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.
As of May 2011, chefs and head cooks reported an average hourly wage of $22.40 to the BLS. Half of those reporting wages for this occupation earned between $15.19 and $27.37 per hour, and the highest-paid 10 percent reported hourly earnings of $35.61 or more.