Food Preparation Workers Salary in College Station, TX

Food Preparation Workers pay range in College Station

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $22,250 a year or less, while the top 10% make $45,290 or more. The middle half of food preparation workers in College Station earn between $28,630 and $36,350.

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

Food Preparation Workers salary after taxes in College Station

On the average salary of $33,200, a single filer in College Station takes home about $28,856 a year, or $2,405 a month and $1,110 every two weeks. Taxes take 13% of gross pay.

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

Is College Station a good place for food preparation workers? Pay vs. cost of living

Prices in the College Station area are 9% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 91.0), so the average $33,200 buys what about $36,503 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.8 times the median wage of all jobs in College Station ($44,470). A typical home costs $310,961, or 9.4 years of this average salary before tax.

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Food Preparation Workers salary in other Texas cities

College Station ranks 4th of 26 Texas metro areas for this job; Austin pays the most ($34,550).

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Highest-paying cities for food preparation workers

Kahului, HI pays this job the most of the metro areas we cover ($48,150).

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Related jobs in College Station

• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$34,010 a year
• Cooks, Restaurant$31,660 a year
• Cooks, All Other$28,700 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$56,540 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$39,520 a year
• Food Preparation and Serving Related Workers, All Other$30,370 a year
• Bartenders$28,960 a year
• Waiters and Waitresses$28,600 a year

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