SALARY · COOKS, FAST FOOD · HAWAII

Cooks, Fast Food salary in Hawaii

Before you accept an offer, it helps to know what typical pay looks like where the job actually sits. For cooks, fast food in Hawaii, BLS put the median at $48,120 a year. The percentiles below show what the lower and upper parts of the field looked like.

MEDIAN ANNUAL SALARY

$48,120

$23 per hour at the median · That is $17,230 (55.8 percent) above the national median of $30,890 for this occupation.

$41,670Mean annual salary
$20Mean hourly wage
Not publishedPeople employed in this job in Hawaii

Salary range

25th: $29,120Median: $48,12075th: $49,260
MeasureAnnual
25th percentile$29,120
Median (50th percentile)$48,120
75th percentile$49,260
Mean$41,670

The middle half of workers earned from $29,120 to $49,260 a year. The gap between the mean and the median tells its own story. When the mean sits above the median, a smaller group at the top is pulling the average up. When the two are close, pay is more even across the field.

What stays in your pocket on the median salary

ESTIMATED PAY BEFORE STATE TAX

$40,844 a year
$3,404 a month
Federal tax $3,594 · FICA $3,681

State tax is not in this figure. State tax for Hawaii is not included, because the full 2026 state table for Hawaii has not been verified in this build. Treat this figure as before state tax, not as a final take-home figure.

Read this before you use the take-home figure. It is a single-filer estimate using the 2026 standard deduction. It leaves out credits, other deductions, local taxes, and retirement or health deductions. Your actual paycheck can differ, and for states without a verified 2026 table in this build, state tax is still to be added once its table is verified.

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