Cooks, Short Order Salary in Tyler, TX

Cooks, Short Order pay range in Tyler

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $21,230 a year or less, while the top 10% make $32,960 or more. The middle half of cooks, short order in Tyler earn between $21,620 and $29,110.

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

Cooks, Short Order salary after taxes in Tyler

On the average salary of $25,470, a single filer in Tyler takes home about $22,585 a year, or $1,882 a month and $869 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 Tyler a good place for cooks, short order? Pay vs. cost of living

Prices in the Tyler area are 8% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 92.2), so the average $25,470 buys what about $27,638 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.5 times the median wage of all jobs in Tyler ($42,650). A typical home costs $272,063, or 10.7 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Short Order salary in other Texas cities

Tyler ranks 11th 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 Tyler

• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$32,000 a year
• Cooks, Restaurant$30,640 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$29,010 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$52,950 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$37,460 a year
• Bartenders$30,880 a year
• Food Servers, Nonrestaurant$28,240 a year
• Dishwashers$27,890 a year

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