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Cooks, Private Household vs Chefs and Head Cooks

Side-by-side · O*NET · BLS · AI-exposure research · Anthropic Economic Index

A factual, source-backed comparison of Cooks, Private Household and Chefs and Head Cooks on the dimensions both occupations carry. Every figure is a position within an independent published dataset — not a verdict on which job is better, safer, or more “future-proof.”

Cooks, Private Household Chefs and Head Cooks
Median pay · BLS OEWS
$44,530
$60,990
Employment · BLS OEWS
900
182,320
AI exposure (percentile) · task overlap, not automation
83rd pct
51st pct

At a glance

Dimension Cooks, Private Household Chefs and Head Cooks
Median pay $44,530 $60,990
Employment 900 182,320
Employment outlook (2024–34) · BLS projection About average (+5.1%) Growing fast (+7.1%)
Annual openings · BLS projection 5,300 24,400
Typical education · O*NET Most occupations in this zone require training in vocational schools, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree. Most occupations in this zone require training in vocational schools, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree.
AI exposure · published exposure studies High · 83rd pct Moderate · 51st pct
Global GenAI gradient · ILO ISCO-08 · via crosswalk 29th pct · 18% of tasks 47th pct · 25% of tasks
Observed AI use · Anthropic Economic Index Automation-leaning (50.0%) Automation-leaning (38.9%)
Mostly remote-capable · Dingel–Neiman Yes No

Pay and employment are BLS OEWS estimates; outlook and openings are BLS 2024–2034 projections; AI exposure and observed-use figures come from separate research and reflect exposure and usage, not predictions that either job will disappear. Compare like with like.

Skills

Shared: Customer and Personal Service, Food Production, Near Vision, Critical Thinking, Fluency of Ideas, Problem Sensitivity, Service Orientation, Administration and Management, Oral Expression, Deductive Reasoning, Information Ordering, Reading Comprehension, Active Listening, Speaking, Monitoring, Social Perceptiveness, Complex Problem Solving, Judgment and Decision Making, Time Management, Production and Processing, Mathematics, Oral Comprehension, Written Comprehension, Originality, Inductive Reasoning, Category Flexibility, Selective Attention, Speech Recognition, Active Learning, Coordination, Management of Material Resources, English Language.

Specific to Cooks, Private Household

  • Sales and Marketing
  • Manual Dexterity
  • Finger Dexterity
  • Arm-Hand Steadiness
  • Trunk Strength
  • Writing
  • Written Expression
  • Multilimb Coordination

Specific to Chefs and Head Cooks

  • Management of Personnel Resources
  • Speech Clarity
  • Personnel and Human Resources
  • Instructing
  • Education and Training
  • Learning Strategies
  • Quality Control Analysis
  • Visualization

Knowledge, skills & abilities O*NET rates as important for each occupation. “Shared” are common to both; the columns list what is distinctive to each (top by the order O*NET surfaces).

Tools & technology

Shared: Web page creation and editing software , Data base user interface and query software , Electronic mail software .

Specific to Cooks, Private Household

Specific to Chefs and Head Cooks

Full profiles

This page is a summary. See the complete source-backed profile for Cooks, Private Household or Chefs and Head Cooks — tasks, the full skill graph, tools, work context, preparation, wages by percentile, industries, AI exposure and the AI work map.

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Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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Singulariki. "Cooks, Private Household vs Chefs and Head Cooks." Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Built from O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; BLS Employment Projections 2024–2034; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); Microsoft “Working with AI” working-with-ai; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans; ILO / Gmyrek et al. GenAI exposure gradient 2025; IBS O*NET-SOC ↔ ISCO-08 occupation crosswalk 2022; Frey & Osborne (2013) frey-osborne-automation; Dingel & Neiman (2020) dingel-neiman-workathome. Accessed June 7, 2026. https://singulariki.com/compare/cooks-private-household-vs-chefs-and-head-cooks

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Singulariki. (2026). Cooks, Private Household vs Chefs and Head Cooks. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/compare/cooks-private-household-vs-chefs-and-head-cooks

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