Counted November 8, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
Breakfast Cook: $36K median posted pay.
From 11 salary bands employers posted on 28 open breakfast cook roles in hospitality & food. Never an estimate.
The ladder, by level
What each rung pays.
No level is named often enough in these postings to build a ladder.
Levels as the postings name them. A rung shows a median only where eight or more postings at that level carried a band.
Who is hiring
The employers with the most open.
| Employer | Open roles | Entry level |
|---|---|---|
| Hy-Vee | 18 | — |
| Benchmark | 6 | — |
| Aspen Skiing Company | 1 | — |
| Heihotels | 1 | — |
| Sbcos | 1 | — |
| Mainsail Lodging & Development | 1 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open breakfast cook roles right now.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Line Cooking | 28 | — |
| Food Preparation | 22 | — |
| Customer Service | 19 | — |
| Store Management | 18 | — |
| Department Management | 18 | — |
| Baking and Pastry | 17 | — |
| Order Picking and Packing | 17 | — |
| Point of Sale Systems | 17 | — |
| Food Safety | 7 | — |
| Kitchen Management | 4 | — |
Where the work is
0% of these roles are remote.
- Remote0%0 roles
- Hybrid0%0 roles
- On site89%25 roles
- Not stated11%3 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 28 open postings read from employers’ own job boards on November 8, 2026, and recounted every night. Pay is the band the employer posted — never an estimate, never a model — and 11 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Breakfast Cook (Nights)” counts here too. 100% of roles with this title sit in hospitality & food, which is why this page belongs to that career. A title gets a page only where twenty-five or more roles are open, eight or more of them posted a band, three or more employers are hiring for it and four in five of its postings sit in one career, so no page here is a guess.