The data Italian hospitality was missing
Salaries, roles, contracts and trends in Italian HoReCa work, drawn from our database, the largest of positions with declared salary on the market.
- 6,108positions analyzed
- €1,700median net monthly equivalent
- 40%of full-time offers exceed €30,000 gross
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Why it exists
The industry needs data, not complaints
Restaurateurs, workers and institutions need to understand what the market is really offering. With over 6,000 positions with declared salary, Restworld is in a position to fill this gap. Three principles guide every report:
Real data, not declared post-hoc
Salaries published in actual job listings, not survey responses. What we see is what the market is really offering.
Quality filter
Positions below legal thresholds aren't published on the platform. The dataset reflects the regulated, verified segment of the market.
Comparability
All salaries are converted to a monthly net equivalent over 12 months, to avoid distorted comparisons between contracts with 12, 13 or 14 monthly payments.
The reports
Available reports
The next reports will be quarterly. Subscribe to the newsletter to receive them as they come out.
- Report no.2·July 2026
Salaries, roles and trends in Italian HoReCa work
6,108 positions analyzed between April 2024 and June 2026, of which 1,189 in the latest quarter. From this issue the Observatory becomes a quarterly appointment, with an increasing focus on the present of the market.
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- Report no.1·April 2026·Historical 2024-2026 special
Salaries, roles and trends in Italian HoReCa work
4,919 positions analyzed from April 2024 to March 2026, across all 20 Italian regions. The first observatory report is a two-year historical baseline: the next ones will be quarterly.
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Salary by role
How much you earn in the kitchen, dining room and bar
Deep-dive pages on the most sought-after roles in the sector: average salary, career progression, percentiles, regional breakdown.
How many applications a job post gets
On Restworld a job post doesn't stay empty
Over the period analysed, a job post published with us collected on average these applications, role by role. Do you sort through them? No: we handle the selection, and your venue only receives profiles that fit.
- Cameriere81average applications
- Addetto sala74average applications
- Aiuto cuoco69average applications
- Banconista bar62average applications
- Chef de rang44average applications
- Cuoco capo partita33average applications
Average applications per single job post, by role. Restworld Observatory, report n.2, across 6,108 positions with declared salary.
Even for the hardest roles to fill, a job post gathers dozens of applications. You don't read through them: Restworld selects the right profiles for your venue.
See how to publish a job postMethodology
How we read the data
The detailed methodology is at the start of every report. Here's the summary.
- 01
Only positions with declared salary
We exclude from the analysis positions with hourly rates, anomalous values or incomplete data.
- 02
Only regulated listings
The dataset reflects the regulated segment of the market, not the entirety of the sector where undeclared work remains widespread.
- 03
Monthly net equivalent
All comparisons use the annual net pay divided by 12, to ensure comparability across contracts with different monthly payment structures.
- 04
Geographic comparisons on full-time only
Tables by area show only positions at 40 hours per week, to avoid distortions from the differing weight of part-time work.
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