Hourly wage of US fast food cooks 2021

Cooks working in fast food restaurants in the United States had a median hourly wage of 13.29 U.S. dollars as of May 2021. Meanwhile, 10 percent of fast food cooks earned less than 9.94 U.S. dollars per hour.

Hourly wage estimates of fast food cooks in the United States from 2018 to 2022, by percentile distribution (in U.S. dollars)

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Release date

April 2023

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Region

United States

Survey time period

2018 to 2022

Special properties

as of May each year

Supplementary notes

A percentile wage shows the percentage of workers in an occupation that earn less than a given wage and the percentage that earn more. The median wage is the 50th percentile wage estimate - 50 percent of workers earn less than the median and 50 percent of workers earn more than the median.

Fast food cooks prepare and cook in a fast food restaurant with a limited menu. Duties of the cooks are limited to preparation of a few basic items and normally involve operating large-volume single-purpose cooking equipment.

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