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Cooks, Restaurant

SOC 35-2014 · 2024-2034

Prepare, season, and cook dishes such as soups, meats, vegetables, or desserts in restaurants. May order supplies, keep records and accounts, price items on menu, or plan menu.

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

The job this trains for

Typical pay in California
$46,017per year
Projected openings
271,050
Projected change
+18.5%
Usually needs
No formal educational credential

Bright Outlook — a U.S. Department of Labor designation
Rapid Growth · Numerous Job Openings

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. Speaking
  2. Monitoring
  3. Critical Thinking
  4. Time Management
  5. Active Listening
  6. Reading Comprehension

Pay by region

RegionTypical pay in CaliforniaProjected openings
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara MSA (San Benito and Santa Clara Counties)$48,29515,610
Napa MSA (Napa County)$47,5852,530
San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City MD (San Francisco and San Mateo Counties)$46,51723,370
Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley MD (Alameda and Contra Costa Counties)$46,42017,650
San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad MSA (San Diego County)$46,32130,310
Santa Rosa-Petaluma MSA (Sonoma County)$46,3004,490
San Rafael MD (Marin County)$46,2222,570
Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine MD (Orange County)$46,06731,660
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD (Los Angeles County)$45,82284,380
Vallejo MSA (Solano County)$45,0662,230
Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom MSA (El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo Counties)$44,84015,580
Santa Maria-Santa Barbara MSA (Santa Barbara County)$44,5524,640
Eastern Sierra-Mother Lode Region (Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Inyo, Mariposa, Mono, and Tuolumne Counties)$44,2951,660
Santa Cruz-Watsonville MSA (Santa Cruz County)$43,6672,200
San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles MSA (San Luis Obispo County)$43,4923,240
North Valley-Northern Mountains Region (Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Plumas, Sierra, Siskiyou, Tehama, and Trinity Counties)$43,3381,920
North Coast Region (Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, and Mendocino Counties)$43,1742,080
Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura MSA (Ventura County)$40,4176,450
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario MSA (Riverside and San Bernardino Counties)$39,69731,810
Yuba City MSA (Sutter and Yuba Counties)$39,502930
Stockton-Lodi MSA (San Joaquin County)$39,4713,370
El Centro MSA (Imperial County)$39,317690
Hanford-Corcoran MSA (Kings County)$39,224550
Chico MSA (Butte County)$39,1011,290
Visalia MSA (Tulare County)$39,0501,930
Redding MSA (Shasta County)$38,9261,060
Merced MSA (Merced County)$38,813960
Modesto MSA (Stanislaus County)$38,8132,890
Bakersfield-Delano MSA (Kern County)$38,7004,540
Fresno MSA (Fresno and Madera Counties)$38,7005,820

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, Short Order$44,01743,610-2.3%
Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$47,56551,210+9.9%
Food Preparation Workers$40,347195,850+1%
Chefs and Head Cooks$66,13443,670+11%
Bakers$44,10452,930+8.8%
Cooks, Fast Food$43,115159,630-10.3%

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