# Cooks and Food Preparation Workers

> SOC minor group 35-2000 within Food Preparation and Serving Related Occupations — 7 detailed occupations.

- **SOC minor group:** 35-2000
- **Canonical URL:** https://singulariki.com/occupation-groups/cooks-and-food-preparation-workers
- **Frame:** "AI exposure" means task overlap, not jobs lost. Figures below are aggregates over the group's member occupations, each traced to a named public dataset.

## Scale & pay

- **Employment (BLS OEWS, May 2024):** 3,632,300.
- **Median wage:** $36,210.
- **Projected growth (BLS 2024–34):** 2.7%.
- **Annual openings:** 580.1.

## AI exposure

- **AI task-overlap (mean across member occupations):** 13th percentile (Low) — Eloundou GPT-overlap + Felten AIOE; task overlap, not automation.

## Member occupations

- Cooks, Restaurant (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-35-2014-00) — $36,830; 0th percentile overlap
- Food Preparation Workers (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-35-2021-00) — $34,220; 0th percentile overlap
- Cooks, Fast Food (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-35-2011-00) — $30,160; 0th percentile overlap
- Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-35-2012-00) — $36,450; 0th percentile overlap
- Cooks, Short Order (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-35-2015-00) — $35,620; 0th percentile overlap
- Cooks, All Other (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-35-2019-00) — $36,210
- Cooks, Private Household (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-35-2013-00) — $44,530; 0th percentile overlap

## Sources

- **O*NET** (30.3) — U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development. https://www.onetcenter.org/database.html
- **BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS)** (May 2024) — U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. https://www.bls.gov/oes/
- **BLS Employment Projections** (2024–2034) — U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. https://www.bls.gov/emp/
- **“GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.)** (arXiv 2303.10130) — OpenAI / academic. https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.10130
- **AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE)** (Felten, Raj & Seamans) — academic. https://github.com/AIOE-Data/AIOE

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_Generated from Singulariki's joined dataset; data snapshot 2026-06-02T20:31:11.516731+00:00. https://singulariki.com/occupation-groups/cooks-and-food-preparation-workers_