700+ Hospitality & Food Service Jobs in Miami, FL

The cleanest direct local pay anchor is for food preparation and serving related occupations: average hourly pay was $17.86 in May 2025, slightly below the national $18.44 for that occupational group. That lines up with current local hourly postings in the broader category, which center on about $16 to $18 an hour. Higher numbers do exist, but they sit in narrower tracks: proxy data puts local chefs at a $57,940 median, with about $37,440 at the 25th percentile and $75,430 at the 75th percentile, while restaurant cooks sit closer to $17.75 per hour or roughly $36,920 per year.

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Advertised pay

Across the 275 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $31,200 at the 25th percentile, $36,400 at the median and $41,600 at the 75th. These are advertised ranges, not earned pay.

Active openings as of September 11, 2026

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What our analysts see this month

Balanced market | next 3-6 months

Miami is still a real hospitality labor market, not a dead one: leisure and hospitality employment reached 345.5 thousand in July 2026 and was up 1.1713% year over year, while food preparation and serving related work accounted for 8.8% of metro employment in the latest direct occupation data. But it is not an easy-money market. The metro unemployment rate was 3.7% in July 2026, the unemployment level was up 4.7701% year over year, and direct local food-service pay averaged $17.86 an hour, slightly below the national $18.44 for that occupational group. The result is a market with real openings and many employers, but one where speed, flexibility, and role targeting matter more than simply sending more applications.

Best positioned: Candidates with recent on-site service experience, food-safety credibility, and cross-training across kitchen, counter, or hotel operations have the best odds right now.

Main caution: The biggest trap is assuming Miami's tourism brand automatically means high pay; most accessible openings are still hourly, on-site, and cost-sensitive.

From the August 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 700 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. Flanigan: 58 open roles
2. Marriott International, Inc.: 29 open roles
3. CoralTree Hospitality Group: 17 open roles
4. Graziano's Group: 17 open roles
5. Pier Sixty-Six: 16 open roles
6. FirstService Residential: 13 open roles
7. Loews Hotels & Co: 13 open roles
8. Riviera Dining Group: 13 open roles
9. Compass Group: 12 open roles
10. Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc.: 12 open roles

Where the openings are

• Miami: 234
• Fort Lauderdale: 129
• Miami Beach: 76
• Aventura: 23
• Pompano Beach: 22
• Hollywood: 21
• Coral Gables: 20
• Doral: 16

Work arrangement

on-site 679 (100%)

Where the demand is

Real opportunity is spread across a long tail of employers rather than a few dominant brands. Over the last 90 days, more than 1,300 hospitality, food service and travel postings were observed across more than 350 companies in the metro, and the hiring mix is fragmented rather than concentrated. Within that sample, the biggest slices sit in hospitality at about 50%, food & beverage at about 25%, restaurants at about 10%, and a smaller healthcare food-service slice at about 5%. That mix matters. The most dependable openings are not necessarily the flashiest independent venues; they are the operators with repeat staffing needs across rooms, food and beverage, and guest services. Recent examples include simultaneous hiring at Palm Beach Marriott Singer Island Beach Resort & Spa, Homewood Suites by Hilton Miami Airport Blue Lagoon, and Courtyard Miami at Dolphin Mall. On the restaurant side, the metro is seeing both new openings and churn: Fort Lauderdale has new concept launches in fast-casual and upscale dining, Palm Beach County has multiple 2026 restaurant openings underway, and Miami Beach is reshuffling operators rather than moving in a single direction. For job seekers, this means volume is real but uneven. If you want the fastest path to an offer, target employers with multiple concurrent openings and be willing to fit into whichever nearby role they need filled first.

• Hotels and resorts (high): Best for candidates who can work on-site and move between guest service, food and beverage, and room operations.
• Multi-unit restaurants and fast-casual chains (high): Good entry path for applicants with speed, reliability, and comfort in standardized operations.
• Premium dining and chef tracks (moderate): Worth targeting if you already have culinary depth, specialty cuisine experience, or leadership credibility.
• Institutional food service (moderate): Smaller slice of demand, but often steadier for candidates who value process, sanitation, and predictable operations.

Where to focus: Start with branded hotels/resorts and multi-unit restaurant groups, then layer in premium-dining openings only if your resume already shows specialized culinary or service experience.

Roles worth searching next

• Retail shift supervisor: Restaurant, coffee, and hotel service workers already bring customer handling, cash accountability, and pace management that transfer cleanly into retail supervision.
• Customer support or reservations coordinator: Front-desk, concierge, and guest-service experience translates well into phone, chat, and scheduling-heavy service roles.
• Administrative receptionist or office coordinator: Hotel front-desk candidates already know check-in style workflows, visitor handling, issue triage, and calendar discipline.
• Janitorial or environmental services lead: Housekeeping experience transfers into cleaning standards, room turnover discipline, inspection readiness, and team coordination.
• Inventory or purchasing coordinator: Candidates who already handle stock, spoilage, ordering, and vendor receiving in kitchens can move into more operations-focused support roles.

What postings ask for

• Food safety certification (table_stakes | immediate): Food safety certification is the most commonly named certification in local postings, making it one of the fastest credibility signals for kitchen, catering, and supervisory applicants. Who: Entry-level kitchen candidates, career switchers, and anyone applying for cook, prep, banquet, or shift-lead roles.
• Food preparation, sanitation, and recipe adherence (table_stakes | immediate): Local postings repeatedly call for food preparation, food safety, recipe adherence, knife skills, and sanitation, which means employers are hiring for execution discipline more than creativity at the front end. Who: Line cooks, prep cooks, pastry support, and candidates trying to break into back-of-house roles.
• Cash handling and customer service (table_stakes | immediate): Cash handling and customer service are among the most-requested hard skills in local postings, especially for counter, barista, server-support, and front-desk-adjacent work. Who: Front-of-house applicants, coffee and quick-service candidates, and switchers from retail or care work.
• Inventory management (differentiator | near-term): Inventory management shows up alongside core kitchen and service skills in local postings, so it helps separate applicants who can simply work a shift from those who can help run an operation. Who: Mid-career cooks, shift leaders, assistant managers, banquet leads, and hotel food-and-beverage candidates.
• Cross-trained station flexibility (differentiator | immediate): Recent local restaurant growth signals skew toward concepts that want cross-trained kitchen staff and quick-service counter teams, not narrowly specialized white-tablecloth staffing. Who: Entry-level applicants and cooks or servers trying to land offers faster.
• AI-powered tools and data analytics (premium | near-term): Over 65% of hospitality employers now require graduates to show proficiency with AI-powered tools and data analytics for management-oriented work, especially around pricing and operational decisions. Who: Front-desk supervisors, hotel managers, revenue-minded candidates, and anyone aiming above hourly frontline work.

Questions about this market

What do Hospitality, Food Service & Travel roles pay in Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL?

The cleanest direct local pay anchor is for food preparation and serving related occupations: average hourly pay was $17.86 in May 2025, slightly below the national $18.44 for that occupational group. That lines up with current local hourly postings in the broader category, which center on about $16 to $18 an hour. Higher numbers do exist, but they sit in narrower tracks: proxy data puts local chefs at a $57,940 median, with about $37,440 at the 25th percentile and $75,430 at the 75th percentile, while restaurant cooks sit closer to $17.75 per hour or roughly $36,920 per year. This is a market that offers a lot of work, but not a broad wage premium. At the state level, new hospitality openings carried a mean offered salary of about $39,194 in August 2026, versus about $72,228 across all occupations in Florida, which shows how far hospitality pay still trails the wider market.

Where is demand for Hospitality, Food Service & Travel roles in Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL concentrated?

Real opportunity is spread across a long tail of employers rather than a few dominant brands. Over the last 90 days, more than 1,300 hospitality, food service and travel postings were observed across more than 350 companies in the metro, and the hiring mix is fragmented rather than concentrated. Within that sample, the biggest slices sit in hospitality at about 50%, food & beverage at about 25%, restaurants at about 10%, and a smaller healthcare food-service slice at about 5%. That mix matters. The most dependable openings are not necessarily the flashiest independent venues; they are the operators with repeat staffing needs across rooms, food and beverage, and guest services. Recent examples include simultaneous hiring at Palm Beach Marriott Singer Island Beach Resort & Spa, Homewood Suites by Hilton Miami Airport Blue Lagoon, and Courtyard Miami at Dolphin Mall. On the restaurant side, the metro is seeing both new openings and churn: Fort Lauderdale has new concept launches in fast-casual and upscale dining, Palm Beach County has multiple 2026 restaurant openings underway, and Miami Beach is reshuffling operators rather than moving in a single direction. For job seekers, this means volume is real but uneven. If you want the fastest path to an offer, target employers with multiple concurrent openings and be willing to fit into whichever nearby role they need filled first.

Which employers are hiring the most Hospitality, Food Service & Travel talent in Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL?

Recent postings show the most activity from Flanigan (more than 150 postings), Starbucks Corp. (more than 75 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

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