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Chefs and Head Cooks

SOC 35-1011 · 2024-2034

Direct and may participate in the preparation, seasoning, and cooking of salads, soups, fish, meats, vegetables, desserts, or other foods. May plan and price menu items, order supplies, and keep records and accounts.

How the U.S. Department of Labor describes this work. Published in English only.

The job this trains for

Typical pay in California
$66,134per year
Projected openings
43,670
Projected change
+11%
Usually needs
High school diploma or equivalent

Bright Outlook — a U.S. Department of Labor designation
Rapid Growth

The Department's own designation, made from its national projections. It is not this project's assessment and it is not California's: every other figure on this page comes from California's projection, which can point the other way and for some occupations does.

Skills this work uses most

O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, rates how important each of these is to this work, and they are listed in that order, most important first. The ratings themselves are not shown, because the data carries the number without the scale it was measured on. The names are as published, in English.

  1. Coordination
  2. Monitoring
  3. Management of Personnel Resources
  4. Time Management
  5. Social Perceptiveness
  6. Speaking

Pay by region

RegionTypical pay in CaliforniaProjected openings
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara MSA (San Benito and Santa Clara Counties)$80,2691,680
Napa MSA (Napa County)$78,521410
San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City MD (San Francisco and San Mateo Counties)$76,5683,780
Salinas MSA (Monterey County)$75,343560
Santa Maria-Santa Barbara MSA (Santa Barbara County)$74,273640
Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley MD (Alameda and Contra Costa Counties)$73,4702,580
Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine MD (Orange County)$68,8934,330
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD (Los Angeles County)$68,75611,480
San Rafael MD (Marin County)$68,681410
San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad MSA (San Diego County)$68,4523,960
Vallejo MSA (Solano County)$67,650220
Eastern Sierra-Mother Lode Region (Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Inyo, Mariposa, Mono, and Tuolumne Counties)$67,311210
Santa Rosa-Petaluma MSA (Sonoma County)$66,848650
San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles MSA (San Luis Obispo County)$66,426390
Santa Cruz-Watsonville MSA (Santa Cruz County)$66,395240
Fresno MSA (Fresno and Madera Counties)$66,159810
Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura MSA (Ventura County)$65,789640
North Coast Region (Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, and Mendocino Counties)$65,748200
North Valley-Northern Mountains Region (Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Plumas, Sierra, Siskiyou, Tehama, and Trinity Counties)$65,748210
Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom MSA (El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo Counties)$65,7481,780
Bakersfield-Delano MSA (Kern County)$65,079380
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario MSA (Riverside and San Bernardino Counties)$64,4933,390
Stockton-Lodi MSA (San Joaquin County)$64,287300
Hanford-Corcoran MSA (Kings County)$64,09240
Visalia MSA (Tulare County)$63,938140
Merced MSA (Merced County)$63,218100
Modesto MSA (Stanislaus County)$63,218300
Chico MSA (Butte County)$62,343120
Yuba City MSA (Sutter and Yuba Counties)$61,96360
Redding MSA (Shasta County)$58,99180

Similar work

O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, names these as occupations involving work similar to this one — its own reading of the job, not a grouping by code. They keep O*NET's order, and only those California publishes a projection for are shown.

The job this trains forTypical pay in CaliforniaProjected openingsProjected change
Cooks, Restaurant$46,017271,050+18.5%
Cooks, Private HouseholdNot reported6,310+2.4%
Bakers$44,10452,930+8.8%
Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$47,56551,210+9.9%
Cooks, Short Order$44,01743,610-2.3%
Food Service Managers$79,57359,280+10.1%

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