600 live roles · 6 fully remote · freshest first

Cook jobs

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

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What 600 postings say

Computed from the live board on the date of the nightly build · 97 added in the last 7 days · median listing is 19 days old.

Seniority	Live roles	State pay	Posted band
Entry	2	—	—
Untagged (mid)	595	74	$43k–$53k
Senior / lead	3	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 Service32%
Food Safety27%
Line Cooking14%
Catering & Banquet5%
Brewing4%
Customer Service3%
Baking & Pastry2%
Food & Beverage2%

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

Hiring the most right now

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Coople AG20
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Routes into cook

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

Chef → Cook66% readiness

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Quick answers

How many cook jobs are open right now?

Right now there are 600 cook openings on our board, and 97 of them arrived in the last seven days. 6 of them are fully remote (remote cook jobs). The board refreshes every night, so the count moves with the market.

How much do cook jobs pay?

75 of the 600 openings state a salary. Across those, the middle half of posted pay runs from $43k to $53k 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 cook salary page.

What skills do cook postings ask for?

The three skills cook postings name most often are Food Service (32% of postings), Food Safety (27%) and Line Cooking (14%). 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 cook work from an adjacent role?

Yes, and we can tell you from where. 1 measured routes lead into cook work. The closest is from chef: a typical chef profile already covers 66% of what cook 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.