The money you earn as a chef varies greatly from one postion to another, depending on what your job is, and where you are working. The median hourly earnings for chefs, and head chefs was $14.75 an hour, or about $30,000 a year.

Within the next 5-10 years, job avaliability as a chef should be plentiful. There is going to be a big need to replace the number of people that are going to be leaving the career.