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What pastry chefs make
Pastry chef
$48,000
Pastry cook
$33,000
Executive pastry chef
$68,000
Job Bank's national median is $23 an hour, about $48,000 a year full time. That is well above the $18 median for cooks. Quebec pays the highest median at about $24 an hour, the Maritimes the lowest at about $19.