If you get an opportunity to work for world-famous chef Nusret Gokce, or better known as Salt Bae, you'd reckon that it would be an amazing experience, right?

Well, not really.

Poor pay?

A vacancy posted up by Salt Bae’s lavish London restaurant has come under heavy fire recently for its seemingly low pay.

According to Daily Mail UK, the celebrity hotspot Nusr-Et Steakhouse in Knightsbridge posted up an ad on Caterer.com looking for a Chef de Partie.

In the job posting, the successful applicant "will be working with some of the finest ingredients from the UK and abroad in one of the most famous steakhouses in the world."

Sounds like a pretty good benefit, right? Well, that is until you hear how much you're getting paid for the role.


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The chef will be paid just £12.00 (RM67) to £13.50 (RM75) per hour plus tips - which, shockingly, is the price of mashed potatoes or sweet corn at the newly opened upscale eatery.

It may be a lucrative offer for many, but when compared to the price the restaurant charges for the food it puts out, it seems to be a poor pay.

Salt Bae's restaurants are known to charge exorbitant prices for its food: a single steak can go up to £630 (RM3,566) or if you have deep enough pockets, you can opt for the 24-Carat gold Tomhawk steak, which goes for an eye-watering £1,500 (RM8,366).


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However, a quick check on Google revealed that the average pay a Chef De Partie gets per hour in the UK is around £8.40 (RM47), so technically, Salt Bae is paying above market rate.

But considering how much he charges for a night out at his diner -- a receipt totalling up to £37,023.10 (RM206,707.78) went viral on social media recently -- maybe people were expecting Salt Bae, who owns 17 restaurants around the world and has 38 million followers on Instagram, to be a bit more generous with his staff?

Either way, we have a feeling that someone will take up the offer nonetheless.