SALARY · COOKS, FAST FOOD · ALABAMA

Cooks, Fast Food salary in Alabama

If Alabama is on your shortlist, start here. The median annual pay for cooks, fast food was $27,870. That one figure will not decide a move on its own, but it sets the range for everything else, from housing to how much you can save.

MEDIAN ANNUAL SALARY

$27,870

$13 per hour at the median · That is $3,020 (9.8 percent) below the national median of $30,890 for this occupation.

$27,570Mean annual salary
$13Mean hourly wage
$26,740People employed in this job in Alabama

Salary range

25th: $23,590Median: $27,87075th: $29,380
MeasureAnnual
25th percentile$23,590
Median (50th percentile)$27,870
75th percentile$29,380
Mean$27,570

The middle half of workers earned from $23,590 to $29,380 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

$23,485 a year
$1,957 a month
Federal tax $1,177 · FICA $2,132 · State tax $1,076

Caveat: the Alabama 2026 Form 40 return instruction booklet was not retrieved as a single document. Brackets, standard deduction table and federal tax deduction rest on the 2026 Form 40ES worksheet and statute.

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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