Turnover Cost: Restaurant Cooks, New York (2025)
Verified cost of employee turnover for the selected Restaurant Cooks population in New York, United States, drawn from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (2025-may).
Restaurant Cooks · New York, United States
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Estimated from a U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics annual mean wage of $43,150 for Restaurant Cooks in New York, United States (2025-may), multiplied by the 0.5×–2× cost of replacing an employee reported by SHRM and Gallup. The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes the wage, not the cost — the range is a planning estimate, and a real figure depends on time-to-fill, ramp-up, and lost productivity.
How Restaurant Cooks compares in New York, United States
Annual mean wage — the input to the estimate above, compared directly rather than as a derived range. See all 33 industries.
What this means
$43,150 is what restaurant cooks earn as their annual mean wage in New York. Staffing turnover carries an estimated replacement cost of $21,600 to $86,300 when you apply the SHRM benchmark of 50% to 200% of salary. The actual figure depends on how fast you can recruit locally, how long training runs, and what production you lose during hiring.
Estimated cost of turnover: Restaurant Cooks vs regional average
| Measure | Restaurant Cooks | Regional average |
|---|---|---|
| Estimated cost of turnover | $43,150 | $98,119 |