Chef pay in Ontario
No figure from job ads
We do not show a figure from job ads for chef jobs in Ontario. Many of these ads offer about $36.00 an hour, the government's minimum for hiring through the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, so they do not show what most workers in this job are paid. The Government of Canada figures below come from what workers report earning.
The Government of Canada's Job Bank puts the median for chefs in Ontario at $22.00 an hour (2023 to 2024 data).
Wage minimums: Employment and Social Development Canada: hourly wage thresholds for Labour Market Impact Assessments, checked November 14, 2026.
How it compares
All figures are hourly, before tax. Job Bank figures come from what workers reported earning in earlier years.
Government of Canada figures
| Area | Low | Median | High |
|---|---|---|---|
| OntarioLabour Force Survey, 2023 to 2024 | $17.95 | $22.00 | $34.19 |
| CanadaLabour Force Survey, 2023 to 2024 | $16.03 | $23.00 | $32.69 |
Hourly wages. Job Bank publishes by economic region, a group of nearby cities and towns, not by city. Low usually means 1 in 10 workers reported earning less, and high means 1 in 10 reported earning more (Job Bank method). Where a Job Bank survey figure is lower than today's Ontario minimum wage of $17.95, we show the minimum wage instead, as Job Bank does on its own site.
Chef pay by city in Ontario
- Mississauga, ON$33.65 /hr
Related jobs in Ontario
- Cook$20.88 /hr
- Food service supervisor$19.50 /hr
- Food counter attendant and food preparer$21.58 /hr
- Server$18.00 /hr
- Baker$20.00 /hr
- Sous chef$28.51 /hr
- Dishwasher$18.30 /hr
- Bartender$18.00 /hr
Chef jobs in Ontario now
How we work this out
We use every MovoJobs ad for this job with a workplace in Ontario, where the employer listed pay in Canadian dollars. The ads were first added between January 21, 2026 and November 14, 2026, including ads that have since closed. Pay that we estimated from the text is never used.
Ranges count at their midpoint. Yearly, monthly, weekly and daily pay become hourly at 40 hours a week. When one employer posts the same rate more than once, it counts as one ad. We publish a figure only when at least 20 ads from at least 5 employers match, and no single employer posted more than half of them. Job titles are matched to Canada's National Occupational Classification, so similar titles (such as line cook and prep cook) count together.
We do not publish a figure when most ads sit on the government's wage minimum for hiring through the Temporary Foreign Worker Program and the figure is well above Job Bank, or when a city's ads are all shared with a larger city nearby.
Sources
- MovoJobs job ads with employer-listed pay, January to November 2026. Updated November 14, 2026.
- Job Bank, Government of Canada: Wages (open data, 2025 release), revised November 19, 2025. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada. Explore more on Job Bank.
- Government of Ontario: minimum wage, checked November 14, 2026.
- Statistics Canada: economic regions (SGC 2021), to match cities to Job Bank regions.