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United States · BLS May 2025

Cooks, Private Household Salary

The Bureau of Labor Statistics counted 1,100 cooks, private household across the country. Pay varies more by state than most people expect, and the state that pays most is not always the one that leaves most.

Median pay · the United States

$47,940A year, or $23.05 an hour.
Jobs counted1,100Wage and salary jobs
What cooks, private household earn in the United States, May 2025
PercentileAnnualHourly
10th percentileEntry and lowest-paid$36,090$17.35
25th percentile$40,630$19.54
MedianHalf earn more, half less$47,940$23.05
75th percentile$55,450$26.66
90th percentileMost experienced and senior$91,130$43.81
MeanThe average, pulled up by the top$53,680$25.81
How we got this
  1. Median wage in the United StatesBLS OEWS May 2025. Half of cooks, private household earned more than this, half less.$47,940
  2. Median hourly wagePublished separately by BLS, not divided out of the annual figure.$23.05
  3. Jobs countedWage and salary jobs; the self-employed are not surveyed.1,100
What we assumed
  • Wages are BLS OEWS survey estimates for May 2025, not job postings or offers.
  • OEWS surveys wage and salary workers. The self-employed and business owners are outside it.
Technical details

Method occupation-wage-v1Data bls-oews-2025-05-v1

Which state pays cooks, private household the most?

New York pays a median of $37,440, New York $37,440. That is a gap of $0 before either state's taxes or prices are counted.

  • New York. Take-home there depends on New York wage tax, which the salary-after-tax calculator computes on this median.
  • The nominal figure is not the comparison. A higher salary in an expensive state can leave less than a lower one somewhere cheap. Each state page adjusts for tax and price level.

Every state

Cooks, Private Household salary by state

Where cooks, private household are paid most, by state median
StateJobsMedian a year
New YorkConcentration 2.12140$37,440

Common questions

Cooks, Private Household pay in the United States, answered

How much does a Cooks, Private Household make?

The median wage for cooks, private household in the United States is $47,940 a year, or $23.05 an hour.

Half earn more than that and half earn less. The figure comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics occupational wage survey for May 2025.

What do the highest-paid cooks, private household earn?

The top tenth earn $91,130 a year or more, against $36,090 at the bottom tenth.

Experience, specialism, employer and the part of the United States someone works in all move a wage inside that range; the survey reports the spread, not the reason for it.

How many cooks, private household are there in the United States?

The survey counted 1,100 of these jobs in the United States for May 2025.

It counts wage and salary jobs, so the self-employed are outside it.

Sources

Where this data comes from

BLS Occupational Employment and Wage StatisticsMay 2025 estimates, cross-industry, wage and salary workersMay 2025 ↗