Cooks, All Other

Cooks, All Other pays $37,690 where the typical American job pays $50,020 — $12,330 a year short, or $5.92 an hour. That is a liveable wage in a cheap state and a difficult one in an expensive city, and nothing about the national figure tells you which you would be in.

Employment as Cooks, All Other is 19,350 nationally. At that size a large city holds a working market and a small one holds almost none, so where you live changes the number of employers available to you by an order of magnitude.

Cooking suits people who work fast under time pressure in a hot, loud room, and who like that the shift ends when it ends.

We carry no verified training length for Cooks, All Other — BLS reports pay, not preparation, and we will not estimate it.

The middle half runs $32,150 to $43,680 — $960 a month between the quarters, a 1.4x ratio. Spreads this narrow are usually set by a grade or a scale, so the negotiation you are imagining probably is not available.

The bottom quarter is under $32,150, $17,870 short of the $50,020 typical American job. The question worth answering before entering Cooks, All Other is how long people spend in that quarter, because the median says nothing about it.

Avoid it if you need predictable hours, or a workplace that is not hot, loud and physically punishing.

No failure rate is shown, and the absence is deliberate: the 19,350 figure counts people already working as Cooks, All Other, not everyone who trained and never got hired. Without a licensing register to divide by, a rate here would be an invented denominator.

The quarters are $32,150 and $43,680, a ratio of 1.4x. In a distribution this narrow, the biggest single lever on your pay in Cooks, All Other is the cost of living where you do it.

The middle half of this field earns between $32,150 and $43,680. That is $11,530 of range, with $37,690 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.

The 75th percentile is $43,680. Reaching it from the $37,690 midpoint is $5,990 a year; reaching it from the $32,150 that the bottom quarter of Cooks, All Other earn is $11,530.

$5,540 down to $32,150, $5,990 up to $43,680: the midpoint of Cooks, All Other is centred in its own middle half. That symmetry is why the median and the average would say much the same thing here, which is not true of most pages on this site.

Converted to an hourly rate over a full-time year: $15.45 at the bottom quarter, $18.12 at the midpoint, $21.00 at the top quarter. The typical American job works out at $24.04 on the same basis.