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Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria

SOC 35-2012 · 2024-2034

Prepare and cook large quantities of food for institutions, such as schools, hospitals, or cafeterias.

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

The job this trains for

Typical pay in California
$47,565per year
Projected openings
51,210
Projected change
+9.9%
Usually needs
No formal educational credential

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. Quality Control Analysis
  2. Service Orientation
  3. Speaking
  4. Operations Monitoring
  5. Judgment and Decision Making
  6. Monitoring

Pay by region

RegionTypical pay in CaliforniaProjected openings
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara MSA (San Benito and Santa Clara Counties)$50,3313,130
San Rafael MD (Marin County)$49,501320
San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City MD (San Francisco and San Mateo Counties)$49,4923,450
Hanford-Corcoran MSA (Kings County)$49,28290
Napa MSA (Napa County)$49,272150
Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley MD (Alameda and Contra Costa Counties)$48,9143,080
Santa Maria-Santa Barbara MSA (Santa Barbara County)$48,089670
Santa Cruz-Watsonville MSA (Santa Cruz County)$47,308340
Vallejo MSA (Solano County)$47,020390
Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine MD (Orange County)$46,9773,890
North Valley-Northern Mountains Region (Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Plumas, Sierra, Siskiyou, Tehama, and Trinity Counties)$46,557490
Santa Rosa-Petaluma MSA (Sonoma County)$46,547520
Eastern Sierra-Mother Lode Region (Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Inyo, Mariposa, Mono, and Tuolumne Counties)$46,434410
Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom MSA (El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo Counties)$46,3932,460
San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad MSA (San Diego County)$46,1054,390
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD (Los Angeles County)$45,88910,990
North Coast Region (Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, and Mendocino Counties)$45,549420
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario MSA (Riverside and San Bernardino Counties)$45,4463,850
Merced MSA (Merced County)$45,169240
Modesto MSA (Stanislaus County)$45,169460
San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles MSA (San Luis Obispo County)$44,840300
Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura MSA (Ventura County)$44,593890
Visalia MSA (Tulare County)$43,688380
Stockton-Lodi MSA (San Joaquin County)$43,657510
Redding MSA (Shasta County)$43,359210
Fresno MSA (Fresno and Madera Counties)$43,2151,220
Chico MSA (Butte County)$42,546210
El Centro MSA (Imperial County)$42,248110
Bakersfield-Delano MSA (Kern County)$41,117720
Yuba City MSA (Sutter and Yuba Counties)$39,574170

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, Short Order$44,01743,610-2.3%
Food Preparation Workers$40,347195,850+1%
Cooks, Private HouseholdNot reported6,310+2.4%
Chefs and Head Cooks$66,13443,670+11%
Cooks, Fast Food$43,115159,630-10.3%

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