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.
The lowest-paid 10 percent of Chefs in the U.S. earned less than $22,120, while the highest-paid 10 percent earned more than $66,680. Given those statistics, you have a 50 percent chance of making between $30,000 and $52,000 annually as a Chef.