{"id":459390,"date":"2022-06-07T21:25:40","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T18:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/chef-salaries-rising-amid-labor-shortage-demand-to-dine-out\/"},"modified":"2022-06-07T21:25:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T18:25:40","slug":"chef-salaries-rising-amid-labor-shortage-demand-to-dine-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/chef-salaries-rising-amid-labor-shortage-demand-to-dine-out\/","title":{"rendered":"#Chef salaries rising amid labor shortage, demand to dine out"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3f7b047cfe0\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3f7b047cfe0\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/chef-salaries-rising-amid-labor-shortage-demand-to-dine-out\/#%E2%80%9CChef_salaries_rising_amid_labor_shortage_demand_to_dine_out%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Chef salaries rising amid labor shortage, demand to dine out&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CChef_salaries_rising_amid_labor_shortage_demand_to_dine_out%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Chef salaries rising amid labor shortage, demand to dine out&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The demand for experienced restaurant staff has put salaries on a fast boil \u2013 with pay skyrocketing as much as 75% and one recently hired chef scoring a $400,000 deal, Side Dish can report.<\/p>\n<p>The salaries are soaring thanks in large part to a labor shortage and rising demand to dine out after pandemic lockdowns, according to interviews with chefs, restaurant consultants and headhunters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there is a new standard,\u201d said Alfred Ehrlich, a chef turned executive search\/personnel consultant who heads Kitchen Maestro. \u201cThe people I represent are earning 20 to 75 percent more than normal. The pendulum swings one way or the other, and labor has the upper hand now \u2014 especially for highly skilled chefs.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Top New York chefs can earn $300,000, while those in the Hamptons can earn $160,000, he said, adding that signed NDAs prevent him from divulging details of the deals. A chef he recently placed in Miami got a whopping $400,000 to run the kitchen, he boasted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it\u2019s the season and a restaurant wants to open, they have to pay. They can\u2019t afford not to or they will shut down,\u201d Ehrlich said.<\/p>\n<p>Don Evans, a restaurant consultant known as the chef whisperer who is helping to produce Taste of Summer \u2013 six Hamptons food events with more than 70 participating restaurants \u2013 said there has never been a higher demand for skilled chefs.<\/p>\n<p>Restaurants are poaching the top toques by offering unprecedented salaries and perks, and everyone down the line \u2013 from line cooks to dishwashers \u2013 also benefits, he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStaffing in New York and the Hamptons is acute for all restaurants, and that\u2019s led to unprecedented offers to chefs that bear no relationship to the volume of the restaurant. There just aren\u2019t enough qualified, talented chefs to fill these positions,\u201d Evans said.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>The lofty pay is being dished out even as restaurateurs are seeing their profits squeezed by decades-high inflation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s crazy as the No. 1\u00a0 story for restaurants is inflation,\u201d Ehrlich said. \u201cBut on the other hand, you can only charge as much as your demographic will pay. Lots of places can\u2019t increase their prices or they will lose customers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chef salaries were rising even before the pandemic, according to the last stats released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in 2019, which found that chefs and head cooks\u2019 salaries were up 8% year over year for an average salary of $56,310 in 2018.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But now, experienced chefs who were earning $117,000 a year can pull in $165,000 \u2013 and even line cooks were seeing their hourly rate rise to $27 an hour from $17.50 \u2013 especially in seasonal hotspots like the Hamptons, according to Ehrlich.<\/p>\n<p>The higher salaries can also come with perks like signing bonuses, and housing and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a> allowances, Ehrlich added, since chefs with name recognition can raise restaurant profiles \u2014 and revenues \u2014 while drawing in diners.<\/p>\n<p>The staff shortages were exacerbated by pandemic lockdowns, causing many restaurant workers to seek careers in other fields, one prominent East End chef said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/drew-hiatt-02.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Chef Drew Hiatt\" class=\"wp-image-22563252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/drew-hiatt-02.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/drew-hiatt-02.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/drew-hiatt-02.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Chef Drew HIatt says staff shortages were exacerbated by pandemic lockdowns, causing many restaurant workers to seek careers in other fields.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Edmund J Coppa<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/drew-hiatt-01.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Drew Hiatt\" class=\"wp-image-22564193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/drew-hiatt-01.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/drew-hiatt-01.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/drew-hiatt-01.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Hiatt is now executive chef at the revamped Pridwin Hotel<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Edmund J Coppa<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI know around 37% of the hospitality workforce found other jobs due to COVID and some of them didn\u2019t have proper papers, couldn\u2019t get unemployment, so they went to other jobs like construction or landscaping where at least in the Hamptons people are still having that work done,\u201d said the chef, Drew Hiatt, now executive chef at the revamped Pridwin Hotel. \u201cBut even US citizens found they didn\u2019t have work so they paid for schooling, got certified and are now doing other things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An industry insider put it more bluntly: \u201cRich people always need their grass cut whether there\u2019s a pandemic or not.\u201d\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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