Cooks, Restaurant Salary in Madison, WI

Cooks, Restaurant pay range in Madison

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $30,790 a year or less, while the top 10% make $47,090 or more. The middle half of cooks, restaurant in Madison earn between $34,990 and $44,530.

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

Cooks, Restaurant salary after taxes in Madison

On the average salary of $39,150, a single filer in Madison takes home about $32,595 a year, or $2,716 a month and $1,254 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 (2026 rules).

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

Prices in the Madison area are 3% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 97.3), so the average $39,150 buys what about $40,242 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.7 times the median wage of all jobs in Madison ($58,080). A typical home costs $452,769, or 11.6 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Restaurant salary in other Wisconsin cities

Madison ranks 1st of 13 Wisconsin metro areas for this job, the best-paid in the state.

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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 Madison

• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$42,010 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$36,760 a year
• Cooks, Short Order$29,980 a year
• Cooks, Fast Food$29,490 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$68,460 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$47,390 a year
• Waiters and Waitresses$38,450 a year
• Food Servers, Nonrestaurant$37,220 a year

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