Cooks, Short Order Salary in Lincoln, NE

Cooks, Short Order pay range in Lincoln

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $28,080 a year or less, while the top 10% make $37,930 or more. The middle half of cooks, short order in Lincoln earn between $28,380 and $34,560.

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

Cooks, Short Order salary after taxes in Lincoln

On the average salary of $32,410, a single filer in Lincoln takes home about $27,614 a year, or $2,301 a month and $1,062 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 Lincoln a good place for cooks, short order? Pay vs. cost of living

Prices in the Lincoln area are 8% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 91.6), so the average $32,410 buys what about $35,389 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.6 times the median wage of all jobs in Lincoln ($49,800). A typical home costs $304,242, or 9.4 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Short Order salary in other Nebraska cities

Lincoln ranks 3rd of 3 Nebraska metro areas for this job; Omaha pays the most ($34,110).

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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 Lincoln

• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$38,830 a year
• Cooks, Restaurant$37,830 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$35,290 a year
• Cooks, Fast Food$31,130 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$67,330 a year
• Waiters and Waitresses$41,660 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$41,050 a year
• Bartenders$38,420 a year

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