Food Preparation Workers Salary in Newark, NJ
Estimates come from the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area, the closest geography BLS publishes.
The median annual pay for Food Preparation Workers in Newark, NJ is $35,670, 1% higher than the national median. BLS reports wages at the metro level, and Newark sits within the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area, so this is the closest official estimate for the city.
Across the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ area, Food Preparation Workers pay runs from $34,080 to $47,650 a year, with about 64K people employed.
Median annual
$35,670
Median hourly
$17
Average annual
$38,790
Employed in metro
64K
Pay distribution
10th$34,080
25th$34,330
Median$35,670
75th$41,600
90th$47,650
Salary calculator
- Hourly
- $17.15
- Daily
- $137
- Weekly
- $686
- Bi-weekly
- $1,372
- Monthly
- $2,973
- Annual
- $35,670
$35,670 a year is around the 50th percentile for Food Preparation Workerss in Newark, NJ. The median is $35,670.
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