Food Preparation and Serving Related Workers, All Other

At a $35,840 midpoint, Food Preparation and Serving Related Workers, All Other sits 28% under the $50,020 national figure. The shortfall is $1,181 a month, which is roughly the size of a rent difference between metros — worth checking before the job is the thing you blame.

Employment stands at 84,630. Food Preparation and Serving Related Workers, All Other is common enough to be recruited for continuously and specific enough that the experience travels — the combination that makes changing employer a working pay rise.

These roles are the entry point to the whole food sector and suit people who want work that starts this week and teaches the operation from the inside.

How long it takes to become one of the 84,630 people doing this is not something we have a source for. BLS counts and pays them; it does not record how they got there, and we would rather say so than guess.

$8,680 separates the bottom quarter at $31,200 from the top quarter at $39,880, a ratio of 1.3x. In a band that tight, moving up inside Food Preparation and Serving Related Workers, All Other pays less than moving out of it would.

Under $31,200 is where a quarter of this field sits, $18,820 beneath the $50,020 a typical American job pays. The risk in Food Preparation and Serving Related Workers, All Other is not the average outcome, it is how long you might spend in the bottom quarter before leaving it.

Avoid it if you need a path upward that does not depend entirely on one manager deciding to promote you.

There is no failure rate on this page because there is nothing honest to divide by. BLS counted 84,630 people employed as Food Preparation and Serving Related Workers, All Other; it did not count the people who trained for it and are doing something else, and a rate built without that denominator would be a number we made up.

A 1.3x spread means the top quarter of Food Preparation and Serving Related Workers, All Other is not doing a different job from the bottom quarter, just a slightly better-paid version of the same one. Between $31,200 and $39,880 is the whole of the negotiation.

In cash terms the middle half of Food Preparation and Serving Related Workers, All Other runs $31,200 to $39,880 — $8,680 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $35,840.

Between $31,200 and $39,880 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $35,840. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $4,040; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $8,680.

There is $4,640 between $31,200 and $35,840, and $4,040 between $35,840 and $39,880. The lower half of the range is marginally the longer one — worth knowing if you would be entering Food Preparation and Serving Related Workers, All Other at the bottom of it.

On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for Food Preparation and Serving Related Workers, All Other is $17.23 an hour. The quarters sit at $15.00 and $19.17, and the all-occupation midpoint at $24.04.