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Cooks working in full-service restaurants reported higher average wages than fast-food cooks and short-order cooks, but lower wages than institutional cooks and chefs. As of May 2011, the average hourly wage for a restaurant cook was $11.25. Half of those working in this occupation earned between $8.96 and $12.98 per hour, with the highest-paid 10 percent of all restaurant cooks reporting hourly wages of $15.46 or higher.
Online restaurant-industry magazine StarChefs performs a salary survey each calendar year, recording the previous year's compensation figures. The 2011 survey, reporting 2010 salaries, reported an average income of $79,222 per year for restaurant chef/owners. This was higher than the salary of employee executive chefs, at $74,891, and chefs de cuisine, at $55,120 per year. However, it was down from the figures reported in prior surveys. Chef/owners had earned an average of $85,178 in 2008 and $85,685 in 2009.