SALARY · WAITERS AND WAITRESSES · ARIZONA

Waiters and Waitresses salary in Arizona

Before you accept an offer, it helps to know what typical pay looks like where the job actually sits. For waiters and waitresses in Arizona, BLS put the median at $43,950 a year. The percentiles below show what the lower and upper parts of the field looked like.

MEDIAN ANNUAL SALARY

$43,950

$21 per hour at the median · That is $8,720 (24.8 percent) above the national median of $35,230 for this occupation.

$51,170Mean annual salary
$25Mean hourly wage
$55,950People employed in this job in Arizona

Salary range

25th: $33,850Median: $43,95075th: $63,020
MeasureAnnual
25th percentile$33,850
Median (50th percentile)$43,950
75th percentile$63,020
Mean$51,170

The middle half of workers earned from $33,850 to $63,020 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 PAY BEFORE STATE TAX

$37,494 a year
$3,124 a month
Federal tax $3,094 · FICA $3,362

State tax is not in this figure. State tax for Arizona is not included, because the full 2026 state table for Arizona has not been verified in this build. Treat this figure as before state tax, not as a final take-home 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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