Cooks, Short Order Salary in Bangor, ME

Cooks, Short Order pay range in Bangor

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $31,840 a year or less, while the top 10% make $39,650 or more. The middle half of cooks, short order in Bangor earn between $31,840 and $37,460.

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

Cooks, Short Order salary after taxes in Bangor

On the average salary of $36,210, a single filer in Bangor takes home about $30,393 a year, or $2,533 a month and $1,169 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). Maine's standard deduction phase-out above $102,250 of income is not modelled.

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

Prices in the Bangor area are 3% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 96.5), so the average $36,210 buys what about $37,520 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.7 times the median wage of all jobs in Bangor ($47,960). A typical home costs $280,733, or 7.8 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Short Order salary in other Maine cities

Bangor ranks 2nd of 2 Maine metro areas for this job; Portland pays the most ($37,940).

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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 Bangor

• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$43,360 a year
• Cooks, Restaurant$42,210 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$36,230 a year
• Cooks, Fast Food$35,450 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$58,790 a year
• Bartenders$54,160 a year
• Waiters and Waitresses$52,700 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$47,800 a year

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