Cooks, Short Order Salary in Columbia, MO

Cooks, Short Order pay range in Columbia

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $28,600 a year or less, while the top 10% make $42,730 or more. The middle half of cooks, short order in Columbia earn between $29,300 and $35,420.

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

Cooks, Short Order salary after taxes in Columbia

On the average salary of $33,740, a single filer in Columbia takes home about $28,642 a year, or $2,387 a month and $1,102 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). The 1% earnings tax applies to people who live or work in Kansas City or St. Louis itself, not in the suburbs.

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

Prices in the Columbia area are 11% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 89.4), so the average $33,740 buys what about $37,724 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.7 times the median wage of all jobs in Columbia ($47,260). A typical home costs $323,951, or 9.6 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Short Order salary in other Missouri cities

Columbia ranks 2nd of 3 Missouri metro areas for this job; St. Louis pays the most ($39,320).

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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 Columbia

• Cooks, Restaurant$35,660 a year
• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$35,160 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$32,430 a year
• Cooks, Fast Food$30,430 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$59,310 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$43,960 a year
• Waiters and Waitresses$36,910 a year
• Bartenders$34,890 a year

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