Food Preparation Workers Salary in New Orleans, LA
Estimates come from the New Orleans-Metairie, LA metro area, the closest geography BLS publishes.
The median annual pay for Food Preparation Workers in New Orleans, LA is $26,200, 26% lower than the national median. BLS reports wages at the metro level, and New Orleans sits within the New Orleans-Metairie, LA metro area, so this is the closest official estimate for the city.
Across the New Orleans-Metairie, LA area, Food Preparation Workers pay runs from $18,490 to $36,210 a year, with about 7.3K people employed.
Median annual
$26,200
Median hourly
$13
Average annual
$27,140
Employed in metro
7.3K
Pay distribution
10th$18,490
25th$22,120
Median$26,200
75th$29,990
90th$36,210
Salary calculator
- Hourly
- $12.60
- Daily
- $101
- Weekly
- $504
- Bi-weekly
- $1,008
- Monthly
- $2,183
- Annual
- $26,200
$26,200 a year is around the 50th percentile for Food Preparation Workerss in New Orleans, LA. The median is $26,200.
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