First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers in the United States earn a median of $44,080 a year. Pay starts near $29,940. The national 90th percentile is $65,570. This page does not publish a state top-of-range figure.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers, SOC 35-1012). Employment 1,223,240. Last checked 22 September 2026. National percentiles via the BLS OEWS release as republished on O*NET OnLine wage tables.
Wages — U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2025 (First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers). Entry is the national 10th percentile. The top chip is the national 90th percentile, not a state. The middle half of workers earns $35,980 to $54,570. Hourly equivalents: $14.40, $21.19, and $31.52. O*NET respondents most often said a high school diploma or equivalent is required (70 percent). That is an employer survey, not a license. The marker on the exposure bar is PayCrunch editorial context, not a BLS statistic. Updated 22 September 2026.
Supervise food preparation and serving workers. Train the station, assign the work, resolve the complaint, and present the bill.
AI tools that fit Food Service Supervisor work September 2026
A short list of general tools. This is not a sponsored placement, not a weekly crawl, and not a product review with prices. Use whatever your employer already allows.
A general assistant for plain-language notes.
How a Food Service Supervisor uses it: Turn a station miss into steps a new cook can follow, then match them to the kitchen's own sheet.
AI inside Excel and Outlook.
How a Food Service Supervisor uses it: Summarize a week of late tickets or waste notes before a pre-shift.
Google's assistant in Search and Workspace.
How a Food Service Supervisor uses it: Check a published food-safety step only from a source you can name, not from a guess.
Food service supervisor: the station, the shift, and SOC 35-1012
First-line supervisors of food preparation and serving workers are SOC 35-1012. The locked chips are entry $29,940, median $44,080, and a national 90th percentile of $65,570. BLS counted 1,223,240 wage-and-salary workers in this occupation in May 2025. The maitre-d page on this site is a PayCrunch estimate that names this SOC. It is not this wage. The food-service-manager page is a different occupation.
Where the national band sits
The middle half earns $35,980 to $54,570. The step from the median $44,080 to the national 90th percentile $65,570 is $21,490 a year. Opening and closing the shift, training, and the complaint log are the work inside that step. This page does not invent a state median.
What the shift actually checks
A station list names who is on it and what is eighty-sixed. A complaint without the table and the item is not a complaint you can fix. Cash at the end of the shift still has to match a reason.
Outlook
O*NET reports projected growth for 2024–2034 as faster than average (5 to 6 percent). O*NET projects about 183,900 openings a year over 2024–2034. Faster than average is not a raise.
Locked wage chips on this page: entry $29,940, median $44,080, national 90th percentile $65,570. SOC 35-1012. If a sentence disagrees with those three figures, the figures win.
How to do the work that sits inside this pay band
These steps stay inside the published national range. They are not a promise that you will be paid the 90th percentile.
A full host stand does not cook the ticket.
Turn this pre-shift note into a station list. Do not add a person I did not name.A verbal fix disappears at the next shift.
Rewrite this coaching note so it names the missed step and the result. Do not invent a recipe I did not paste.A story without the dish cannot be fixed.
Turn this complaint into three lines: item, what we did, what is still open. Do not add a comp I did not paste.Careers related to Food Service Supervisor
Similar pay, same field
- Customer Service Representative $44,770
- Office Clerk $45,010
- Line Cook $37,390
- Waiter Waitress $35,230
Where this can lead
- Food Service Manager $69,390
- Office Supervisor $69,500
Wages in this list are the national medians printed on those pages. Every new page in this batch uses BLS OEWS May 2025. The step from this median to the national 90th percentile is $21,490.
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Paste only facts you already have: a count, a date, a step, a file name. If the draft adds a number, a policy, or a product you did not provide, delete it.
Do not paste account numbers, full customer records, patient information, or anything your employer has told you to keep inside its own system.
TODO: PC_GEAR is not filled in this batch. No product links and no ASINs until a reviewed list exists. Do not invent ASINs.
TODO: state-wage table is not filled in this batch. The chips above are national OEWS May 2025 percentiles only. State medians are not estimated here.
Sources
- BLS OEWS — First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers (SOC 35-1012)
- O*NET OnLine summary for 35-1012.00 (2025 wages and 2024–2034 outlook category)
- Salary (10th, 25th, median, 75th, 90th) — national BLS OEWS May 2025.
- Employment — national OEWS May 2025 wage-and-salary employment, 1,223,240.
- Outlook — O*NET reports projected growth for 2024–2034 as faster than average (5 to 6 percent). Projected openings: about 183,900 a year.
- Not on this page — state wages, metro wages, and product recommendations.
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