Food Preparation Workers Salary in San Jose, CA
Estimates come from the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA metro area, the closest geography BLS publishes.
The median annual pay for Food Preparation Workers in San Jose, CA is $45,580, 29% higher than the national median. BLS reports wages at the metro level, and San Jose sits within the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA metro area, so this is the closest official estimate for the city.
Across the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA area, Food Preparation Workers pay runs from $37,340 to $55,550 a year, with about 5.9K people employed.
Median annual
$45,580
Median hourly
$22
Average annual
$45,660
Employed in metro
5.9K
Pay distribution
10th$37,340
25th$39,960
Median$45,580
75th$47,890
90th$55,550
Salary calculator
- Hourly
- $21.91
- Daily
- $175
- Weekly
- $877
- Bi-weekly
- $1,753
- Monthly
- $3,798
- Annual
- $45,580
$45,580 a year is around the 50th percentile for Food Preparation Workerss in San Jose, CA. The median is $45,580.
Food Preparation Workers in other metro areas
- Kahului-Wailuku, HI$46,680
- San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA$45,580
- Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA$43,830
- Napa, CA$42,810
- Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA$42,640
- Yakima, WA$41,750
- San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA$41,000
- Amherst Town-Northampton, MA$40,140