Which pays more, Chef or Personal Trainer?

The median advertised salary for each is in the table above, along with the 25th and 75th percentiles so you can see the spread rather than one number.

Which has more openings?

Both counts are live and computed at the same moment, so the comparison is like for like.

Postings are read from company career systems continuously; the age row shows how old the listings themselves are.

Side by side

Chef vs Personal Trainer

Personal Trainer pays more: a median of $56,000 against $50,000. There is 3.2× more demand for Personal Trainer. Listings for Personal Trainer move faster — median age 32 days against 46.

Comparison

Side by side

Measure	Chef	Personal Trainer	Gap
Open postings	11,802	37,289	-25,487
Posted this week	304	3,317
Median salary	$50,000	$56,000	$-6k
25th percentile	$39.5k	$44k
75th percentile	$62k	$69.5k
Salary disclosed	4.1%	6.0%
Remote share	8.6%	12.9%	-4.3pp
Median age of posting	46d	32d
Open over 60 days	43.0%	45.1%
Visa sponsorship	7.3%	9.7%

Pay

Pay distribution

Chef

$23k$87k

Personal Trainer

$25k$97k

Freshness

How old the listings are

Chef

just posted46d median90d+

Personal Trainer

just posted32d median90d+

Demand

What each side asks for

Chef — technologies

Snowflake

72.0%

TypeScript

65.8%

Azure

59.6%

Kubernetes

53.4%

dbt

47.2%

Airflow

41.0%

JavaScript

34.8%

Personal Trainer — technologies

JavaScript

72.0%

Kotlin

65.8%

Kubernetes

59.6%

Python

53.4%

TypeScript

47.2%

Azure

41.0%

HubSpot

34.8%

Chef — employers

Northwind Systems

9.4%

Tidewater Insurance

8.7%

Solstice Biotech

8.0%

Kestrel Health

7.2%

Brightline Retail

6.5%

Fairmount Legal

5.8%

Beacon Robotics

5.1%

Personal Trainer — employers

Beacon Robotics

9.4%

Meridian Software

8.7%

Northwind Systems

8.0%

Tidewater Insurance

7.2%

Quarry Analytics

6.5%

Umbra Security

5.8%

Ironbark Manufacturing

5.1%

More comparisons

Other Hospitality comparisons

Chef vs Team Member Personal Trainer vs Team Member

Both sides are counted the same way on the same day, so the gap is comparable even where the absolute numbers move. Salary figures use only postings that publish a range — the disclosure rate is in the table because a median over 20% of a cohort is a weaker number than one over 70%.