Kitchen assistant
What you will do
- Wash dishes and kitchen equipment
- Prepare ingredients as the cooks direct
- Keep the kitchen clean and follow hygiene rules
- Help receive and put away deliveries
You must have
- A valid health certificate
- Ready for shift work
- Ready to work standing
Good to have
- Previous kitchen work
- A wish to train as a cook
- How to apply
- [your link], by [date]
- Your answer
- Everyone who applies hears back by [date]
Job title Kitchen assistant Where [town or address], on site Hours Full time, [shift pattern] Pay [amount] to [amount] € a month before tax Contract [Permanent or fixed term], starting [date] What you will do • Wash dishes and kitchen equipment • Prepare ingredients as the cooks direct • Keep the kitchen clean and follow hygiene rules • Help receive and put away deliveries You must have • A valid health certificate • Ready for shift work • Ready to work standing Good to have • Previous kitchen work • A wish to train as a cook How to apply [your link], by [date] Your answer Everyone who applies hears back by [date]
How these figures are made
Estonia
- Kitchen helpers (ISCO 9412)
- average 1,098 €, median 1,064 €
- Fast food preparers (ISCO 9411)
- average 1,215 €, median 1,216 €
Full-time equivalent gross monthly pay by workplace, all of Estonia. The median is the pay that half the people in the group earn more than and half less. Source Statistics Estonia's pay app, checked on 1 October 2026. The usual range is the middle half of people in the group, the 25th to the 75th percentile, estimated from Statistics Estonia's pay bands of 500 €. A quarter of them are recorded below the minimum wage, which full-time work may not pay (946 € a month from 1 April 2026), so the range starts at the minimum wage.
What the job pays in other countries
It pays most in Denmark, about 4.1 times the Estonian median, though the Danish figure includes pension. If you send workers abroad or hire from there, this is the comparison that matters.
| Country | Median | Usual range | In euros a month | Occupation group |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EstoniaQ2 2026 | 1,064 € | 946–1,370 € | 1,064 € | Kitchen helpers (9412) |
| Finland2024 | 2,400 € | not published | 2,400 € | Kitchen helpers (9412) |
| Sweden2025 | 28,300 SEK | 26,000–30,600 SEK | ≈ 2,507 € | Restaurant and kitchen helpers (9412) |
| Norway2025 | 38,840 NOK | 35,720–42,390 NOK | ≈ 3,586 € | Kitchen helpers (9412) |
| Denmark2025 | 32,884 DKK | 27,861–37,078 DKK | ≈ 4,400 € | Kitchen helpers (9412) |
| Germany2025 | 2,556 € | 2,275–2,954 € | 2,556 € | Cooks (without specialisation) – unskilled/semiskilled tasks (29301) |
| United Kingdom2025 | 22,886 GBP a year | 18,811–26,766 GBP a year | ≈ 2,243 € | Kitchen and catering assistants (9263) |
Median pay for full-time work from each country's official source: Statistics Estonia, Statistics Finland, Statistics Sweden, Statistics Norway, Statistics Denmark, Federal Employment Agency, Office for National Statistics. The sources count slightly differently. Denmark's figure includes pension, Germany's holiday and Christmas pay, and the United Kingdom publishes a year's pay, divided by twelve here for the monthly comparison. Jobs are grouped by ISCO-08. Sweden, Germany and the United Kingdom have their own classifications, matched to it, and "closest group" marks a group that is near, not the same. Where a country counts fewer than 2,000 people in a job's first group and more in its second, the second is used. The usual range is the middle half of people in the job, the 25th to the 75th percentile. Finland publishes only the 10th and 90th, so it has none. In euros at the European Central Bank rate of 2 October 2026, 1 € = 11.29 SEK, 1 € = 10.83 NOK, 1 € = 7.47 DKK and 1 € = 0.85 GBP. These figures describe the market, not the minimum a collective agreement sets.