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Cooks, Restaurant
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.
What a cook, restaurant does
Become a cook, restaurant
If you enjoy doing these activities, you might make a good cook, restaurant
- Keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements.
- Talking to others.
- Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.
Discover what you could earn in Washington
- Average hourly rate is $26 per hour with an average salary of $42,700 per year.
- Half of workers earn between $20 and $28 per hour.
- Half of workers earn an annual salary between $6,300 and $36,800 per year.
- 38% of individuals in this occupation have been employed in every quarter of the past year.
Part-time
- The average hourly rate for part-time workers is $25 per hour with an average salary of $26,900 per year.
Cook, Restaurant job outlook
- There are 30,197 workers in this occupation in Washington.
- There are 6,123 openings per year in this occupation in Washington.
Multiple Jobs
- 9% of individuals in this occupation worked for more than one employer.
- 34% of individuals in this occupation held a position in another.