Cooks, Short Order Salary in Amarillo, TX

Cooks, Short Order pay range in Amarillo

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $21,830 a year or less, while the top 10% make $33,420 or more. The middle half of cooks, short order in Amarillo earn between $21,840 and $27,970.

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

Cooks, Short Order salary after taxes in Amarillo

On the average salary of $25,850, a single filer in Amarillo takes home about $22,897 a year, or $1,908 a month and $881 every two weeks. Taxes take 11% of gross pay.

Single filer, standard deduction: federal income tax (2026 brackets), Social Security, Medicare and no state income tax.

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

Prices in the Amarillo area are 8% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 91.8), so the average $25,850 buys what about $28,153 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.6 times the median wage of all jobs in Amarillo ($44,580). A typical home costs $219,904, or 8.5 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Short Order salary in other Texas cities

Amarillo ranks 10th of 15 Texas metro areas for this job; Austin pays the most ($32,440).

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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 Amarillo

• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$32,800 a year
• Cooks, Restaurant$30,880 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$30,390 a year
• Cooks, Fast Food$28,130 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$50,810 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$38,760 a year
• Bartenders$30,300 a year
• Food Servers, Nonrestaurant$28,420 a year

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