Hourly Rate for Food Service Worker Jobs

Updated: 2 Feb 2012
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$0$7$14$21
Hourly Rate$7.37 - $12.98  
   
Hourly Tips$0.17 - $12.67  
Overtime$7.90 - $18.66  
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$0$14K$28K$42K
Bonus$0.00 - $993  
   
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XTotal Pay combines base annual salary or hourly wage, bonuses, profit sharing, tips, commissions, overtime pay and other forms of cash earnings, as applicable for this job. It does not include equity (stock) compensation, cash value of retirement benefits, or the value of other non-cash benefits (e.g. healthcare).
)		$15,307 - $29,935  
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Companies and Industries for Food Service Worker Jobs

Popular Employers

Hourly Rate
McDonald's Restaurants Ltd.$6.64 - $9.13
Subway Restaurant Inc$7.11 - $9.14
Aramark Food Services$8.11 - $9.99
Taco Bell Corporation$7.57 - $8.02
Target Corporation$7.45 - $9.08
Popular Industries

Hourly Rate
Food Service$7.15 - $11.79
Fast Food Restaurant(s)$6.95 - $10.91
Hospital$7.87 - $13.80
Healthcare$7.57 - $13.11
Education, K-12 Schools$7.74 - $14.04

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Key Statistics for Food Service Worker Jobs

Gender
Female
66%
female alumni
  
Male
34%
male alumni
Hourly Rate:$8.15 - $11.12 $7.66 - $10.32
Years of Experience
Less than 1 year
6%
1-4 years
46%
5-9 years
23%
10-19 years
18%
20 years or more
7%
Top Degrees

Hourly Rate
Bachelor's Degree$7.36 - $13.61
Associate's Degree$7.35 - $15.32
GED or High School Diploma$8.14 - $11.25
High School Diploma$8.00 - $11.91
Associate of Business Administration (ABA)Not enough data
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medical benefits Medical: 41% dental benefits Dental: 33%
vision benefits Vision: 25% employee benefits None: 55%

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Career Path for Food Service Worker Jobs

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Common Future Jobs

Food Service Worker

Salary Range

$15,307 - $29,935
payscale
Cashier
$13,844 - $23,891
Food Server, Kitchen
$14,694 - $43,027
Waiter/Waitress
$7,772 - $38,996
 
Common Past Jobs
Common Future Jobs

Food Service Worker

Salary Range

$15,307 - $29,935
payscale
Certified Nurse Assistant (CNA)
$17,295 - $32,794
Food Service Supervisor
$18,575 - $49,784
Food Service Manager
$21,446 - $54,945
 

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Food Service Worker Job Description

People with the job title Food Service Worker typically fall into one of the following PayScale standard occupations.

First-Line Supervisors/Managers of Food Preparation and Serving Workers
Supervise workers engaged in preparing and serving food.
Cooks, Restaurant
Prepare, season, and cook soups, meats, vegetables, desserts, or other foodstuffs in restaurants. May order supplies, keep records and accounts, price items on menu, or plan menu.
Food Preparation Workers
Perform a variety of food preparation duties other than cooking, such as preparing cold foods and shellfish, slicing meat, and brewing coffee or tea.

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Assistant Manager in the Restaurant pay by salary
Food Service Worker - (City withheld for privacy), California, United States
To Whom It May Concern: For over 17 years, I've worked as a server at an Asian-American restaurant. In addition to handling regular duties waiting, cashiering and answering the phone, I was regularly called upon to assist in other parts of the business, because of my ability to speak five languages--including Vietnamese, Cambodian and Mandarin Chinese--as well as my experience dealing with a variety of cultures and personalities (both my restaurant's staff and clientele were quite diverse socio...
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