Counted October 22, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
Kitchen Manager: $69K median posted pay.
From 17 salary bands employers posted on 25 open kitchen manager 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 | $69K | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Convive Brands | 8 | — |
| Dave & Buster's Homepage | 7 | — |
| DoorDash | 3 | — |
| Global Partners | 3 | — |
| Harlem Children's Zone | 1 | — |
| Avenues Recovery | 1 | — |
| Cresco Labs | 1 | — |
| Fixins Soul Kitchen | 1 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open kitchen manager roles tonight.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Food Safety | 12 | — |
| Inventory and Ordering | 8 | — |
| Kitchen Management | 7 | — |
| Line Cooking | 4 | — |
| Inventory Control | 4 | — |
| Safety Audits | 3 | — |
| Spreadsheet Analysis | 3 | — |
| Performance Management | 3 | — |
| Allergen Management | 3 | — |
| Portion Control | 3 | — |
Where the work is
0% of these roles are remote.
- Remote0%0 roles
- Hybrid0%0 roles
- On site100%25 roles
- Not stated0%0 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 22, 2026, and recounted every night. Pay is the band the employer posted — never an estimate, never a model — and 17 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Kitchen Manager (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.