SALARY · FOOD SERVERS, NONRESTAURANT · VERMONT

Food Servers, Nonrestaurant salary in Vermont

Before you accept an offer, it helps to know what typical pay looks like where the job actually sits. For food servers, nonrestaurant in Vermont, BLS put the median at $37,540 a year. The percentiles below show what the lower and upper parts of the field looked like.

MEDIAN ANNUAL SALARY

$37,540

$18 per hour at the median · That is $2,180 (6.2 percent) above the national median of $35,360 for this occupation.

$40,840Mean annual salary
$20Mean hourly wage
$780People employed in this job in Vermont

Salary range

25th: $36,100Median: $37,54075th: $46,410
MeasureAnnual
25th percentile$36,100
Median (50th percentile)$37,540
75th percentile$46,410
Mean$40,840

The middle half of workers earned from $36,100 to $46,410 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 PAY BEFORE STATE TAX

$32,343 a year
$2,695 a month
Federal tax $2,325 · FICA $2,872

State tax is not in this figure. State tax for Vermont is not included, because the full 2026 state table for Vermont has not been verified in this build. Treat this figure as before state tax, not as a final take-home 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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