SALARY · FOOD SERVERS, NONRESTAURANT · OHIO

Food Servers, Nonrestaurant salary in Ohio

Before you accept an offer, it helps to know what typical pay looks like where the job actually sits. For food servers, nonrestaurant in Ohio, BLS put the median at $30,440 a year. The percentiles below show what the lower and upper parts of the field looked like.

MEDIAN ANNUAL SALARY

$30,440

$15 per hour at the median · That is $4,920 (13.9 percent) below the national median of $35,360 for this occupation.

$32,470Mean annual salary
$16Mean hourly wage
$15,320People employed in this job in Ohio

Salary range

25th: $28,340Median: $30,44075th: $36,110
MeasureAnnual
25th percentile$28,340
Median (50th percentile)$30,440
75th percentile$36,110
Mean$32,470

The middle half of workers earned from $28,340 to $36,110 a year. The gap between the mean and the median tells its own story. When the mean sits above the median, a smaller group at the top is pulling the average up. When the two are close, pay is more even across the field.

What stays in your pocket on the median salary

ESTIMATED TAKE-HOME PAY

$26,272 a year
$2,189 a month
Federal tax $1,473 · FICA $2,329 · State tax $367

Caveat: the Ohio Department of Taxation 2026 IT 1040 instructions booklet was not retrieved. Verification rests on enacted law plus the Legislative Service Commission tax year 2026 table, not on a Department booklet.

Ohio municipal income taxes and school district taxes are separate, location specific, and are not in this figure.

Read this before you use the take-home figure. It is a single-filer estimate using the 2026 standard deduction. It leaves out credits, other deductions, local taxes, and retirement or health deductions. Your actual paycheck can differ, and for states without a verified 2026 table in this build, state tax is still to be added once its table is verified.

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