Chef Salary Canada

Average Canadian Chef's Salary :: Chefs' Wages in Canada

The table below details the hourly wages for Chefs. The Canadian national occupation classification code (NOC) for this employment is 6241.

Job titles and exact duties vary in this occupation and examples of some job titles are: chef, chef de partie, head chef, sous-chef, assistant chef and pastry chef.

The pay information below has been split into rough bands as follows:
  • Low pay: The bottom 10 percent of workers earn this.
  • High pay: The top 10 percent of workers earn this.
  • Average pay: The average wage in this sector after removing the bottom 10 percent and the top 10 percent of workers. Average pay is then calculated on the remaining 80 percent of workers' wages.
According to the latest figures, the highest hourly average wages are earned in Vancouver / Lower Mainland Southwest, British Columbia at $17.47 per hour and the lowest average wages are earned in Fredericton, New Brunswick at $12.84 per hour.

A typical full-time annual salary for this occupation is in the region of $30,000 - $40,000.

The largest sector of employment for chefs is accommodation and food services. The average weekly earnings for the accommodation and food services as a whole were $353.45 in January 2012, an increase of 1.5% on the previous year. Assuming an average working week of 36 hours, hourly average earnings in this sector for January 2012 were $9.81.

Average Hourly Wages for Chefs in Canada

Location Low Wage
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per hr
Average
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High Wage
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per hr

Year
Calgary / Banff / Jasper / Rocky Mountain House - Alberta 11.68 17.35 30.98 2011
Edmonton - Alberta 9.00 16.78 33.00 2011
Vancouver / Lower Mainland Southwest - British Columbia 10.75 17.47 25.11 2011
Winnipeg - Manitoba 10.50 16.28 25.37 2011
Fredericton - New Brunswick 9.00 12.84 18.96 2010
Halifax - Nova Scotia 12.00 17.00 36.00 2010
Toronto - Ontario 10.50 15.94 23.47 2010
Ottawa - Ontario 11.00 16.26 23.30 2010
London / Woodstock - Ontario 10.25 15.07 20.36 2010
Kitchener / Waterloo / Barrie / Guelph - Ontario 11.00 15.64 22.57 2010
Prince Edward Island 9.55 15.45 25.45 2011
Montreal - Quebec 11.00 15.25 23.00 2008
Saskatoon and Rural West - Saskatchewan 11.80 16.50 22.30 2010