Cooks plan, organize, prepare and cook meals in hotels, restaurants and other eating places, on board ships, on passenger trains and in private households.
Skill level:
Semi-skilled
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- Salary range for the majority of workers in Cooks - from PK 18,497 to PK 79,984 per month - 2025.
- A Cooks typically earns between PK 18,497 and PK 40,564 net per month at the start of the job.
- After 5 years of service, this is between PK 20,058 and PK 53,119 per month for a working week of 48 hours.
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- A Cook in human health and social work activities in scale 2 with 4 years or less experience earned minimum Rs18,300.00 and maximum Rs50,050.00 per month in 2020.
Role Responsibilities
- Planning meals, preparing and cooking foodstuffs
- Planning, supervising and coordinating the work of kitchen helpers
- Checking the quality of food
- Weighing, measuring and mixing ingredients according to recipes and personal judgement
- Regulating the temperature of ovens, grills, roasters and other cooking equipment; inspecting and cleaning the kitchen, kitchen equipment and serving areas to ensure safe and sanitary food handling practices
- Operating large volume cooking equipment such as grills, deep-fat fryers, or griddles
