Field
Food & hospitality
What is this page & how do I use it?
This is a sector view — every food & hospitality career CareerStar rates, on the same neutral baseline, with field-level stats up top so you can size up the whole field at a glance.
How to use it: the table is ranked best-first. Click any career for its full report, and watch the moat column — 🏰 wide means well-shielded from AI, — means broadly exposed.
Careers
15
Median score
32
Avg growth
+2.1%
Wide moats
3/15
Every food & hospitality career, on a neutral baseline · median pay $34k · click a career for its full report · moat = how shielded from AI (🏰 wide = well-defended, 🛡 narrow = some shelter, — = broadly exposed)
| Career | Rating | Moat | Growth | Pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chefs and head cooks | ★4.5 · 57 | 🏰 Wide | +7.1% | $61k |
| Cooks, restaurant | ★4.0 · 50 | 🛡 Narrow | +14.9% | $37k |
| Cooks, private household | ★3.5 · 44 | 🏰 Wide | +5.1% | $45k |
| Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers | ★3.5 · 43 | 🛡 Narrow | +6.3% | $33k |
| Fast food and counter workers | ★3.0 · 42 | 🏰 Wide | +6.1% | $30k |
| First-line supervisors of food preparation and serving workers | ★3.0 · 41 | 🛡 Narrow | +6% | $42k |
| Bartenders | ★3.0 · 40 | — | +5.9% | $34k |
| Food servers, nonrestaurant | ★2.5 · 32 | — | +3% | $34k |
| Cooks, institution and cafeteria | ★2.5 · 30 | 🛡 Narrow | +2% | $36k |
| Dishwashers | ★2.0 · 26 | 🛡 Narrow | +0.2% | $34k |
| Waiters and waitresses | ★2.0 · 24 | 🛡 Narrow | -0.7% | $34k |
| Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop | ★1.5 · 22 | 🛡 Narrow | -1.5% | $30k |
| Cooks, short order | ★1.5 · 21 | 🛡 Narrow | -5.6% | $36k |
| Food preparation workers | ★1.5 · 21 | 🛡 Narrow | -3.4% | $34k |
| Cooks, fast food | ★1.0 · 16 | 🛡 Narrow | -13.5% | $30k |