Also called: Private Yacht Chef
Cooks restaurant-level meals for yacht owners and guests at sea.
Yacht chefs plan menus around guests' tastes and allergies, provision in foreign ports, and plate five-star dinners in a small galley while the boat rolls.
Yacht crew typically get free room and food aboard, plus tips that can add thousands per charter, so take-home value is higher than the salary suggests. Fort Lauderdale is the US hub.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Certificate, about 4 years after high school. Culinary school and fine-dining experience, plus basic STCW safety training.
Ways in: Trade school, On-the-job training. Training cost: Under $15k.
Majors to look at: Culinary Arts (trade school).
Growing faster than average. No separate BLS projection; estimate based on related occupations.
Low risk for 10 years. Personalized five-star cooking for guests, provisioned in foreign ports, stays a creative human job.
Classes: Culinary arts CTE class, Health and nutrition, Spanish, French or Italian.
Official data: O*NET occupation 35-1011.
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