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12.05Culinary Arts and Related Services

Career paths in this area

⚠⚠⚠ No kitchen job needs a credential to start: restaurant cooks and bakers learn on the job, and a chef needs a high school diploma plus five or more years of experience. ⚠⚠ The pay step is from cook ($37,020 Florida median) to chef or head cook ($58,240), and it takes experience rather than a certificate. Florida's 1,200-hour culinary programme is built from courses named after the jobs (Cook, Restaurant, then Chef/Head Cook), and this page explains what it is worth.

Careers without a path yet

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Bartenders SOC 35-3011
Butchers and Meat Cutters SOC 51-3021
Cooks, All Other SOC 35-2019
Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria SOC 35-2012
Cooks, Private Household SOC 35-2013
First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers SOC 35-1012
Food Scientists and Technologists SOC 19-1012
Slaughterers and Meat Packers SOC 51-3023
Wholesale and Retail Buyers, Except Farm Products SOC 13-1022

Also covered by a career path filed under another field:

Food Service Managers — Hospitality, Restaurant and Event Manager