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Pastry Chefs vs First-Line Food Prep Supervisors

Compare Pastry Chefs and First-Line Food Prep Supervisors side by side: median pay, job outlook, AI exposure, education, and top skills. Pastry Chefs pays about $18k more.

Pastry Chefs

Median pay$62k
OutlookGrowing fast
AI exposureLow 25%, modeled
EducationPostsecondary cert
MonitoringSpeakingCritical ThinkingActive ListeningReading Comprehension

First-Line Food Prep Supervisors

Median pay$44k
OutlookGrowing fast
AI exposureLow 14%, modeled
EducationHigh school
SpeakingMonitoringActive ListeningReading ComprehensionCritical Thinking
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Pay and outlook: BLS (OEWS 2025, Employment Projections 2024-2034). Skills: O*NET 30.3. AI exposure is a modeled estimate. How we model AI exposure.