Chef Salaries in the United States
How much does a Chef make in the United States?
Chefs earn $40,000 annually on average, or $19 per hour, which is 49% less than the national average for all working Americans. Our data indicates that the best paid Chefs work for CBS Broadcasting at $127,000 annually while the lowest paid Chefs work for Marco's Pizza earning approximately $15,000 each year.
Submit a Salary$41K Compass Group's Average Chef Salary (42 salaries)
+$1K (2%) more than national average Chef salary ($40K)
-$9K (19%) less than average Compass Group salary ($50K)
+$24K (45%) more than average Compass Group Chef salary ($41K)
"It was competitive, but it could had been higher due to the amount of work we achieved."
$36K
Compass Group Chef
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-$5K (12%) less than average Compass Group Chef salary ($41K)
$41K
Compass Group Chef
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Equal to average Compass Group Chef salary ($41K)
$73K Samovar Russian Restaurant's Average Chef Salary (1 salaries)
+$33K (58%) more than national average Chef salary ($40K)
Equal to average Samovar Russian Restaurant salary ($73K)
Equal to average Samovar Russian Restaurant Chef salary ($73K)
"I think I could've done more but the present financial time makes it hard."
$50K Moe's Southwest Grill's Average Chef Salary (1 salaries)
+$10K (22%) more than national average Chef salary ($40K)
+$20K (50%) more than average Moe's Southwest Grill salary ($30K)
Equal to average Moe's Southwest Grill Chef salary ($50K)
"very good"
$50K 2 French Chicks' Average Chef Salary (1 salaries)
+$10K (22%) more than national average Chef salary ($40K)
Equal to average 2 French Chicks salary ($50K)
Equal to average 2 French Chicks Chef salary ($50K)
"I am not really paid by my company. My expenses are paid by the company as well as my food."
$45K Neiman Marcus' Average Chef Salary (1 salaries)
+$5K (11%) more than national average Chef salary ($40K)
Equal to average Neiman Marcus salary ($45K)
Equal to average Neiman Marcus Chef salary ($45K)
"For my current position I'm underpaid."
$40K Cantex Continuing Care Network 's Average Chef Salary (1 salaries)
Equal to national average Chef salary ($40K)
+$2K (5%) more than average Cantex Continuing Care Network salary ($38K)
Equal to average Cantex Continuing Care Network Chef salary ($40K)
"Underpaid for the line of work."
$40K DFS Gourmet Foods' Average Chef Salary (1 salaries)
Equal to national average Chef salary ($40K)
-$53K (79%) less than average DFS Gourmet Foods salary ($93K)
Equal to average DFS Gourmet Foods Chef salary ($40K)
"Totally underpaid. if I got what I am worth, I would be well off."
$36K Tricentris' Average Chef Salary (1 salaries)
-$4K (10%) less than national average Chef salary ($40K)
Equal to average Tricentris salary ($36K)
$36K
Tricentris Chef
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Equal to average Tricentris Chef salary ($36K)
"I'm underpaid, since their are no supervisors present at night I have to make decision that affect production, I also have to take charge of personnel situation."
$31K Advent Health's Average Chef Salary (1 salaries)
-$9K (25%) less than national average Chef salary ($40K)
-$25K (57%) less than average Advent Health salary ($56K)
Equal to average Advent Health Chef salary ($31K)
"underpaid"
$27K Pierpont Community & Technical College's Average Chef Salary (1 salaries)
-$13K (38%) less than national average Chef salary ($40K)
+$8K (34%) more than average Pierpont Community & Technical College salary ($19K)
Equal to average Pierpont Community & Technical College Chef salary ($27K)
"I started at 10.25 CAD for one hour, but my boss raised my salary to 11 CAD, when he saw I could do my work by myself and could do it better than other chef."
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