SALARY · COOKS, RESTAURANT · WEST VIRGINIA

Cooks, Restaurant salary in West Virginia

Before you accept an offer, it helps to know what typical pay looks like where the job actually sits. For cooks, restaurant in West Virginia, BLS put the median at $29,590 a year. The percentiles below show what the lower and upper parts of the field looked like.

MEDIAN ANNUAL SALARY

$29,590

$14 per hour at the median · That is $7,800 (20.9 percent) below the national median of $37,390 for this occupation.

$30,950Mean annual salary
$15Mean hourly wage
$6,450People employed in this job in West Virginia

Salary range

25th: $26,790Median: $29,59075th: $35,170
MeasureAnnual
25th percentile$26,790
Median (50th percentile)$29,590
75th percentile$35,170
Mean$30,950

The middle half of workers earned from $26,790 to $35,170 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

$25,956 a year
$2,163 a month
Federal tax $1,371 · FICA $2,264

State tax is not in this figure. State tax for West Virginia is not included, because the full 2026 state table for West Virginia 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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