277 live roles · 4 fully remote · freshest first

Chef jobs

Live chef openings from company career pages and remote boards. Apply at the source. What the role pays, across markets and seniority: chef salary.

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What 277 postings say

Computed from the live board on the date of the nightly build · 24 added in the last 7 days · median listing is 30 days old.

Seniority	Live roles	State pay	Posted band
Entry	7	2	—
Untagged (mid)	265	18	$60k–$83k
Senior / lead	5	1	—

Seniority is read from posting titles; roles with no level in the title are counted as mid. Bands cover only postings that state pay, and only where five or more do.

Skills named most

Food Service44%
Food Safety38%
Kitchen Management13%
Catering & Banquet11%
Line Cooking8%
Menu Development6%
Vue6%
Training & Facilitation5%

Share of postings naming each skill, from the posting text itself.

Hiring the most right now

Jobup29
Hellofresh12
Commander, Navy Installations Command7
Le Grand Bellevue5
MSC Cruises4
U.S. Marine Corps3

Routes into chef

The measured pivots that lead here, ranked by how much of the destination a typical origin profile already covers.

Cook → Chef61% readiness

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Quick answers

How many chef jobs are open right now?

Right now there are 277 chef openings on our board, and 24 of them arrived in the last seven days. 4 of them are fully remote. The board refreshes every night, so the count moves with the market.

How much do chef jobs pay?

21 of the 277 openings state a salary. Across those, the middle half of posted pay runs from $60k to $84k a year. We only count postings that state pay, so this is what employers are advertising today, not an estimate. For the fuller picture by seniority and market, see the chef salary page.

What skills do chef postings ask for?

The three skills chef postings name most often are Food Service (44% of postings), Food Safety (38%) and Kitchen Management (13%). Those percentages are simply how many of the postings we read mention each one, so you can see which are near-universal and which are nice to have. Every skill, defined: the glossary.

Can I move into chef work from an adjacent role?

Yes, and we can tell you from where. 1 measured routes lead into chef work. The closest is from cook: a typical cook profile already covers 61% of what chef postings ask for, and the route page lists the exact skills that make up the rest.

Listings backfilled from re-displayable sources (company career pages, remote-job boards, and public-sector postings), freshest first, refreshed with the nightly scrape. Each links out to apply at the original posting; PivotHop does not host applications. Salary shown where the posting states it.