300+ Hospitality & Food Service Jobs in Indianapolis, IN

Official local wage data puts food preparation and serving related work at a $16.50/hour median in Indianapolis, with a 25th-75th percentile range of $13.75/hour to $21.10/hour and a mean of $15.85. In the local posting sample, hourly roles center on about $15 to $16 / hour, while posted annual salaries center on about $65k to $75k because the salaried subset skews toward managers and higher-responsibility roles.

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Advertised pay

Across the 125 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $31,720 at the 25th percentile, $35,360 at the median and $40,248 at the 75th. These are advertised ranges, not earned pay.

Active openings as of September 7, 2026

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What our analysts see this month

Balanced market | next 3-6 months

Indianapolis is still a workable market if you need an on-site hospitality or food-service job soon, but it is not a broad upswing market right now. Local leisure and hospitality employment was 113.1 thousand in June 2026, down 4.0712% year over year, even as metro unemployment stayed low at 3.4%. The local posting sample still showed more than 450 postings across more than 150 companies over the last 90 days, with hiring fragmented across employers and heavily entry-level. Pay remains modest for most frontline roles, with a local median of $16.50/hour for food preparation and serving related occupations.

Best positioned: Candidates with recent restaurant, hotel, café, or institutional dining experience plus customer service, cash handling, food safety, and schedule flexibility have the best odds right now.

Main caution: Do not mistake a large number of hourly openings for a strong wage market: most local roles are on-site, skew entry-level, and hourly postings center on about $15 to $16 / hour.

From the July 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 319 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. Compass Group: 17 open roles
2. Healthcare Services Group: 17 open roles
3. Aramark Corporation: 13 open roles
4. Coury Hospitality: 13 open roles
5. White Lodging: 13 open roles
6. Texas Roadhouse, Inc.: 11 open roles
7. American Senior Communities, LLC: 7 open roles
8. Patachou Inc: 7 open roles
9. Southern Rock Restaurants: 7 open roles
10. Become a Roadie: 6 open roles

Where the openings are

• Indianapolis: 186
• Carmel: 39
• Noblesville: 18
• Avon: 14
• Franklin: 12
• Greenwood: 12
• Fishers: 8
• Greenfield: 8

Work arrangement

on-site 309 (100%), remote 1 (0%)

Where the demand is

Real opportunity is spread across several employer types rather than one dominant brand. In the local posting sample, hiring was fragmented across employers, about 75% of postings came from enterprise employers, and the leading industries were hospitality (about 40%), restaurants (about 20%), food & beverage (about 15%), and healthcare (about 10%). That means you should not limit your search to independent restaurants; hotels, chain beverage operators, hospital dining contractors, and corporate dining vendors all matter here. The visible opening mix also points to practical sub-markets. State hospitality postings included a housekeeping opening at Fort Harrison Inn in Indianapolis, and Flik Hospitality Group was hiring a full-time Catering Attendant at Elanco Cafe in Indianapolis. Starbucks Corp. was among the most consistently active employers in the local sample, with more than 50 postings over the last 90 days. For job seekers, the best odds are in repeat-hiring employer types that need dependable on-site staff more than niche creative résumés.

• Hotels and lodging (high): This is the largest visible slice of the market through the broad hospitality mix, with active local signals in housekeeping and hotel food-and-beverage operations.
• Chain beverage and restaurant operators (high): Branded operators remain active, and the local skill mix favors cash handling, beverage preparation, and customer service.
• Institutional dining and healthcare food service (moderate): Healthcare represented about 10% of the posting mix, and local signals point to ongoing demand from institutional dining contractors and corporate catering setups.
• Management-track hospitality roles (limited): These roles pay better, but they are a much smaller slice of the market because only about 5% of the sample was lead+ and less than 5% was senior.

Where to focus: Focus first on enterprise hotel, chain beverage, and institutional dining employers, because that is where the local opening mix is deepest and most repeatable.

Roles worth searching next

• Retail shift supervisor: It uses the same mix of customer service, cash handling, staffing, and pace management.
• Customer service representative: Guest recovery, communication, and problem-solving transfer well from front desk, host, and server backgrounds.
• Office coordinator or front-office administrator: Front-desk hospitality experience maps well to calendars, visitor handling, and basic administrative flow.
• Inventory or receiving coordinator: Hospitality workers with stock, ordering, and prep experience already understand shrink, counts, and handoff discipline.

What postings ask for

• Customer service (table_stakes | immediate): Customer service is one of the most requested local skills, and BLS also lists it as a core attribute for food preparation and serving jobs. Who: Everyone, especially entry-level candidates and career switchers.
• Cash handling and POS systems (table_stakes | immediate): Cash handling was the top local hard-skill signal at about 25%, and broader sector guidance points to POS systems management as a recurring operational need. Who: Front-of-house, café, counter-service, and shift-lead candidates.
• Food safety / food handler permit / ServSafe (differentiator | immediate): Food safety showed up in the local skill mix, the most common local certification signal was a food handlers permit, and broader employer guidance highlights Food Safety Compliance and ServSafe as core standards. Who: Cooks, servers, catering staff, supervisors, and switchers without direct food-service history.
• Beverage preparation (differentiator | immediate): Beverage preparation accounted for about 15% of requested local hard skills, which makes it a concrete advantage for café, bar, and quick-service openings. Who: Barista, bartender, counter-service, and hotel lounge candidates.
• Inventory management and scheduling (differentiator | near-term): Inventory management appeared in about 15% of local skill signals, and one recent JW Marriott Indianapolis posting emphasized advanced scheduling and app-based shift swapping. Who: Mid-career applicants, lead candidates, and anyone targeting banquet, kitchen, or hotel operations.
• CRM, booking, and revenue-management software (premium | near-term): Hotel-facing employers increasingly value tech proficiency in CRM systems, revenue management systems, and booking software. Who: Front desk, hotel operations, sales-support, and management-track candidates.

Questions about this market

What do Hospitality, Food Service & Travel roles pay in Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN?

Official local wage data puts food preparation and serving related work at a $16.50/hour median in Indianapolis, with a 25th-75th percentile range of $13.75/hour to $21.10/hour and a mean of $15.85. In the local posting sample, hourly roles center on about $15 to $16 / hour, while posted annual salaries center on about $65k to $75k because the salaried subset skews toward managers and higher-responsibility roles. For most cooks, servers, baristas, hosts, housekeepers, and similar frontline jobs, this is a moderate-pay market with broad access rather than a high-pay market. BLS also identified food preparation and serving occupations as below the metro all-occupation average in pay.

Where is demand for Hospitality, Food Service & Travel roles in Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN concentrated?

Real opportunity is spread across several employer types rather than one dominant brand. In the local posting sample, hiring was fragmented across employers, about 75% of postings came from enterprise employers, and the leading industries were hospitality (about 40%), restaurants (about 20%), food & beverage (about 15%), and healthcare (about 10%). That means you should not limit your search to independent restaurants; hotels, chain beverage operators, hospital dining contractors, and corporate dining vendors all matter here. The visible opening mix also points to practical sub-markets. State hospitality postings included a housekeeping opening at Fort Harrison Inn in Indianapolis, and Flik Hospitality Group was hiring a full-time Catering Attendant at Elanco Cafe in Indianapolis. Starbucks Corp. was among the most consistently active employers in the local sample, with more than 50 postings over the last 90 days. For job seekers, the best odds are in repeat-hiring employer types that need dependable on-site staff more than niche creative résumés.

Which employers are hiring the most Hospitality, Food Service & Travel talent in Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN?

Recent postings show the most activity from Starbucks Corp. (50 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

Can Hospitality, Food Service & Travel roles in Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN be done remotely?

Of recent postings, 2% are remote and 3% hybrid, with 95% on-site. Use the Remote filter above to see only remote openings.

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