SALARY · FOOD PREPARATION WORKERS · ALABAMA

Food Preparation Workers salary in Alabama

Averages can hide a lot. Medians hide less. That is why this page leads with the median for food preparation workers in Alabama: $27,930 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

$27,930

$13 per hour at the median · That is $7,390 (20.9 percent) below the national median of $35,320 for this occupation.

$28,460Mean annual salary
$14Mean hourly wage
$17,680People employed in this job in Alabama

Salary range

25th: $22,000Median: $27,93075th: $34,490
MeasureAnnual
25th percentile$22,000
Median (50th percentile)$27,930
75th percentile$34,490
Mean$28,460

The middle half of workers earned from $22,000 to $34,490 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

$23,532 a year
$1,961 a month
Federal tax $1,183 · FICA $2,137 · State tax $1,079

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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