Pay by country

Chef pay, country by country.

One method for every bar: live ads, medians, the sample behind each number. Annual compares to annual, hourly to hourly — never mixed.

Advertised annual salary

Careerjet ads showing pay · median of advertised ranges · bars £-converted for scale, ECB 2026-08-04 · bars start at zero

Australia

A$80,000/yr ≈ £41,834n=20small sample

Canada

C$59,411/yr ≈ £31,424n=16small sample

Ireland

€36,605/yr ≈ £31,348n=21small sample

Careerjet ads showing pay · median of advertised ranges · bars £-converted for scale, ECB 2026-08-04 · bars start at zero

New Zealand

NZ$31.30/hr ≈ £13.70n=11small sample

£13.50/hr ≈ £13.50n=15small sample

Every bar: Careerjet live ads, one method — typed salary fields honoured and band-validated, URL-deduplicated, MEDIAN of advertised range midpoints, minimum 10 pay-bearing ads. Periods never mixed: annual compares to annual, hourly to hourly. Dubai monthly ads annualise ×12 (calendar arithmetic, no hours assumptions). Cells that fail to fetch are excluded, never guessed.
The £ column uses ECB reference rates via frankfurter.app, 2026-08-04 · AED via the 3.6725/USD peg · a currency conversion, NOT a purchasing-power or cost-of-living comparison.
Occupation matching: mixes commis to head chef — levels are not separated.
Tax and living costs differ wildly — a bigger number abroad is not automatically a better life.

Data refreshed 2026-08-05.

Pay by country

One method for every bar: live ads, medians, the sample behind each number. Annual compares to annual, hourly to hourly — never mixed.

Careerjet ads showing pay · median of advertised ranges · bars £-converted for scale, ECB 2026-08-04 · bars start at zero

Australia

A$80,000/yr ≈ £41,834n=20small sample

Canada

C$59,411/yr ≈ £31,424n=16small sample

Ireland

€36,605/yr ≈ £31,348n=21small sample

Careerjet ads showing pay · median of advertised ranges · bars £-converted for scale, ECB 2026-08-04 · bars start at zero

New Zealand

NZ$31.30/hr ≈ £13.70n=11small sample

£13.50/hr ≈ £13.50n=15small sample

Every bar: Careerjet live ads, one method — typed salary fields honoured and band-validated, URL-deduplicated, MEDIAN of advertised range midpoints, minimum 10 pay-bearing ads. Periods never mixed: annual compares to annual, hourly to hourly. Dubai monthly ads annualise ×12 (calendar arithmetic, no hours assumptions). Cells that fail to fetch are excluded, never guessed.
The £ column uses ECB reference rates via frankfurter.app, 2026-08-04 · AED via the 3.6725/USD peg · a currency conversion, NOT a purchasing-power or cost-of-living comparison.
Occupation matching: mixes commis to head chef — levels are not separated.
Tax and living costs differ wildly — a bigger number abroad is not automatically a better life.

Data refreshed 2026-08-05.