700+ Hospitality & Food Service Jobs in Phoenix, AZ

Government data shows two lower anchors: Phoenix food preparation and serving occupations averaged $20.58 per hour in May 2025, and the broader food preparation and serving family had a $36,720 annual median with a $34,020 25th percentile and $45,530 75th percentile. New-opening salary data is higher but should be read as a management-skewed proxy: Arizona hospitality, food service & travel openings averaged about $40,025 in offered salary (n=664), while local posted salaried roles center on about $65k to $80k and hourly roles on about $15 to $18 / hour.

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Advertised pay

Across the 413 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $32,552 at the 25th percentile, $37,440 at the median and $41,600 at the 75th. These are advertised ranges, not earned pay.

Active openings as of October 17, 2026

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What our analysts see this month

Competitive market | next 3-6 months

Phoenix is still a workable market for hospitality, food service, and travel job seekers, but it is not an easy one right now. The metro showed more than 1,300 recent postings across more than 350 companies, yet local leisure and hospitality employment was down 2.6738% year over year in August 2026 even as total metro nonfarm employment rose 0.9134%. That means there are real openings, especially around hotel expansion and new restaurant concepts, but employers can be pickier than the broader Phoenix job market would suggest.

Best positioned: Candidates with recent multi-unit restaurant, hotel/front-office, banquet, housekeeping, or shift-lead experience, plus food safety and inventory skills, have the best odds because local demand is concentrated in on-site frontline and supervisor roles.

Main caution: Do not read the salaried posting band as typical frontline pay: local posted salaried roles center on about $65k to $80k, but hourly postings center on about $15 to $18 / hour and the BLS category median for the broader food preparation and serving family was $36,720 in 2025.

From the September 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 738 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. Marriott International, Inc.: 45 open roles
2. Compass Group: 21 open roles
3. Indoughwecrust: 17 open roles
4. Texas Roadhouse, Inc.: 17 open roles
5. Pyramid Global: 15 open roles
6. Banner Health: 13 open roles
7. BBQ Holdings, Inc.: 13 open roles
8. Cogir USA: 12 open roles
9. Spectrum Retirement Communities, LLC.: 12 open roles
10. Troon Golf, LLC: 12 open roles

Where the openings are

• Phoenix: 216
• Scottsdale: 196
• Chandler: 56
• Peoria: 50
• Mesa: 41
• Gilbert: 40
• Tempe: 34
• Goodyear: 20

Work arrangement

on-site 700 (100%), remote 2 (0%)

Where the demand is

Opportunity is not evenly spread across the category. The biggest concentration in recent Phoenix-area postings sits in hospitality itself at about 45% of postings, followed by restaurants at about 20%; retail and food & beverage each contribute about 10%, and hospitals and health care about 5%. That mix, plus a pipeline of 26 new hotels and approximately 3,615 rooms by the end of 2026, points to the best near-term odds in hotel operations, front desk, housekeeping, banquet, and food-and-beverage service attached to lodging. Hotels look stronger than the headline sector decline suggests. The Denū Hotel & Spa, a 236-room downtown property, opened in September 2026, and the Hilton Garden Inn Downtown Chandler added 68 rooms and 3,200 square feet of conference space earlier in 2026. Those additions matter because new rooms and meeting space create repeat demand for guest-facing and rooms-operations roles. Restaurants are still active, but the signal is more local and more mixed. Phoenix recently saw Homme Thai Supper Club open with 50 seats, Upward Projects add shared culinary leadership across six concepts plus the planned Lado A Lado, and multiple fall openings in Uptown, Tempe, and South Phoenix. That means cooks, bartenders, servers, and shift leads should target expanding restaurant groups and pre-opening staffing waves rather than assume the whole sector is accelerating.

• Hotels, resorts, and banquet-heavy properties (high): Lodging and on-property food-and-beverage operations are the biggest slice of recent local postings, and Phoenix is projected to open 26 hotels with about 3,615 rooms by end-2026.
• Restaurant groups and pre-opening kitchens (moderate): Restaurants are about 20% of sampled postings, and current local expansion includes chef-led openings and multi-brand groups adding concepts.
• Coffee, quick-service, and retail-adjacent food service (high): Retail-related employers are part of the local mix, and Starbucks Corp. alone posted more than 100 roles in the last 90 days.
• Hospital and health-system food service (moderate): Hospitals and health care account for about 5% of sampled postings, which makes this a smaller but steadier lane for applicants who want predictable operations.

Where to focus: Spend the next 30-90 days on hotel operations and multi-unit restaurant groups, with a secondary lane into hospital or health-system food service if you want steadier scheduling.

Roles worth searching next

• Retail shift lead / store supervisor: Local hospitality hiring already overlaps with retail employers, and the same cash-handling and customer-service skills show up often in Phoenix postings.
• Patient services representative / clinic front desk: Hospitals and health care account for about 5% of local hospitality-adjacent postings, and guest-service skills transfer cleanly to check-in, scheduling, and issue resolution.
• Office receptionist / front-office coordinator: Restaurant work builds communication, problem-solving, customer service, adaptability, and time management that employers value beyond hospitality.
• Property operations coordinator / leasing office assistant: Front-desk, guest-service, and issue-resolution habits translate well to resident and tenant support.

What postings ask for

• Food handler certification (table_stakes | immediate): It is the most frequently named certification in local postings, even though only about 5% explicitly list it, and it signals immediate readiness for regulated food work. Who: Anyone applying to kitchen, prep, barista, serving, or supervisor roles.
• Food safety (table_stakes | immediate): Food safety shows up in about 20% of local postings and sits alongside sanitation and safety compliance as a recurring hiring screen. Who: Cooks, prep workers, dish leads, shift leads, and anyone trying to move into back-of-house supervision.
• Cash handling and POS accuracy (table_stakes | immediate): Cash handling is the single most-requested hard skill in the local sample at about 25%, which makes it one of the fastest ways to qualify for entry-level openings. Who: Entry-level candidates, career switchers, baristas, counter staff, and hotel outlet applicants.
• Inventory management (differentiator | immediate): Inventory management appears in about 20% of local postings and is one of the clearest signals that you can step beyond pure service into shift or cost-control responsibility. Who: Mid-career applicants aiming for shift lead, kitchen lead, or assistant manager roles.
• Customer service and communication (differentiator | immediate): Customer service appears in about 15% of local postings, and national restaurant career research highlights communication, problem-solving, adaptability, and time management as core transferable strengths. Who: Everyone, but especially career switchers and front-of-house applicants.
• Beverage preparation (differentiator | near-term): Beverage preparation appears in about 10% of local postings, which makes it a useful edge for coffee, bar, lounge, and hotel food-and-beverage roles. Who: Baristas, bartenders, servers moving into lounge work, and hotel outlet staff.

Questions about this market

What do Hospitality, Food Service & Travel roles pay in Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ?

Government data shows two lower anchors: Phoenix food preparation and serving occupations averaged $20.58 per hour in May 2025, and the broader food preparation and serving family had a $36,720 annual median with a $34,020 25th percentile and $45,530 75th percentile. New-opening salary data is higher but should be read as a management-skewed proxy: Arizona hospitality, food service & travel openings averaged about $40,025 in offered salary (n=664), while local posted salaried roles center on about $65k to $80k and hourly roles on about $15 to $18 / hour. In Phoenix, the floor is still hourly frontline work, while the upside sits in chef, restaurant manager, hotel operations, and revenue-oriented roles. That gap exists because about 70% of sampled postings are entry level, so the loudest openings are not always the best-paid ones.

Where is demand for Hospitality, Food Service & Travel roles in Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ concentrated?

Opportunity is not evenly spread across the category. The biggest concentration in recent Phoenix-area postings sits in hospitality itself at about 45% of postings, followed by restaurants at about 20%; retail and food & beverage each contribute about 10%, and hospitals and health care about 5%. That mix, plus a pipeline of 26 new hotels and approximately 3,615 rooms by the end of 2026, points to the best near-term odds in hotel operations, front desk, housekeeping, banquet, and food-and-beverage service attached to lodging. Hotels look stronger than the headline sector decline suggests. The Denū Hotel & Spa, a 236-room downtown property, opened in September 2026, and the Hilton Garden Inn Downtown Chandler added 68 rooms and 3,200 square feet of conference space earlier in 2026. Those additions matter because new rooms and meeting space create repeat demand for guest-facing and rooms-operations roles. Restaurants are still active, but the signal is more local and more mixed. Phoenix recently saw Homme Thai Supper Club open with 50 seats, Upward Projects add shared culinary leadership across six concepts plus the planned Lado A Lado, and multiple fall openings in Uptown, Tempe, and South Phoenix. That means cooks, bartenders, servers, and shift leads should target expanding restaurant groups and pre-opening staffing waves rather than assume the whole sector is accelerating.

Which employers are hiring the most Hospitality, Food Service & Travel talent in Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ?

Recent postings show the most activity from Starbucks Corp. (more than 100 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

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