You Won’t Get Rich Cooking, But You Might Die Trying

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For a career that requires a lot from its workers—expensive degrees, unpaid internships, bone-crunchingly long days—being a cook pays pretty crappy. On average, annual salaries are about $57K for chefs de cuisine and $42K for sous-chefs, according to StarChefs.com's 2009 salary survey. Huh, that doesn't sound that bad! But wait. StarChefs.com's respondents are drawn from particularly high-end restaurants: 69 percent of them come from "small group" or single-unit independent restaurants. In other words, fine dining, not the Cheesecake Factory. This is what a group of fairly elite cooks make.

Break it down hourly and the picture gets pretty depressing. Especially when you realize you could make about the same amount of money driving a school bus. And get summers off.
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Source: You Won’t Get Rich Cooking, But You Might Die Trying - Food Media - Top Stories - CHOW
 
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Thats what I figured. Chefs here make around 70-90k a year.
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How many hours a week?

Some of them are insane. A friend of mine worked at a golf course for 100+ hours.
 
Seems to me, a good cook is the best asset to any restaurant/club, etc., and should be paid much more....If the food is good, the customers will keep coming in.....I met a lot of chefs at a golf course I worked at in N.C., who did ice sculpturing, and it was amazing!
 
I'm not surprised.

Some people think they're creating a great future for themselves only to find out they have to work a lot more and harder to earn less money. ;)
 
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