SALARY · COOKS, FAST FOOD · MISSOURI

Cooks, Fast Food salary in Missouri

Before you accept an offer, it helps to know what typical pay looks like where the job actually sits. For cooks, fast food in Missouri, BLS put the median at $29,890 a year. The percentiles below show what the lower and upper parts of the field looked like.

MEDIAN ANNUAL SALARY

$29,890

$14 per hour at the median · That is $1,000 (3.2 percent) below the national median of $30,890 for this occupation.

$30,990Mean annual salary
$15Mean hourly wage
$55,780People employed in this job in Missouri

Salary range

25th: $28,790Median: $29,89075th: $31,080
MeasureAnnual
25th percentile$28,790
Median (50th percentile)$29,890
75th percentile$31,080
Mean$30,990

The middle half of workers earned from $28,790 to $31,080 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

$25,746 a year
$2,145 a month
Federal tax $1,407 · FICA $2,287 · State tax $451

Caveat: the annual 2026 MO-1040 instruction booklet was not retrieved. Brackets and standard deduction are in the official 2026 withholding formula, and the federal tax deduction schedule is in statute RSMo 143.171.

Kansas City and St. Louis 1 percent earnings taxes 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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