ZipRecruiter State Pages Show Taco Bell Pay Ranges From $11,318 to $50,415

Missouri Taco Bell listings on ZipRecruiter show an average annual pay of approximately $35,619, which converts to about $17.12 per hour, with that figure stamped as of Feb. 25, 2026 on the state page. This Missouri number is the most concrete, dated state figure available in the material reviewed and anchors the broader pay picture emerging from ZipRecruiter data in late February.

“In late February 2026, ZipRecruiter’s public state pages continue to show variation in Taco Bell employee pay across the U.S.;” the dataset cited includes wider swings: “While ZipRecruiter is seeing salaries as high as $50,415 and as low as $11,318,” and one excerpt begins “the majority of Taco Bell Employee salaries currently range between $22,600 (” but that latter line is truncated in the provided copy and the upper bound is missing. The ZipRecruiter excerpts do not specify whether the $50,415 and $11,318 values are national extremes, role-specific outliers, or state-level highs and lows.

The Missouri figure sits between those observed values. The copy explicitly notes that "the Missouri listing shows an average annual pay of approximately $35,619 (about $17.12 per hour) as of Feb. 25, 2026," which places Missouri above the $22,600 lower bound referenced in the truncated majority-range line and well above the $11,318 low cited elsewhere. Without the full ZipRecruiter range or state-by-state listings in hand, Missouri’s $35,619 is the clearest single-state benchmark available in the material.

Gaps in the provided excerpts are significant. The original material references a New York state page but that passage was cut off and the New York figure is not present in the copy reviewed. The excerpts also omit methodology details: there is no information on whether the ZipRecruiter “average” is a mean or median, how many salary observations underlie each state page, what job titles are included under the label “Taco Bell Employee,” or whether reported amounts include tips, bonuses, or other compensation.

Taken together, the ZipRecruiter snapshots available in late February 2026 point to substantial state-by-state variation in reported Taco Bell pay, with a dated Missouri average of about $35,619 (≈$17.12/hour) and dataset observations ranging from $11,318 to $50,415. Until ZipRecruiter provides the missing majority-range endpoint, the full New York page text, and methodological details, these numbers should be treated as provisional indicators of variation rather than a complete, role-specific wage profile.