Executive Chef Salary

Highest Salaries By City for Executive Chef Jobs

Top Cities by Popularity for Executive Chef Jobs

Highest Salaries By City Top Cities by Popularity

Highest Salaries By City 1. Atlantic City, New Jersey 2. New York, New York 3. Washington, District of Columbia 4. Palo Alto, California 5. San Francisco, California 6. Fort Myers, Florida 7. Boston, Massachusetts 8. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 9. Detroit, Michigan 10. Naples, Florida 11. Los Angeles, California 12. Charlottesville, Virginia 13. Jackson, Mississippi 14. Boca Raton, Florida 15. Honolulu, Hawaii 16. Hartford, Connecticut 17. Chicago, Illinois 18. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19. Sarasota, Florida 20. Atlanta, Georgia Top Cities by Popularity 1. New York, New York 2. Seattle, Washington 3. Chicago, Illinois 4. Denver, Colorado 5. Los Angeles, California 6. San Francisco, California 7. Boston, Massachusetts

What is the Salary of a Chef?

On the popular reality series "Hell's Kitchen," Executive Chef Gordon Ramsay barks orders, calls names, and throws dishes in his dual pursuit of culinary perfection and good old-fashioned TV entertainment. While you won't find antics that extreme in the majority of restaurant kitchens, a great restaurant is a tightly-run ship, a-bustle with activity, with little room for mistakes. Getting a dinner service in the oven, on the plate, and on the table requires efficiency and nerves of steel. As they are the chefs who choose the menu, manage the staff and generally call the shots, executive chef salaries are among the highest in the industry.

Chef Salary Data

Researching Executive Chef Salaries by City reveals the unsurprising fact that the median executive chef salary is highest in New York, a city world-renowned for its cutting-edge restaurants. Compare this executive chef salary data to Pastry Chef Salaries by city for a bigger-picture look at how location can affect the salary of a chef. In fact, where one lives can have a much bigger effect on the salary of a chef than where one works; measuring Executive Chef Salaries by Industry shows that the salary of a chef working in a hotel tends to be higher than salaries in other employment settings. Of course, salary is just one consideration for a chef and, ultimately, executive chefs have the freedom to choose the venue that best suits them. What can all executive chefs do to get a salary increase? Wait it out. The Chef Salary by Years of Experience chart shows that the median salary of a chef tends to increase rapidly after several years of experience.