Food Service Worker
Impact: Direct
Prepares and serves food, cleans facilities, and assists customers in various food service settings such as cafeterias, hospitals, or schools. Ensures food safety and hygiene standards are met.
What the day looks like
- People interaction
- Extensive
- Team vs solo
- Team-oriented
- Client facing
- Always
- Impact visibility
- High
- Travel
- None
- Schedule flexibility
- Rigid
- Remote work
- On-site Only
- Typical work hours
- 40
- Stress level
- Moderate
At a glance
- Median salary
- $30,000
- Entry-level
- $25,000
- Senior
- $38,000
- Growth by 2033
- 0.05
- Demand
- Stable
- Freelance potential
- Low
- Salary growth potential
- Low
- Typical student debt
- $0 - $5,000
Skills you'll use
Hard skills
- Food Preparation
- Sanitation
- Inventory Management
Soft skills
- Customer Service
- Teamwork
- Attention to Detail
Technical complexity: Low
How to get there
- Minimum education
- High School Diploma or GED
- Licensing
- No
- Years to mid-career
- 3
- Years to senior
- 7
- Career switching
- Easy
Where this career leads
How people arrive here
Where you can go from here
Typical progression
- Cook, Supervisor, Food Service Manager
Future outlook
- Automation probability
- 0.75
- AI disruption risk
- Low
- Demand trend
- Stable
How people feel about it
- Overall satisfaction
- 3.5/10
- Meaning
- 3.5/10
- Work-life balance
- 3.5/10
- Prestige
- 3/10
- Social perception
- Moderate