Cooks, Short Order Salary in Peoria, IL

Cooks, Short Order pay range in Peoria

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $31,200 a year or less, while the top 10% make $45,230 or more. The middle half of cooks, short order in Peoria earn between $31,200 and $37,530.

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

Cooks, Short Order salary after taxes in Peoria

On the average salary of $35,270, a single filer in Peoria takes home about $28,915 a year, or $2,410 a month and $1,112 every two weeks. Taxes take 18% of gross pay.

Single filer, standard deduction: federal income tax (2026 brackets), Social Security, Medicare and state income tax (2025 rules).

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

Prices in the Peoria area are 9% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 91.2), so the average $35,270 buys what about $38,660 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.6 times the median wage of all jobs in Peoria ($49,590). A typical home costs $172,742, or 4.9 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Short Order salary in other Illinois cities

Peoria ranks 3rd of 3 Illinois metro areas for this job; Chicago pays the most ($38,980).

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

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Related jobs in Peoria

• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$36,910 a year
• Cooks, Restaurant$36,410 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$34,050 a year
• Cooks, Fast Food$33,100 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$56,750 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$43,690 a year
• Food Preparation and Serving Related Workers, All Other$37,680 a year
• Bartenders$35,140 a year

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