Cooks, Short Order Salary in Rochester, MN

Cooks, Short Order pay range in Rochester

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $23,640 a year or less, while the top 10% make $39,090 or more. The middle half of cooks, short order in Rochester earn between $23,640 and $36,080.

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

Cooks, Short Order salary after taxes in Rochester

On the average salary of $31,190, a single filer in Rochester takes home about $26,391 a year, or $2,199 a month and $1,015 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). Minnesota Paid Leave premiums are not included.

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

Prices in the Rochester area are 9% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 90.8), so the average $31,190 buys what about $34,342 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.5 times the median wage of all jobs in Rochester ($60,620). A typical home costs $343,121, or 11.0 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Short Order salary in other Minnesota cities

Rochester ranks 3rd of 3 Minnesota metro areas for this job; Minneapolis pays the most ($34,510).

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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 Rochester

• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$42,070 a year
• Cooks, Restaurant$39,310 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$35,820 a year
• Cooks, Fast Food$32,510 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$67,020 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$46,760 a year
• Food Servers, Nonrestaurant$36,820 a year
• Dishwashers$32,290 a year

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