High paying food service jobs in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR with no degree

The best paid food service occupations in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR that require no bachelor's degree — a high school diploma, a certificate, or an associate's degree is the typical entry. This is the narrowest cut on the site, so it is also the shortest list: where a field has only two or three such occupations, there is no page at all rather than a page pretending otherwise.

Local wage estimates are suppressed more often than state ones — BLS withholds any figure too few local employers report — so an occupation missing here simply has no published local estimate.

Wages: BLS OEWS, May 2025

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OccupationMedian, San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR · Employed

1Chefs and Head Cooks$35,990
High school diploma or equivalent
$23,730 – $72,290550
2First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers$28,670
High school diploma or equivalent
$23,330 – $42,4404,820
3Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria$26,260
No formal educational credential
$21,840 – $39,5704,460
4Cooks, Restaurant$25,500
No formal educational credential
$21,840 – $30,0907,210
5Waiters and Waitresses$24,250
No formal educational credential
$21,840 – $44,8709,190
6Dishwashers$23,130
No formal educational credential
$21,840 – $26,0401,480
7Bartenders$22,880
No formal educational credential
$21,840 – $38,4402,680
8Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers$22,880
No formal educational credential
$21,840 – $26,410830
9Food Preparation Workers$22,800
No formal educational credential
$21,840 – $29,0302,740
10Cooks, Fast Food$22,680
No formal educational credential
$21,840 – $29,3602,350
11Cooks, Short Order$22,580
No formal educational credential
$21,840 – $23,3501,120
12Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop$22,520
No formal educational credential
$21,840 – $24,9601,030
13Fast Food and Counter Workers$22,130
No formal educational credential
$21,840 – $23,03017,900
14Food Servers, Nonrestaurant$21,840
No formal educational credential
$21,840 – $24,710360

Bars run from the 10th to the 90th percentile; the middle half is shaded darker, and the tick is the median.

#	Occupation	MedianSan Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	Chefs and Head CooksHigh school diploma or equivalent	$35,990	$23,730 – $72,290	550
2	First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$28,670	$23,330 – $42,440	4,820
3	Cooks, Institution and CafeteriaNo formal educational credential	$26,260	$21,840 – $39,570	4,460
4	Cooks, RestaurantNo formal educational credential	$25,500	$21,840 – $30,090	7,210
5	Waiters and WaitressesNo formal educational credential	$24,250	$21,840 – $44,870	9,190
6	DishwashersNo formal educational credential	$23,130	$21,840 – $26,040	1,480
7	BartendersNo formal educational credential	$22,880	$21,840 – $38,440	2,680
8	Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender HelpersNo formal educational credential	$22,880	$21,840 – $26,410	830
9	Food Preparation WorkersNo formal educational credential	$22,800	$21,840 – $29,030	2,740
10	Cooks, Fast FoodNo formal educational credential	$22,680	$21,840 – $29,360	2,350
11	Cooks, Short OrderNo formal educational credential	$22,580	$21,840 – $23,350	1,120
12	Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee ShopNo formal educational credential	$22,520	$21,840 – $24,960	1,030
13	Fast Food and Counter WorkersNo formal educational credential	$22,130	$21,840 – $23,030	17,900
14	Food Servers, NonrestaurantNo formal educational credential	$21,840	$21,840 – $24,710	360

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR. The rarer ones are real jobs — but a 1,190-person occupation at the top of a list answers a different question than the one most readers are asking.

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