SALARY · WAITERS AND WAITRESSES · IOWA

Waiters and Waitresses salary in Iowa

Before you accept an offer, it helps to know what typical pay looks like where the job actually sits. For waiters and waitresses in Iowa, BLS put the median at $21,000 a year. The percentiles below show what the lower and upper parts of the field looked like.

MEDIAN ANNUAL SALARY

$21,000

$10 per hour at the median · That is $14,230 (40.4 percent) below the national median of $35,230 for this occupation.

$26,940Mean annual salary
$13Mean hourly wage
$22,410People employed in this job in Iowa

Salary range

25th: $15,080Median: $21,00075th: $35,370
MeasureAnnual
25th percentile$15,080
Median (50th percentile)$21,000
75th percentile$35,370
Mean$26,940

The middle half of workers earned from $15,080 to $35,370 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

$18,757 a year
$1,563 a month
Federal tax $490 · FICA $1,606 · State tax $146

Iowa school district and county EMS surtaxes are separate 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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