Yellow fever outbreaks in the United States shaped American history and influenced important national decisions. In the 1780s, yellow fever outbreaks in Philadelphia were responsible for killing one tenth of the city's population.
The average salary for an executive chef here is $71,666, according to a recent salary survey by StarChefs.com. The national average is $75,596, according to estimates by the online industry magazine. Locally, the range for line cooks is somewhere between $12 to $15 an hour, chefs and restaurateurs say.
Online industry publication StarChefs also tracks salaries through its own chefs' salary survey. Overall, executive chefs in 2010 reported an average income of $74,891 per year. Chefs de cuisine, who are responsible for the kitchen's daily operation when the executive chef isn't around, averaged $55,120 a year.he Bureau of Labor Statistics tracks chefs and head cooks separately from line cooks. The bureau reports an average income of $46,600 per year or $22.40 per hour for chefs as of May 2011.