Food Service Supervisors
Training and Education
Fast Facts* Recommended Degree Level Certificate or Higher Salary, Typical $29,270 Salary Range Number of Jobs, 2012 817,600 Annual Job Growth Rate 3.0% Job Openings per Year (est.) 24,830
Part-Time Work and Self-Employment
15% of employees work on a part-time basis. 4% of the time, people working as supervisors of food preparation and serving worker are their own boss.
Gives an short introduction to the work of food prep supervisors. Created for the US Dept of Labor.
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Salaries by City
State City / Region Typical Salary Salary Range Job Count % of All Jobs AK Anchorage $30,230 990 0.58% AK Fairbanks $29,360 160 0.44% AL Anniston - Oxford $29,680 460 1.04% AL Auburn - Opelika $23,260 560 1.15% AL Birmingham - Hoover $24,460 4,290 0.88% AL Decatur $27,460 430 0.81% AL Dothan $25,710 470 0.84% AL Florence - Muscle Shoals $24,380 490 0.94% AL Gadsden $25,340 280 0.84% AL Huntsville $28,730 1,310 0.65% AL Mobile $25,020 1,310 0.78% AL Montgomery $25,990 1,200 0.76% AL Tuscaloosa $27,530 920 1.03% AR Fayetteville - Springdale - Rogers $26,660 1,190 0.59% AR Fort Smith $23,640 990 0.88% AR Hot Springs $22,780 340 0.95% AR Jonesboro $28,060 400 0.81% AR Little Rock - North Little Rock - Conway $27,640 2,200 0.66% AR Pine Bluff $23,750 230 0.67% AZ Flagstaff $30,120 540 0.96% AZ Lake Havasu City $ Kingman $23,670 350 0.81% AZ Phoenix - Mesa - Glendale $30,210 12,560 0.73% AZ Prescott $31,520 450 0.85% AZ Tucson $28,550 2,990 0.86% AZ Yuma $25,350 330 0.60% CA Bakersfield - Delano $23,730 1,340 0.49% CA Chico $25,560 470 0.69% CA El Centro $26,550 230 0.44% CA Fresno $24,560 1,970 0.62% CA Hanford - Corcoran $24,870 290 0.77% CA Los Angeles - Long Beach - Glendale (Metro Area) $27,150 22,350 0.58% CA Madera - Chowchilla $23,810 240 0.61% CA Merced $23,600 400 0.67% CA Modesto $24,250 920 0.60% CA Napa $40,560 430 0.68% CA Oakland - Fremont - Hayward (Metro Area) $27,270 5,280 0.54% CA Oxnard - Thousand Oaks - Ventura $26,710 1,840 0.64% CA Redding $24,100 370 0.63% CA Riverside - San Bernardino - Ontario $25,510 8,730 0.75% CA Sacramento - Arden - Arcade - Roseville $27,490 5,070 0.62% CA Salinas $32,050 980 0.63% CA San Diego - Carlsbad - San Marcos $28,500 8,180 0.65% CA San Francisco - San Mateo - Redwood City (Metro Area) $34,400 5,590 0.56% CA San Jose - Sunnyvale - Santa Clara $35,590 4,380 0.49% CA San Luis Obispo - Paso Robles $26,280 690 0.68% CA Santa Ana - Anaheim - Irvine (Metro Area) $29,970 9,640 0.68% CA Santa Barbara - Santa Maria - Goleta $29,660 1,160 0.69% CA Santa Cruz - Watsonville $29,910 610 0.73% CA Santa Rosa - Petaluma $29,800 1,170 0.68% CA Stockton $28,100 1,210 0.62% CA Vallejo - Fairfield $29,790 920 0.76% CA Visalia - Porterville $23,690 790 0.60% CA Yuba City $26,600 290 0.81% CO Boulder $36,920 930 0.58% CO Colorado Springs $31,160 1,690 0.70% CO Denver - Aurora - Broomfield $32,720 7,690 0.62% CO Fort Collins - Loveland $28,860 930 0.70% CO Grand Junction $32,480 330 0.58% CO Greeley $28,980 480 0.60% CO Pueblo $30,480 340 0.62% CT Bridgeport - Stamford - Norwalk $42,110 1,880 0.45% CT Danbury $34,180 470 0.71% CT Hartford - West Hartford - East Hartford $35,520 2,420 0.44% CT New Haven $29,480 1,200 0.44% CT Norwich - New London $32,450 910 0.70% CT Waterbury $30,230 210 0.33% DC Washington - Arlington - Alexandria (Metro Area) $35,040 13,470 0.57% DE Dover $33,260 570 0.97% DE Wilmington (Metro Area) $33,800 2,020 0.63% FL Cape Coral - Fort Myers $30,060 1,530 0.75% FL Crestview - Fort Walton Beach - Destin $27,460 750 1.02% FL Deltona - Daytona Beach - Ormond Beach $33,210 1,580 1.04% FL Fort Lauderdale - Pompano Beach - Deerfield Beach (Metro Area) $31,750 4,110 0.57% FL Gainesville $27,720 680 0.57% FL Jacksonville $28,580 3,920 0.68% FL Lakeland - Winter Haven $29,530 1,060 0.56% FL Miami - Miami Beach - Kendall (Metro Area) $30,590 5,540 0.55% FL Naples - Marco Island $33,640 1,070 0.93% FL North Port - Bradenton - Sarasota $32,980 1,660 0.69% FL Ocala $28,530 610 0.68% FL Orlando - Kissimmee - Sanford $31,380 7,540 0.75% FL Palm Bay - Melbourne - Titusville $28,350 1,210 0.63% FL Palm Coast $36,430 180 0.96% FL Panama City - Lynn Haven - Panama City Beach $28,740 650 0.94% FL Pensacola - Ferry Pass - Brent $28,910 1,230 0.81% FL Port St. Lucie $31,620 810 0.67% FL Punta Gorda $32,250 360 0.92% FL Sebastian - Vero Beach $31,720 230 0.52% FL Tallahassee $27,620 890 0.57% FL Tampa - St. Petersburg - Clearwater $27,990 8,400 0.75% FL West Palm Beach - Boca Raton - Boynton Beach (Metro Area) $36,740 3,410 0.67% GA Albany $27,510 310 0.53% GA Athens - Clarke County $27,950 580 0.75% GA Atlanta - Sandy Springs - Marietta $31,470 13,250 0.59% GA Augusta - Richmond County $28,660 1,260 0.63% GA Brunswick $31,450 330 0.89% GA Columbus $29,800 970 0.89% GA Dalton $27,380 350 0.57% GA Gainesville $26,860 330 0.46% GA Hinesville - Fort Stewart $23,170 120 0.69% GA Macon $27,710 490 0.53% GA Rome $29,130 250 0.70% GA Savannah $32,170 920 0.62% GA Valdosta $25,460 440 0.88% GA Warner Robins $25,290 410 0.74% HI Honolulu $30,230 2,930 0.68% IA Ames $26,240 280 0.70% IA Cedar Rapids $30,790 630 0.46% IA Davenport - Moline - Rock Island $25,230 1,300 0.73% IA Des Moines - West Des Moines $29,820 1,620 0.50% IA Dubuque $25,710 330 0.59% IA Iowa City $26,590 700 0.83% IA Sioux City $25,120 440 0.63% IA Waterloo - Cedar Falls $23,130 540 0.60% ID Boise City - Nampa $25,710 1,650 0.63% ID Coeur d'Alene, ID $23,950 320 0.61% ID Idaho Falls $22,610 400 0.82% ID Lewiston $24,710 170 0.72% ID Pocatello $21,130 170 0.52% IL Bloomington - Normal $28,210 600 0.70% IL Champaign - Urbana $26,600 560 0.59% IL Chicago - Joliet - Naperville (Metro Area) $28,010 17,630 0.48% IL Danville $23,920 150 0.55% IL Decatur $24,220 250 0.50% IL Kankakee - Bradley $28,350 270 0.69% IL Lake County - Kenosha County (Metro Area) $28,500 2,220 0.60% IL Peoria $30,310 680 0.38% IL Rockford $28,310 730 0.52% IL Springfield $33,130 560 0.52% IN Anderson $27,910 340 0.89% IN Bloomington $30,080 620 0.84% IN Columbus $24,730 250 0.56% IN Elkhart - Goshen $28,050 480 0.44% IN Evansville $28,040 1,260 0.73% IN Fort Wayne $28,580 1,430 0.72% IN Gary (Metro Area) $25,040 2,100 0.79% IN Indianapolis - Carmel $30,300 5,490 0.62% IN Kokomo $27,690 280 0.71% IN Lafayette $26,430 660 0.76% IN Michigan City - La Porte $28,790 290 0.71% IN Muncie $23,100 460 1.03% IN South Bend - Mishawaka $26,930 1,200 0.96% IN Terre Haute $29,270 500 0.75% KS Lawrence $21,650 600 1.33% KS Manhattan $24,170 440 0.86% KS Topeka $23,830 700 0.66% KS Wichita $25,350 1,990 0.71% KY Bowling Green $24,970 440 0.76% KY Elizabethtown $26,020 380 0.83% KY Lexington - Fayette $23,800 2,250 0.92% KY Louisville - Jefferson County $28,930 5,160 0.87% KY Owensboro $27,230 370 0.74% LA Alexandria $28,150 410 0.66% LA Baton Rouge $28,360 2,290 0.63% LA Houma - Bayou Cane - Thibodaux $27,770 590 0.64% LA Lafayette $28,520 1,080 0.71% LA Lake Charles $27,160 710 0.81% LA Monroe $26,860 440 0.60% LA New Orleans - Metairie - Kenner $30,410 4,140 0.80% LA Shreveport - Bossier City $26,150 1,360 0.78% MA Barnstable Town $35,190 810 0.84% MA Boston - Cambridge - Quincy (Metro Area) $37,820 9,460 0.55% MA Brockton - Bridgewater - Easton (Metro Area) $34,180 360 0.41% MA Framingham (Metro Area) $32,240 780 0.50% MA Haverhill - North Andover - Amesbury (Metro Area) $35,420 490 0.63% MA Lawrence - Methuen - Salem (Metro Area) $30,970 450 0.76% MA Leominster - Fitchburg - Gardner $35,060 230 0.49% MA Lowell - Billerica - Chelmsford (Metro Area) $35,350 660 0.57% MA New Bedford $25,920 450 0.70% MA Peabody (Metro Area) $35,040 490 0.49% MA Pittsfield $33,530 160 0.48% MA Springfield $30,250 1,970 0.69% MA Taunton - Norton - Raynham (Metro Area) $30,630 300 0.69% MA Worcester $34,670 1,410 0.58% MD Baltimore - Towson $35,250 6,940 0.55% MD Bethesda - Rockville - Frederick (Metro Area) $37,960 2,740 0.49% MD Cumberland $30,940 220 0.61% MD Hagerstown - Martinsburg $26,090 820 0.83% MD Salisbury $32,470 350 0.68% ME Bangor $26,520 440 0.69% ME Lewiston - Auburn $26,290 270 0.56% ME Portland - South Portland - Biddeford $33,190 1,110 0.57% MI Ann Arbor $30,640 1,150 0.59% MI Battle Creek $31,550 480 0.92% MI Bay City $24,830 360 1.07% MI Detroit - Livonia - Dearborn (Metro Area) $26,660 4,890 0.70% MI Flint $27,150 1,050 0.83% MI Grand Rapids - Wyoming $28,040 1,860 0.48% MI Holland - Grand Haven $25,440 790 0.77% MI Jackson $29,220 380 0.74% MI Kalamazoo - Portage $27,220 980 0.76% MI Lansing - East Lansing $28,720 1,490 0.76% MI Monroe $25,910 300 0.80% MI Muskegon - Norton Shores $29,040 430 0.75% MI Niles - Benton Harbor $24,400 390 0.69% MI Saginaw - Saginaw Township North $24,840 550 0.67% MI Warren - Troy - Farmington Hills (Metro Area) $31,660 7,430 0.69% MN Duluth $24,070 950 0.77% MN Mankato - North Mankato $26,530 370 0.77% MN Minneapolis - St. Paul - Bloomington $29,750 8,450 0.48% MN Rochester $27,600 560 0.55% MN St. Cloud $25,850 450 0.46% MO Cape Girardeau - Jackson $23,210 270 0.63% MO Columbia $29,260 520 0.60% MO Jefferson City $26,120 380 0.54% MO Joplin $24,810 450 0.59% MO Kansas City $28,090 6,270 0.65% MO Springfield $23,430 1,360 0.73% MO St. Joseph $19,540 500 0.99% MO St. Louis $27,530 8,500 0.67% MS Gulfport - Biloxi $27,060 970 0.95% MS Hattiesburg $27,900 590 1.04% MS Jackson $26,220 1,680 0.67% MS Pascagoula $27,970 400 0.76% MT Billings $26,380 620 0.76% MT Great Falls $28,030 260 0.75% MT Missoula $32,510 400 0.71% NC Asheville $35,680 1,550 0.92% NC Burlington $30,210 590 1.05% NC Charlotte - Gastonia - Rock Hill $30,770 6,670 0.78% NC Durham - Chapel Hill $30,540 1,960 0.72% NC Fayetteville $27,800 1,420 1.11% NC Goldsboro $31,090 350 0.90% NC Greensboro - High Point $28,930 2,660 0.77% NC Greenville $29,540 670 0.91% NC Hickory - Lenoir - Morganton $28,330 900 0.63% NC Jacksonville $27,280 650 1.49% NC Raleigh - Cary $28,720 4,630 0.90% NC Rocky Mount $23,300 610 1.08% NC Wilmington $32,760 1,330 1.00% NC Winston - Salem $28,810 1,580 0.78% ND Bismarck $32,130 470 0.73% ND Fargo $28,780 880 0.70% ND Grand Forks $30,310 360 0.72% NE Lincoln $33,010 960 0.59% NE Omaha - Council Bluffs $30,080 2,500 0.56% NH Manchester $33,650 460 0.45% NH Nashua (Metro Area) $34,940 650 0.50% NH Portsmouth $34,060 420 0.75% NH Rochester - Dover $32,120 370 0.70% NJ Atlantic City - Hammonton $41,130 1,150 0.85% NJ Camden (Metro Area) $35,110 2,580 0.52% NJ Edison - New Brunswick (Metro Area) $42,170 5,210 0.54% NJ Newark - Union (Metro Area) $34,480 4,620 0.49% NJ Ocean City $36,730 300 0.81% NJ Trenton - Ewing $37,620 710 0.33% NJ Vineland - Millville - Bridgeton $36,390 270 0.47% NM Albuquerque $27,690 2,230 0.61% NM Farmington $23,140 400 0.80% NM Las Cruces $24,110 580 0.87% NM Santa Fe $29,280 450 0.78% NV Carson City $34,580 180 0.69% NV Las Vegas - Paradise $37,110 6,610 0.81% NV Reno - Sparks $31,220 1,100 0.59% NY Albany - Schenectady - Troy $30,700 2,380 0.56% NY Binghamton $28,820 530 0.51% NY Buffalo - Niagara Falls $29,220 3,140 0.59% NY Elmira $30,090 250 0.67% NY Glens Falls $34,090 240 0.45% NY Ithaca $29,140 280 0.58% NY Kingston $36,870 370 0.65% NY Nassau - Suffolk (Metro Area) $35,210 6,250 0.51% NY New York - White Plains - Wayne (Metro Area) $37,710 24,010 0.47% NY Poughkeepsie - Newburgh - Middletown $34,080 1,300 0.54% NY Rochester $29,040 3,090 0.63% NY Syracuse $29,740 1,700 0.57% NY Utica - Rome $30,180 750 0.61% OH Akron $27,910 2,070 0.66% OH Canton - Massillon $24,500 1,190 0.73% OH Cincinnati - Middletown $29,340 6,700 0.68% OH Cleveland - Elyria - Mentor $29,440 5,420 0.55% OH Columbus $30,540 5,600 0.61% OH Dayton $27,860 2,590 0.71% OH Lima $24,760 N/A N/A OH Mansfield $24,580 370 0.74% OH Sandusky $26,580 320 0.89% OH Springfield $23,470 460 0.97% OH Steubenville - Weirton $23,620 300 0.69% OH Toledo $26,500 2,250 0.77% OH Youngstown - Warren - Boardman $26,020 1,530 0.70% OK Lawton $22,020 290 0.70% OK Oklahoma City $25,830 3,850 0.66% OK Tulsa $26,290 3,070 0.74% OR Bend $26,340 560 0.94% OR Corvallis $26,160 230 0.68% OR Eugene - Springfield $30,090 800 0.59% OR Medford $26,110 500 0.68% OR Portland - Vancouver - Hillsboro $26,380 5,640 0.56% OR Salem $31,170 810 0.57% PA Allentown - Bethlehem - Easton $35,450 1,510 0.45% PA Altoona $29,890 350 0.61% PA Erie $28,150 960 0.76% PA Harrisburg - Carlisle $32,290 1,320 0.43% PA Johnstown $26,020 340 0.61% PA Lancaster $30,900 1,300 0.59% PA Lebanon $30,680 250 0.50% PA Philadelphia (Metro Area) $38,670 8,230 0.45% PA Pittsburgh $33,750 6,160 0.55% PA Reading $31,870 830 0.51% PA Scranton - Wilkes - Barre $31,160 1,070 0.43% PA State College $33,340 520 0.79% PA Williamsport $31,770 290 0.54% PA York - Hanover $29,210 1,040 0.59% PR Aguadilla - Isabela - San Sebastian $18,480 300 0.71% PR Fajardo $18,980 140 1.01% PR Guayama $17,960 150 1.11% PR Mayaguez $19,070 260 0.87% PR Ponce $20,370 370 0.70% PR San German - Cabo Rojo $18,580 170 0.95% PR San Juan - Caguas - Guaynabo $21,150 4,120 0.56% PR Yauco $22,490 70 0.62% RI Providence - Fall River - Warwick $35,130 4,280 0.79% SC Anderson $28,130 490 0.84% SC Charleston - North Charleston - Summerville $30,640 2,260 0.78% SC Columbia $28,010 1,940 0.57% SC Florence $24,310 530 0.67% SC Greenville - Mauldin - Easley $29,640 2,150 0.72% SC Myrtle Beach - North Myrtle Beach - Conway $26,140 1,380 1.24% SC Spartanburg $29,540 880 0.76% SC Sumter $27,310 220 0.65% SD Rapid City $31,970 290 0.48% SD Sioux Falls $32,830 600 0.43% TN Chattanooga $25,330 1,770 0.79% TN Clarksville $24,790 690 0.85% TN Cleveland $23,720 200 0.53% TN Jackson $23,440 370 0.63% TN Johnson City $27,180 530 0.68% TN Kingsport - Bristol - Bristol $22,920 780 0.67% TN Knoxville $25,070 2,590 0.79% TN Memphis $26,220 3,100 0.52% TN Morristown $18,580 370 0.82% TN Nashville - Davidson - Murfreesboro - Franklin $28,490 4,270 0.57% TX Abilene $29,630 420 0.67% TX Amarillo $28,170 700 0.63% TX Austin - Round Rock - San Marcos $27,950 7,860 0.97% TX Beaumont - Port Arthur $24,260 1,070 0.68% TX Brownsville - Harlingen $26,920 830 0.66% TX College Station - Bryan $26,560 640 0.69% TX Corpus Christi $26,420 1,550 0.85% TX Dallas - Plano - Irving (Metro Area) $28,610 12,020 0.57% TX El Paso $23,460 2,690 0.98% TX Fort Worth - Arlington (Metro Area) $28,800 6,180 0.70% TX Houston - Sugar Land - Baytown $28,710 15,960 0.60% TX Killeen - Temple - Fort Hood $25,090 1,030 0.81% TX Laredo $27,270 520 0.58% TX Longview $28,400 600 0.61% TX Lubbock $26,340 890 0.71% TX McAllen - Edinburg - Mission $27,120 1,520 0.67% TX Midland $25,120 510 0.67% TX Odessa $29,110 400 0.59% TX San Angelo $26,240 300 0.67% TX San Antonio - New Braunfels $26,810 6,770 0.79% TX Sherman - Denison $22,440 380 0.93% TX Texarkana - Texarkana $27,940 440 0.81% TX Tyler $29,520 730 0.79% TX Victoria $24,610 320 0.63% TX Waco $27,410 840 0.84% TX Wichita Falls $26,290 420 0.75% UT Logan $23,600 350 0.72% UT Ogden - Clearfield $24,200 1,120 0.56% UT Provo - Orem $26,120 900 0.51% UT Salt Lake City $29,030 3,010 0.48% UT St. George $26,210 420 0.88% VA Blacksburg - Christiansburg - Radford $29,960 500 0.78% VA Charlottesville $27,630 690 0.71% VA Danville $28,890 210 0.56% VA Harrisonburg $26,180 420 0.73% VA Lynchburg $29,720 410 0.42% VA Richmond $32,080 3,690 0.62% VA Roanoke $29,910 860 0.58% VA Virginia Beach - Norfolk - Newport News $32,150 5,460 0.76% VA Winchester $25,630 440 0.83% VT Burlington - South Burlington $34,000 620 0.54% WA Bellingham $38,510 400 0.53% WA Bremerton - Silverdale $30,250 470 0.60% WA Kennewick - Pasco - Richland $30,010 630 0.65% WA Longview $30,540 190 0.56% WA Mount Vernon - Anacortes $35,740 220 0.52% WA Olympia $31,290 620 0.66% WA Seattle - Bellevue - Everett (Metro Area) $32,810 6,190 0.44% WA Spokane $28,960 1,410 0.72% WA Tacoma (Metro Area) $40,200 1,330 0.52% WA Wenatchee - East Wenatchee $33,170 210 0.56% WA Yakima $28,920 410 0.52% WI Appleton $26,960 590 0.51% WI Eau Claire $27,760 370 0.48% WI Fond du Lac $24,220 200 0.46% WI Green Bay $28,010 800 0.48% WI Janesville $25,810 420 0.70% WI La Crosse $26,520 310 0.44% WI Madison $33,060 1,760 0.53% WI Milwaukee - Waukesha - West Allis $29,750 3,520 0.44% WI Oshkosh - Neenah $28,480 360 0.40% WI Racine $33,920 360 0.48% WI Sheboygan $28,190 250 0.45% WI Wausau $30,540 330 0.51% WV Charleston $24,380 750 0.52% WV Huntington - Ashland $23,890 930 0.86% WV Morgantown $25,700 440 0.72% WV Parkersburg - Marietta - Vienna $22,770 490 0.73% WV Wheeling $26,960 470 0.72% WY Casper $25,800 380 0.93% WY Cheyenne $24,630 360 0.83%
Area Job Conditions
Jobs for this occupation are most common in Lubbock (Texas), Lawrence (Kansas), and Jacksonville (North Carolina), but are rarer in Anchorage (Alaska), Sheboygan (Wisconsin), and Bridgeport (Connecticut).
Supervisors of food preparation and serving worker are paid comparatively more in Trenton (New Jersey), Tacoma (Washington), and Bridgeport (Connecticut) and comparatively less in Pocatello (Idaho), Dothan (Alabama), and Morgantown (West Virginia).
Career Overview Video About Supervisors Of Food Preparation and Serving Worker