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Home Chef Salary

Home Chef Salary

Home Chef pays a median of $104K ($92K–$134K) across 10 public job postings (2025–2026).

💰 $92K–$134K salary range

Median: $104K  ·  Based on 10 public Home Chef job postings  ·  Updated June 20, 2026


This Home Chef salary benchmark is built from public job postings — no private placement data. Figures reflect the posted-range midpoint (equity is separate) and are refreshed as new postings are collected.

📊 Salary breakdown

Home Chef · pay benchmark · updated June 20, 2026
$104K
inc. eng · sales · ops
All-role median
$92K–$134K
Typical range
$290K view JD
Highest base · VP of Engineering
10
Open roles
~4 yrs
Typical exp.
+1
10 last 90d
New last 30d
ⓘ Base salary only — 90% of roles mention equity
Highest-paying skills
Fiber $100K

Highest-paying open roles at Home Chef

Home Chef salary by location

  • Chicago: $108K median · $290K top base — VP of Engineering (view JD) (4 roles)

What Home Chef looks for

Most-required skills across these postings: Team Leadership (1) · Supply Chain (1) · JavaScript (1) · Ruby (1) · React (1) · Rails (1) · ATS (1) · HRIS (1) · Onboarding (1) · Employee Relations (1).

Benefits & perks at Home Chef

Commonly listed: dental (9) · hsa-fsa (9) · 401k (9) · pto (9) · childcare (9) · mental-health (1).

About Home Chef

Home Chef is Series B stage · 1,001–5,000 employees · founded 2013 · HQ Chicago, Illinois. This context shapes pay: later-stage, well-funded companies tend to anchor base salary higher.

Experience & background at Home Chef

Roles typically ask for around 4 years of experience (up to 10+ for the most senior). Most postings don't state a degree requirement; of the 2 that do, Associate's is most common.

Posted pay vs. total compensation

The figures on this page are the midpoint of each posting's advertised salary range (which, for commission roles, includes on-target earnings). Equity is a separate — and often large — component of total compensation, especially at high-growth and AI-native companies; 90% of these postings reference equity. Equity is not included in the medians above.

Home Chef total compensation signals

Beyond the posted-range midpoint, postings indicate: common structures: salaried. Bonus, commission, and equity vary by role and are not included in the base medians above.

Home Chef hiring activity

Home Chef has 10 open roles right now, and this benchmark draws on 10 public job postings with disclosed pay. 1 of these roles were first seen in the last 30 days (10 in the last 90).

💼 Similar companies hiring

Compare Home Chef's pay with companies in the same space:

CompanyMedian payvs Home ChefStage
Google$200K↑ +93%Public
SpaceX$135K↑ +30%Series D
Accenture Federal Services$154K↑ +48%Venture-backed
OpenAI$308K↑ +196%Late Stage
Esri$126K↑ +22%
Databricks$215K↑ +107%Series J

💸 Companies that pay more than Home Chef

Anthropic · Coframe · Triumph Arcade · Solutuslegal · Lambda

🏙 Top-paying tech companies in Chicago

Chicago Trading Company · Old Mission Capital · Jump Trading · Rowan · Coinflow Labs · Monroe Capital

📚 Salary guides & rankings

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Common questions

What does Home Chef pay?
The median pay is $104K, with a typical range of $92K–$134K, based on 10 public job postings (2025–2026). Base only — equity is separate.

What is the highest-paying job at Home Chef?
One of the highest-paying open roles is VP of Engineering, at $250K–$290K base.

Where does this data come from?
Public job postings on company career pages and public job boards — no private placement or client data.

Methodology

Posted-range midpoints (USD) aggregated from 10 public Home Chef job postings (2025–2026). Range = 25th–75th percentile; median = 50th percentile. Roles, departments, skills, and experience are parsed from the postings. Base salary only — equity excluded. Last refreshed June 20, 2026.

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