800 a year
• Waiters and Waitresses$46,130 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$44,700 a year
• Food Preparation and Serving Related Workers, All Other$36,230 a year

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