SALARY · COOKS, FAST FOOD · PENNSYLVANIA

Cooks, Fast Food salary in Pennsylvania

Averages can hide a lot. Medians hide less. That is why this page leads with the median for cooks, fast food in Pennsylvania: $28,810 a year. The mean is listed too, so you can see when a small group of high earners pulls the average upward.

MEDIAN ANNUAL SALARY

$28,810

$14 per hour at the median · That is $2,080 (6.7 percent) below the national median of $30,890 for this occupation.

$30,580Mean annual salary
$15Mean hourly wage
$9,240People employed in this job in Pennsylvania

Salary range

25th: $25,120Median: $28,81075th: $35,610
MeasureAnnual
25th percentile$25,120
Median (50th percentile)$28,810
75th percentile$35,610
Mean$30,580

The middle half of workers earned from $25,120 to $35,610 a year. Do not read the percentile range as good versus bad jobs. It mostly reflects experience, hours, employer type and local demand. A new starter near the 25th percentile and a veteran near the 75th can both be fairly paid for their stage.

What stays in your pocket on the median salary

ESTIMATED TAKE-HOME PAY

$24,444 a year
$2,037 a month
Federal tax $1,277 · FICA $2,204 · State tax $884

Caveat: the $0 deduction point for Pennsylvania was corroborated from a secondary host of the 2025 booklet, not from a pa.gov page.

Pennsylvania local earned income tax and the Philadelphia wage tax are separate and are not in this 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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