Which pays more, Chef or Team Member?

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 Team Member

Team Member pays more: a median of $52,000 against $50,000. There is 2.8× more demand for Team Member. Chef is the more remote-friendly of the two, by 5.6%. Listings for Chef move faster — median age 46 days against 59.

Comparison

Side by side

Measure	Chef	Team Member	Gap
Open postings	11,802	32,488	-20,686
Posted this week	304	783
Median salary	$50,000	$52,000	$-2k
25th percentile	$39.5k	$41k
75th percentile	$62k	$64.5k
Salary disclosed	4.1%	7.3%
Remote share	8.6%	3.0%	+5.6pp
Median age of posting	46d	59d
Open over 60 days	43.0%	47.7%
Visa sponsorship	7.3%	22.0%

Pay

Pay distribution

Chef

$23k$87k

Team Member

$23k$90k

Freshness

How old the listings are

Chef

just posted46d median90d+

Team Member

just posted59d 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%

Team Member — technologies

AWS

72.0%

Kotlin

65.8%

59.6%

Swift

53.4%

Python

47.2%

SQL

41.0%

Salesforce

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%

Team Member — employers

Aperture Labs

9.4%

Northwind Systems

8.7%

Ironbark Manufacturing

8.0%

Quarry Analytics

7.2%

Vantage Logistics

6.5%

Rivergate Media

5.8%

Tidewater Insurance

5.1%

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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%.