SALARY · FOOD PREPARATION WORKERS · KENTUCKY

Food Preparation Workers salary in Kentucky

Before you accept an offer, it helps to know what typical pay looks like where the job actually sits. For food preparation workers in Kentucky, BLS put the median at $26,850 a year. The percentiles below show what the lower and upper parts of the field looked like.

MEDIAN ANNUAL SALARY

$26,850

$13 per hour at the median · That is $8,470 (24.0 percent) below the national median of $35,320 for this occupation.

$28,760Mean annual salary
$14Mean hourly wage
$15,390People employed in this job in Kentucky

Salary range

25th: $22,790Median: $26,85075th: $33,890
MeasureAnnual
25th percentile$22,790
Median (50th percentile)$26,850
75th percentile$33,890
Mean$28,760

The middle half of workers earned from $22,790 to $33,890 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

$22,899 a year
$1,908 a month
Federal tax $1,075 · FICA $2,054 · State tax $822

Caveat: the Kentucky form was retrieved via a reproduction, not directly from revenue.ky.gov.

Kentucky city and county occupational 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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