Cooks, Short Order Salary in Roanoke, VA

Cooks, Short Order pay range in Roanoke

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $25,810 a year or less, while the top 10% make $36,240 or more. The middle half of cooks, short order in Roanoke earn between $26,180 and $31,130.

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

Cooks, Short Order salary after taxes in Roanoke

On the average salary of $30,020, a single filer in Roanoke takes home about $25,389 a year, or $2,116 a month and $977 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 (2025 rules).

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

Prices in the Roanoke area are 6% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 93.6), so the average $30,020 buys what about $32,066 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.6 times the median wage of all jobs in Roanoke ($47,140). A typical home costs $301,139, or 10.0 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Short Order salary in other Virginia cities

Roanoke ranks 5th of 5 Virginia metro areas for this job; Richmond pays the most ($31,870).

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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 Roanoke

• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$36,780 a year
• Cooks, Restaurant$34,370 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$31,740 a year
• Cooks, Fast Food$30,590 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$59,700 a year
• Bartenders$51,590 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$42,210 a year
• Waiters and Waitresses$42,030 a year

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