Cooks, Short Order Salary in Athens, GA

Cooks, Short Order pay range in Athens

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $18,910 a year or less, while the top 10% make $36,590 or more. The middle half of cooks, short order in Athens earn between $26,410 and $36,090.

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

Cooks, Short Order salary after taxes in Athens

On the average salary of $30,720, a single filer in Athens takes home about $26,079 a year, or $2,173 a month and $1,003 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).

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

Prices in the Athens area are 7% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 93.3), so the average $30,720 buys what about $32,911 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.8 times the median wage of all jobs in Athens ($41,220). A typical home costs $373,118, or 12.1 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Short Order salary in other Georgia cities

Athens ranks 1st of 5 Georgia metro areas for this job, the best-paid in the state.

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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).

Cooks, Short Order salary by city

Related jobs in Athens

• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$33,170 a year
• Cooks, Restaurant$32,520 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$31,430 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$60,760 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$41,080 a year
• Food Servers, Nonrestaurant$31,750 a year
• Bartenders$27,880 a year
• Dishwashers$27,610 a year

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