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How people get into First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers

$45,590 typical pay · $57,850 top quarter

About 1,828 of these jobs around here. Usually asks for a high school diploma or ged.

Growing here This kind of work is projected to grow around here, so the opening you take is unlikely to be the last one.

What it takes to do this work

No state licence that we can see, but employers commonly ask for ServSafe Food Protection Manager. That is an employer preference rather than a legal gate, so some will hire and train instead.

ServSafe Food Protection Manager
Issued by National Restaurant Association. About 1 week (16 hours). Training listed at $125 to $300.

The jobs people hold first

These are the jobs people hold before moving into this one. Doing one of them is not the only way in, and it is not a requirement. It is the route the data can actually see.

Work people come fromTypical pay Step upEvidence
Fast Food and Counter Workers
No licence we can see
I do this now →
$29,040 +$16,550 Named career step
Waiters and Waitresses
No licence we can see
I do this now →
$29,050 +$16,540 Named career step
Food Preparation Workers
No licence we can see
I do this now →
$30,490 +$15,100 Named career step
Food Servers, Nonrestaurant
No licence we can see
I do this now →
$31,960 +$13,630 Named career step
Bartenders
No licence we can see
I do this now →
$22,880 +$22,710 Named career step
Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers
No licence we can see
I do this now →
$28,110 +$17,480 Named career step
Cashiers
No licence we can see
I do this now →
$29,890 +$15,700 Named career step
Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop
No licence we can see
I do this now →
$27,470 +$18,120 Named career step

Named career step Lightcast lists this as a career step from your kind of work, based on the skills the two jobs share and what local employers hire for. It is the strongest signal we have, though it is not a record of individual people moving.

We keep those labels apart because they are different strength claims, and none of them means we watched individual people make the move.

Routes that already pay more than first-line supervisors of food preparation and serving workers are left out, because those are side moves rather than ways in. So are routes needing more schooling than you told us about.

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