Cooks, Restaurant Salary in Milwaukee, WI

Cooks, Restaurant pay range in Milwaukee

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $29,720 a year or less, while the top 10% make $46,710 or more. The middle half of cooks, restaurant in Milwaukee earn between $31,840 and $42,580.

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

Cooks, Restaurant salary after taxes in Milwaukee

On the average salary of $37,810, a single filer in Milwaukee takes home about $31,584 a year, or $2,632 a month and $1,215 every two weeks. Taxes take 16% of gross pay.

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

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

Prices in the Milwaukee area are 3% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 96.9), so the average $37,810 buys what about $39,005 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.7 times the median wage of all jobs in Milwaukee ($51,160). A typical home costs $390,238, or 10.3 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Restaurant salary in other Wisconsin cities

Milwaukee ranks 2nd of 13 Wisconsin metro areas for this job; Madison pays the most ($39,150).

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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 Milwaukee

• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$40,430 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$35,080 a year
• Cooks, Short Order$30,170 a year
• Cooks, Fast Food$28,930 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$66,360 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$43,780 a year
• Food Servers, Nonrestaurant$35,800 a year
• Waiters and Waitresses$35,250 a year

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