Food Servers, Nonrestaurant Salary in Kankakee, IL

Food Servers, Nonrestaurant pay range in Kankakee

New workers and the lowest-paid 10% earn about $31,200 a year or less, while the top 10% make $36,410 or more. The middle half of food servers, nonrestaurant in Kankakee earn between $31,350 and $34,320.

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

Food Servers, Nonrestaurant salary after taxes in Kankakee

On the average salary of $33,580, a single filer in Kankakee takes home about $27,640 a year, or $2,303 a month and $1,063 every two weeks. Taxes take 18% of gross pay.

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

Is Kankakee a good place for food servers, nonrestaurant? Pay vs. cost of living

Prices in the Kankakee area are 4% below the U.S. average (BEA price parity 96.4), so the average $33,580 buys what about $34,836 would buy in a typical U.S. metro. This job pays 0.7 times the median wage of all jobs in Kankakee ($45,830). A typical home costs $223,721, or 6.7 years of this average salary before tax.

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Food Servers, Nonrestaurant salary in other Illinois cities

Kankakee ranks 8th of 8 Illinois metro areas for this job; Chicago pays the most ($36,550).

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Kahului, HI pays this job the most of the metro areas we cover ($59,020).

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Related jobs in Kankakee

• Bartenders$35,970 a year
• Waiters and Waitresses$34,960 a year
• Fast Food and Counter Workers$32,420 a year
• Chefs and Head Cooks$51,650 a year
• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$40,390 a year
• Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$37,300 a year
• Cooks, Restaurant$36,430 a year
• Food Preparation Workers$33,530 a year

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