SALARY · COOKS, RESTAURANT · IOWA

Cooks, Restaurant salary in Iowa

Before you accept an offer, it helps to know what typical pay looks like where the job actually sits. For cooks, restaurant in Iowa, BLS put the median at $35,670 a year. The percentiles below show what the lower and upper parts of the field looked like.

MEDIAN ANNUAL SALARY

$35,670

$17 per hour at the median · That is $1,720 (4.6 percent) below the national median of $37,390 for this occupation.

$35,700Mean annual salary
$17Mean hourly wage
$12,270People employed in this job in Iowa

Salary range

25th: $30,360Median: $35,67075th: $38,180
MeasureAnnual
25th percentile$30,360
Median (50th percentile)$35,670
75th percentile$38,180
Mean$35,700

The middle half of workers earned from $30,360 to $38,180 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 TAKE-HOME PAY

$30,137 a year
$2,511 a month
Federal tax $2,100 · FICA $2,729 · State tax $704

Iowa school district and county EMS surtaxes 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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