Culinary artist vs executive chef

The differences between culinary artists and executive chefs can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. It typically takes 4-6 years to become both a culinary artist and an executive chef. Additionally, an executive chef has an average salary of $59,416, which is higher than the $40,757 average annual salary of a culinary artist.

The top three skills for a culinary artist include dishes, food handling and food preparation. The most important skills for an executive chef are culinary, food preparation, and customer service.

Culinary artist vs executive chef overview

	Culinary Artist	Executive Chef
Yearly salary	$40,757	$59,416
Hourly rate	$19.59	$28.57
Growth rate	15%	15%
Number of jobs	5,981	83,085
Job satisfaction	-	5
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 39%	Associate Degree, 56%
Average age	42	42
Years of experience	6	6

Culinary artist vs executive chef salary

Culinary artists and executive chefs have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Culinary Artist	Executive Chef
Average salary	$40,757	$59,416
Salary range	Between $20,000 And $82,000	Between $40,000 And $87,000
Highest paying City	-	San Francisco, CA
Highest paying state	-	Hawaii
Best paying company	-	Bridgewater Associates
Best paying industry	-	Hospitality

Differences between culinary artist and executive chef education

There are a few differences between a culinary artist and an executive chef in terms of educational background:

	Culinary Artist	Executive Chef
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 39%	Associate Degree, 56%
Most common major	Business	Culinary Arts
Most common college	Boston University	Drexel University

Culinary artist vs executive chef demographics

Here are the differences between culinary artists' and executive chefs' demographics:

	Culinary Artist	Executive Chef
Average age	42	42
Gender ratio	Male, 71.4% Female, 28.6%	Male, 87.5% Female, 12.5%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 10.2% Unknown, 5.3% Hispanic or Latino, 18.7% Asian, 8.4% White, 56.7% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.7%	Black or African American, 10.3% Unknown, 5.3% Hispanic or Latino, 17.0% Asian, 10.8% White, 55.9% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.7%
LGBT Percentage	9%	9%

Differences between culinary artist and executive chef duties and responsibilities

Culinary artist example responsibilities.

Manage inventory and facilitate product orders of the culinary and science departments.
Create dishes to fulfill changing menu requirements on a daily basis.
Instruct cooks in the preparation, cooking, garnishing, and presentation of food.
Coordinate constant clean up in kitchen; operate grills, fryers, and microwaves.
Conceptualize and develop terrain models using Maya and partner with director and animators to correspond and produce effective shots.
Provide model of strong work ethic, assume leadership when in crisis, and professionally handle extremely hectic situations.

Executive chef example responsibilities.

Manage a kitchen of military personal and Japanese civilian chefs.
Cater off-premise events, parties, holiday dinners and seasonal BBQ cookouts.
Own and operate a full charge BBQ catering business from a 30 foot mobile kitchen.
Close high percentage of sales opportunities for large builder and designer accounts with strategic VIP events.
Supervise high volume and VIP catering events to include black tie, charity and outdoor events.
Create systems to control BOH operations including: purchasing, receiving, storage, inventory & food cost tracking.

Culinary artist vs executive chef skills

Common culinary artist skills

Dishes, 34%
Food Handling, 31%
Food Preparation, 29%
Culinary, 4%
Cooking Techniques, 1%
Fine Dining, 1%

Common executive chef skills

Culinary, 14%
Food Preparation, 8%
Customer Service, 6%
Kitchen Operations, 6%
Food Safety, 5%
Food Service, 5%

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