Salary survey fans flames of chef crisis

Hospitality sector will struggle to hire top talent until chefs’ wages issue is addressed

The salaries offered to chefs in Ireland may be rising in line with the growth in the restaurant sector, but they remain well short of the average industrial wage.

Our most recent salary survey found that while chef pay rates are again going up, 75 per cent of all chefs are still falling short of the average industrial wage of €36,000 per annum.

Excel Recruitment’s 2018 Salary Survey found that a chef de ...