Counted October 17, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
Food Service Worker: $41K median posted pay.
From 38 salary bands employers posted on 120 open food service worker roles in hospitality & food. Never an estimate.
The ladder, by level
What each rung pays.
| Level | Open roles | Median posted band | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mid | 5 | — (5 of 8 bands) | — |
| Senior | 3 | — (0 of 8 bands) | — |
| Junior | 2 | — (0 of 8 bands) | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Veterans Health Administration | 20 | — |
| Avera | 12 | — |
| Air Combat Command | 7 | — |
| Air Mobility Command | 6 | — |
| Banner Health | 6 | — |
| Massgeneralbrigham | 5 | — |
| Air Force Global Strike Command | 5 | — |
| Brownhealth | 5 | — |
| U.S. Air Forces, Europe | 4 | — |
| Virtua | 4 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open food service worker roles tonight.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Customer Service | 37 | — |
| Food Preparation | 36 | — |
| Food Safety | 24 | — |
| Cashiering | 19 | — |
| Cash Handling | 16 | — |
| Registered Nursing | 14 | — |
| OSHA Safety Compliance | 12 | — |
| Point of Sale Systems | 11 | — |
| Investigation | 11 | — |
| Docker | 10 | — |
Where the work is
0% of these roles are remote.
- Remote0%0 roles
- Hybrid0%0 roles
- On site80%96 roles
- Not stated20%24 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 120 open postings read from employers’ own job boards on October 17, 2026, and recounted every night. Pay is the band the employer posted — never an estimate, never a model — and 38 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Food Service Worker (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.