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.
Regional Pay. Culinary chefs employed in the northeast United States earned the highest salaries, led by New York at an average of nearly $68,000 per year and New Jersey at about $60,500 per year. Chefs in Hawaii, Nevada, California and Florida also earned salaries above the national average.verage Pay. Chefs reported an average yearly income of $46,600 per year and mean wages of $22.40 per hour, according to the May 2011 report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.