Cooks, Short Order Salary in Appleton, WI

Cooks, Short Order pay range in Appleton

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $23,620 a year or less, while the top 10% make $40,500 or more. The middle half of cooks, short order in Appleton earn between $27,620 and $30,980.

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

Cooks, Short Order salary after taxes in Appleton

On the average salary of $31,410, a single filer in Appleton takes home about $26,757 a year, or $2,230 a month and $1,029 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 (2026 rules).

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

Prices in the Appleton area are 8% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 92.4), so the average $31,410 buys what about $33,987 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.6 times the median wage of all jobs in Appleton ($49,910). A typical home costs $350,370, or 11.2 years of this average salary before tax.

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Cooks, Short Order salary in other Wisconsin cities

Appleton ranks 2nd of 7 Wisconsin metro areas for this job; La Crosse pays the most ($31,510).

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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 Appleton

• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$38,940 a year
• Cooks, Restaurant$35,740 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$33,740 a year
• Cooks, Fast Food$29,960 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$61,010 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$42,980 a year
• Waiters and Waitresses$36,600 a year
• Food Servers, Nonrestaurant$34,090 a year

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