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What chefs and cooks make
Sous chef
$48,000
Line cook
$34,000
Executive chef
$90,000
Job Bank's national median for chefs works out to about $48,000 a year; for cooks it is about $37,000. Hotel and institutional kitchens (hospitals, universities, mines) pay better and more predictably than restaurants. Executive chefs at large hotels can pass $100,000.