- Based on 91 Jobtrees users who were a Sous Chef in their career, on average, they have 2.68 years of experience and 3 jobs prior to this one. They spend 3.7 years on average in this job building experience and earn $45K per year before moving on.
- 11% of Jobtrees users moved to another job with this same title in their next career step. The most common career steps after Sous Chef are Chef, Executive Chef and Line Cook. While Chef is from the same job family, Food/Beverage, there are other common opportunities outside this discipline that Jobtrees users are taking as shown by Executive Chef, also being a common career path from Sous Chef.
- If you are looking for more ideas on potential career paths from this job, you should also consider Server, Personal Chef and Butcher as they commonly lead to Sous Chef as well. Find more insights below about this specific career path based on our Jobtrees users' experience.
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- The most common career steps to get to Sous Chef are Chef, Executive Chef and Line Cook based on actual career paths reported to Jobtrees.
- Chef, the most common step before Sous Chef, is a more senior role which is common to see in career paths. This is a natural and common career progression as titles aren't synonymous across companies so a more senior title doesn't always mean higher pay and larger scope. For Sous Chef, this is an indication that you should focus more on the scope of the role than the specific title when thinking about building a path to Sous Chef.
- This is a Mid role meaning if you don’t have significant work experience and likely also experience in a closely related field, you need to start more than one or two steps away from this role in planning your path. Consider chef or executive chef as these are the most popular career starting points for Jobtrees users that led to sous chef. For a quicker path to this senior role title, consider looking at smaller companies as they have less layers to get to these more senior titles. The scope of the role and likely the pay though will still likely compare more similarly to a less experienced role title at a larger company. This is partly why you see some unexpected experience level titles leading to this role.
- All of the most common roles leading to Sous Chef are from the job family, Food/Beverage, which shows that in order to get this role you also likely need to have experience in this field first.
- If you are looking for more potential career paths to Sous Chef, you should also consider Server, Manager and Team Lead as they commonly lead to Sous Chef as well.
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- The most common degrees or certifications earned by Jobtrees users on the path to become Sous Chef are Associate Degree In Culinary Arts, Bachelor Of Arts (b.a.) In Physics Education, and Associate Degree. There may be other specific certification requirements to land a job with this role, so please make sure to check local regulations as well.
- Career paths aren't linear with people often returning to a prior role which is what you see with Chef being the most common role to and from Sous Chef. This is common when people move companies where the title is the same as a past one but the scope may be different but also is commonly driven by them choosing to return to a function they fit well with.
- Sous Chef is part of the Food/Beverage job family which has a limited number of unique role types (51) within that discipline. Choosing to pursue a role within this family likely will mean that you will need to look outside of your discipline to find new roles and so should focus on related skills as part of that search.
- Other common titles that have similar job requirements and career paths as Sous Chef are Executive Sous Chef.