Cooks, Restaurant Salary in Staunton, VA

Cooks, Restaurant pay range in Staunton

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $28,950 a year or less, while the top 10% make $43,650 or more. The middle half of cooks, restaurant in Staunton earn between $30,420 and $37,100.

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

Cooks, Restaurant salary after taxes in Staunton

On the average salary of $35,900, a single filer in Staunton takes home about $29,776 a year, or $2,481 a month and $1,145 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 Staunton a good place for cooks, restaurant? Pay vs. cost of living

Prices in the Staunton area are 9% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 91.1), so the average $35,900 buys what about $39,395 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.7 times the median wage of all jobs in Staunton ($48,040). A typical home costs $334,927, or 9.3 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Restaurant salary in other Virginia cities

Staunton ranks 4th of 9 Virginia metro areas for this job; Charlottesville pays the most ($37,910).

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Kahului, HI pays this job the most of the metro areas we cover ($54,460).

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Related jobs in Staunton

• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$35,820 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$33,630 a year
• Cooks, Short Order$30,570 a year
• Bartenders$47,750 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$44,330 a year
• Waiters and Waitresses$43,820 a year
• Food Servers, Nonrestaurant$34,170 a year
• Dishwashers$32,980 a year

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