Cooks, Short Order Salary in Omaha, NE

Cooks, Short Order pay range in Omaha

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $28,080 a year or less, while the top 10% make $43,870 or more. The middle half of cooks, short order in Omaha earn between $28,080 and $36,760.

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

Cooks, Short Order salary after taxes in Omaha

On the average salary of $34,110, a single filer in Omaha takes home about $28,915 a year, or $2,410 a month and $1,112 every two weeks. Taxes take 15% of gross pay.

The Omaha, NE-IA metro area crosses state lines, so take-home pay depends on the state where you work:

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

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

Prices in the Omaha area are 8% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 91.9), so the average $34,110 buys what about $37,112 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.7 times the median wage of all jobs in Omaha ($49,660). A typical home costs $310,337, or 9.1 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Short Order salary in other Nebraska cities

Omaha ranks 1st of 3 Nebraska metro areas for this job, the best-paid in the state.

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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 Omaha

• Cooks, Restaurant$38,400 a year
• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$37,560 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$35,610 a year
• Cooks, Fast Food$32,490 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$66,820 a year
• Food Preparation and Serving Related Workers, All Other$46,250 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$43,370 a year
• Bartenders$40,150 a year

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