Yellow fever outbreaks in the United States shaped American history and influenced important national decisions. In the 1780s, yellow fever outbreaks in Philadelphia were responsible for killing one tenth of the city's population.
The average salary for an executive chef here is $71,666, according to a recent salary survey by StarChefs.com. The national average is $75,596, according to estimates by the online industry magazine. Locally, the range for line cooks is somewhere between $12 to $15 an hour, chefs and restaurateurs say.
These chefs made a mean annual wage of $31,080, according to the BLS, with the potential to make $45,120 or more in the top 10 percent of earners. The lowest 10 percent made $18,250 or less. Sometimes trained culinary chefs, particularly at the start of their careers, may work in lower-ranked kitchen jobs.