Job Description: Waiters and Waitresses work in restaurants, hotel dining rooms, coffee shops, diners, resorts, and other food and beverage establishments where they take customer orders, serve food and beverages, and prepare itemized receipts. Waiters and Waitresses may work in coffee shops where service must be both quick and efficient. Duties may also include escorting customers to tables, taking payments, working as cashiers, and setting up and clearing tables. Those employed by fine restaurants, where meals are more carefully prepared, are expected to provide more personal service.
Wages - Statewide:
To give you an idea of how much you might earn, we have given you the average hourly wages and average yearly wages for this career throughout California. Wages can vary greatly in different parts of the State.
Hourly Average Wages:
$
19,766
Yearly Average Wages:
$
19,766
Source: California Occupational Employment and Wage Data, 2008
Job Openings:
An average of 15840 job openings will be available statewide per year. The number of openings includes both new jobs and replacement openings as workers leave the occupation.
Source: California Occupational Employment Projections 2004 - 2014
