In the chef industry, a chef technical level of high and low, directly determines the level of its salary and treatment, but also a direct reflection of its status. Chef is the pillar of the hotel business, the success of the hotel can not be separated from the excellent chef, therefore, the employer without exception attaches great importance to the loss of chef, but also attaches great importance to the welfare of the chef. In Hong Kong, Macao and other places, the chef's monthly salary reached an average of 15,000; in the north of Guangzhou and other developed cities, the chef's monthly salary averaged about 7500; even in Chengdu, Xi'an and other places, the chef's average salary can reach about 5500.

On top of the ordinary chef, there are different levels of senior chef, like chef, chef de cuisine, chef de cuisine and other senior chef, its salary level is often more than 10,000 per month, or even hundreds of thousands of dollars to millions of annual salary, to become an unattainable high-income technical personnel.