SALARY · FOOD SERVERS, NONRESTAURANT · NORTH CAROLINA

Food Servers, Nonrestaurant salary in North Carolina

Averages can hide a lot. Medians hide less. That is why this page leads with the median for food servers, nonrestaurant in North Carolina: $31,460 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

$31,460

$15 per hour at the median · That is $3,900 (11.0 percent) below the national median of $35,360 for this occupation.

$33,150Mean annual salary

$16Mean hourly wage

$8,820People employed in this job in North Carolina

Salary range

25th: $27,880Median: $31,46075th: $37,540

Measure	Annual
25th percentile	$27,880
Median (50th percentile)	$31,460
75th percentile	$37,540
Mean	$33,150

The middle half of workers earned from $27,880 to $37,540 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

$26,712 a year

$2,226 a month

Federal tax $1,595 · FICA $2,407 · State tax $747

Caveat: the North Carolina rate is from NCDOR, but the $12,750 deduction comes from the statute text, not an NCDOR deduction page.

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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