Cooks, Short Order Salary in Staunton, VA

Cooks, Short Order pay range in Staunton

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $27,460 a year or less, while the top 10% make $35,270 or more. The middle half of cooks, short order in Staunton earn between $27,920 and $32,360.

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

Cooks, Short Order salary after taxes in Staunton

On the average salary of $30,570, a single filer in Staunton takes home about $25,799 a year, or $2,150 a month and $992 every two weeks. Taxes take 16% of gross pay.

Single filer, standard deduction: federal income tax (2026 brackets), Social Security, Medicare and state income tax (2025 rules).

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

Prices in the Staunton area are 9% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 91.1), so the average $30,570 buys what about $33,546 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.6 times the median wage of all jobs in Staunton ($48,040). A typical home costs $334,927, or 11.0 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Short Order salary in other Virginia cities

Staunton ranks 4th 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 Staunton

• Cooks, Restaurant$35,900 a year
• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$35,820 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$33,630 a year
• Bartenders$47,750 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$44,330 a year
• Waiters and Waitresses$43,820 a year
• Food Servers, Nonrestaurant$34,170 a year
• Dishwashers$32,980 a year

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