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.
Restaurant sous-chefs averaged $39,478 per year, while their country club colleagues earned $40,846. For pastry chefs, restaurants paid $43,123 per year. Hotels again were in the mid-range at $46,547, while country clubs paid an average of $61,611 per year.