Cooks, Short Order Salary in Birmingham, AL

Cooks, Short Order pay range in Birmingham

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $21,500 a year or less, while the top 10% make $32,720 or more. The middle half of cooks, short order in Birmingham earn between $22,210 and $30,840.

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

Cooks, Short Order salary after taxes in Birmingham

On the average salary of $25,950, a single filer in Birmingham takes home about $21,997 a year, or $1,833 a month and $846 every two weeks. Taxes take 15% of gross pay.

Single filer, standard deduction: federal income tax (2026 brackets), Social Security, Medicare and state income tax (2026 rules). City occupational taxes (for example in Birmingham and Gadsden) are not included.

Is Birmingham a good place for cooks, short order? Pay vs. cost of living

Prices in the Birmingham area are 8% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 91.6), so the average $25,950 buys what about $28,316 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.5 times the median wage of all jobs in Birmingham ($47,770). A typical home costs $262,556, or 10.1 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Short Order salary in other Alabama cities

Birmingham ranks 2nd of 8 Alabama metro areas for this job; Huntsville pays the most ($26,010).

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Highest-paying cities for cooks, short order

Kahului, HI pays this job the most of the metro areas we cover ($52,560).

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Related jobs in Birmingham

• Cooks, Restaurant$34,010 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$30,230 a year
• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$28,980 a year
• Cooks, Fast Food$28,550 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$68,260 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$42,730 a year
• Bartenders$35,420 a year
• Food Servers, Nonrestaurant$30,770 a year

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