Fast Food and Counter Workers Salary in Austin, TX

Fast Food and Counter Workers pay range in Austin

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $22,480 a year or less, while the top 10% make $36,880 or more. The middle half of fast food and counter workers in Austin earn between $27,680 and $34,280.

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

Fast Food and Counter Workers salary after taxes in Austin

On the average salary of $30,130, a single filer in Austin takes home about $26,389 a year, or $2,199 a month and $1,015 every two weeks. Taxes take 12% of gross pay.

Single filer, standard deduction: federal income tax (2026 brackets), Social Security, Medicare and no state income tax.

Is Austin a good place for fast food and counter workers? Pay vs. cost of living

Prices in the Austin area are 2% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 98.1), so the average $30,130 buys what about $30,724 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.5 times the median wage of all jobs in Austin ($56,950). A typical home costs $428,524, or 14.2 years of this average salary before tax.

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Fast Food and Counter Workers salary in other Texas cities

Austin ranks 1st of 26 Texas metro areas for this job, the best-paid in the state.

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Highest-paying cities for fast food and counter workers

San Jose, CA pays this job the most of the metro areas we cover ($44,980).

Fast Food and Counter Workers salary by city

Related jobs in Austin

• Waiters and Waitresses$32,970 a year
• Bartenders$32,760 a year
• Food Servers, Nonrestaurant$32,350 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$68,120 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$45,310 a year
• Cooks, Fast Food$38,950 a year
• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$37,120 a year
• Food Preparation and Serving Related Workers, All Other$37,060 a year

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