Cooks, Restaurant
Pinehurst-Southern Pines, NC metropolitan area. Estimated employment 670.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of people in this occupation in Pinehurst earn more.
$35,690 in Pinehurst buys what $40,400 buys across the country as a whole.
Pinehurst's regional price parity is 88.3 — well below the national average — the nominal figure understates local buying power considerably. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.
The same job, elsewhere in North Carolina
Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.
| Metro area | Median | Adjusted | RPP | vs. Pinehurst |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charlotte | $37,030 | $38,000 | 97.3 | −5.9% |
| Asheville | $36,590 | $37,900 | 96.5 | −6.2% |
| Raleigh | $36,280 | $37,000 | 98.2 | −8.5% |
| Durham | $36,170 | $37,100 | 97.6 | −8.2% |
| Pinehurst This page | $35,690 | $40,400 | 88.3 | — |
| Wilmington | $34,940 | $36,200 | 96.4 | −10.3% |
| Winston | $34,600 | $37,600 | 92.0 | −7.0% |
| Greensboro | $34,550 | $37,200 | 92.9 | −7.9% |
Price parity and difference against Pinehurst are in the full table on wider screens.
How this page was made
- Wage data
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 release. Public domain.
- Price parity
- Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities, 2024.
- Employment
- 670 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 35-2014, Cooks, Restaurant. Mapped to our taxonomy as cooks-restaurant.
Percentiles are reported exactly as released and are never interpolated between published values. We take no payment from employers, recruiters or anyone else for how any figure is presented.