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.
Median Wages and Benefits. Chefs earned annual median wages of $40,630, according to the 2010 report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The middle half made between $30,540 and $54,350 per year. The top 10 percent earned wages of more than $70,960 per year. And those in the bottom 10 percent earned less than $23,260 annually.