Also called: Assistant Food Stylist
Helps a food stylist shop for, prep, and arrange food for photo and video shoots.
A food stylist assistant shops for 20 perfect lemons, cooks backup burgers, uses tweezers to place sesame seeds, and keeps the set kitchen running.
Estimate; usually freelance day rates.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Certificate, about 1 year after high school. Culinary training helps; most learn by assisting.
Ways in: On-the-job training, Trade school. Training cost: Get paid while you train.
Majors to look at: Culinary Arts, Photography.
Growing about average. Steady with food advertising and media.
Medium risk in 5 years, high in 10. AI-made product images cut the number of shoots, and assistant jobs shrink first.
Classes: Culinary arts CTE, Art, Photography.
Official data: O*NET occupation 27-1029.
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