Cooks, Short Order Salary in Laredo, TX

Cooks, Short Order pay range in Laredo

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $20,260 a year or less, while the top 10% make $29,250 or more. The middle half of cooks, short order in Laredo earn between $21,440 and $23,660.

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

Cooks, Short Order salary after taxes in Laredo

On the average salary of $23,390, a single filer in Laredo takes home about $20,872 a year, or $1,739 a month and $803 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 Laredo a good place for cooks, short order? Pay vs. cost of living

Prices in the Laredo area are 13% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 87.0), so the average $23,390 buys what about $26,899 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.6 times the median wage of all jobs in Laredo ($37,250). A typical home costs $218,391, or 9.3 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Short Order salary in other Texas cities

Laredo ranks 15th 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 Laredo

• Food Preparation Workers$29,370 a year
• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$28,360 a year
• Cooks, Restaurant$27,710 a year
• Cooks, All Other$25,870 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$49,820 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$35,040 a year
• Bartenders$28,700 a year
• Waiters and Waitresses$27,540 a year

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