Counted October 19, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
Chef De Cuisine: $73K median posted pay.
From 8 salary bands employers posted on 25 open chef de cuisine roles in hospitality & food. Never an estimate.
The ladder, by level
What each rung pays.
| Level | Open roles | Median posted band | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|
| Management | 25 | $73K | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Naked Farmer Careers | 8 | — |
| DIG INN Restaurant Teams | 3 | — |
| Relais & Châteaux | 3 | — |
| Eataly North America | 2 | — |
| Asmglobal | 2 | — |
| Gracious Hospitality Management | 1 | — |
| The June | 1 | — |
| Hri Hospitality | 1 | — |
| Benchmark | 1 | — |
| Harvard University | 1 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open chef de cuisine roles tonight.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Kitchen Management | 23 | — |
| Food Preparation | 13 | — |
| Inventory and Ordering | 11 | — |
| Menu Development | 11 | — |
| Food Safety | 10 | — |
| Performance Management | 9 | — |
| Line Cooking | 5 | — |
| Customer Service | 5 | — |
| Inventory Control | 5 | — |
| Payroll Processing | 4 | — |
Where the work is
0% of these roles are remote.
- Remote0%0 roles
- Hybrid0%0 roles
- On site92%23 roles
- Not stated8%2 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 25 open postings read from employers’ own job boards on October 19, 2026, and recounted every night. Pay is the band the employer posted — never an estimate, never a model — and 8 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Chef De Cuisine (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.