Cooks, Restaurant Salary in Wausau, WI

Cooks, Restaurant pay range in Wausau

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $26,510 a year or less, while the top 10% make $43,760 or more. The middle half of cooks, restaurant in Wausau earn between $30,070 and $37,750.

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

Cooks, Restaurant salary after taxes in Wausau

On the average salary of $34,980, a single filer in Wausau takes home about $29,450 a year, or $2,454 a month and $1,133 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 Wausau a good place for cooks, restaurant? Pay vs. cost of living

Prices in the Wausau area are 7% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 92.7), so the average $34,980 buys what about $37,755 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.7 times the median wage of all jobs in Wausau ($48,790). A typical home costs $274,194, or 7.8 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Restaurant salary in other Wisconsin cities

Wausau ranks 11th 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).

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Related jobs in Wausau

• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$38,670 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$32,570 a year
• Cooks, Fast Food$29,780 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$64,670 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$40,960 a year
• Waiters and Waitresses$34,420 a year
• Food Servers, Nonrestaurant$33,710 a year
• Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop$27,980 a year

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