You could eat Pizza Hut for a year and get paid over $30,000 for doing it. But there’s a catch

Calling all pizza lovers—so, yes, everyone—your dream job awaits. 

Pizza Hut is hiring someone to eat free pizza for an entire year. Not only that, but the company will pay you $31,415.92 to do so. Math aficionados might notice that the Pizza Hut salary is actually the first seven digits of pi. Pizza Hut’s hiring of a “Hut Crust Connoisseur” comes ahead of Pi Day on March 14. 

The $31,415.92 is a significant jump from the £5,000 ($6,700) that Pizza Hut Delivery offered for a UK-based Chief Crust Taster in 2021.

But then it pales in comparison to Wendy’s $100,000 offer for a similar job last week. 

Still, it’s not a bad deal. Here’s everything you need to know about Pizza Hut’s new Hut Crust Connoisseur role. 

What does being the Hut Crust Connoisseur entail?

Pizza Hut announced the Hut Crust Connoisseur position alongside a new platform called, fittingly, “Hut Crust,” celebrating the chain’s recognizable crusts. It’s also launching a new crust, the Garlic-Parm Hut Blend. 

The company is pitching the Hut Crust Connoisseur’s role as “guardian” of the Hut Crust platform.

“This isn’t a role where you need to know what synergy means, you just need to love Pizza Hut. You’ll taste, test, and review our crust innovations,” Pizza Hut states. 

Be prepared to create content, though.

According to the fine print, Pizza Hut will pay you the $31,415.92 and provide two $260 Pizza Hut gift cards “upon making a specified number of videos/posts and other deliverables as set forth in a contract.”

How do you apply to be the Hut Crust Connoisseur?

Interested in being the company’s Hut Crust Connoisseur? There are a few steps you’ll have to take: 

• Purchase and try Pizza Hut’s new Hand Tossed with the Garlic-Parm Hut Blend crust finisher 
• Film a video reviewing the new Hand Tossed with the Garlic-Parm Hut Blend crust finisher 
• Go to www.pizzahutcrust.com and complete the online entry form 
• Answer two application questions
• Follow the prompts to submit your entry

Pizza Hut also has specific guidelines for the entry video, such as being in English and under 60 seconds, with the applicant appearing on camera and saying “Hut Crust Connoisseur.”

The company will judge all entries based on: 

• Creativity & Originality (35%)
• Food Passion & Personality (50%)
• Social Presence & Comfort with Sharing (10%)
• Practical Fit (5%)

Entry is available to any resident of the United States aged 21 or over. However, individuals living in Colorado, Connecticut, Maryland, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. territories and possessions are not eligible. 

You can apply for the position from now until Wednesday, March 25, at 5:00 p.m. ET. The contest’s full rules are available here (including a notable class action waiver). Judging will likely occur around Friday, April 10. 

Pizza Hut is facing hurdles

Like many restaurant chains, Pizza Hut has struggled in the face of reduced consumer spending and rising operating costs. In February, the chain announced that it would close about 250 “underperforming” U.S. locations in the first half of 2026. That figure represents about 3% of its locations nationwide.

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