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Travel Guides & Tour Workers

SOC 39-7011

Lead tours and travelers through destinations and experiences.

The job

Median pay

$38k

$33k to $48k typical range

BLS figure for Tour and Travel Guides

Outlook, 2025 to 2035

Growing fast

+6.3% projected

BLS figure for Tour and Travel Guides

Openings a year

12k

BLS figure for Tour and Travel Guides

Typical education

High school

Our model

AI displacement risk

Low

How much of this job AI may do instead of the person

Works with AI

7/100

AI alongside the person rather than instead of them

AI exposure

12th pct

More exposed than 12% of occupations · modeled estimate

Future-proof

54/100

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Key skills

Speaking
Active Listening
Reading Comprehension
Monitoring
Critical Thinking
Writing

Pay and jobs by state

BLS OEWS May 2025, 51 states. Sorted by jobs; per 1,000 is jobs per thousand workers in the state; vs national compares that rate with the country's. A tilde marks a figure estimated from the parent occupation group where BLS publishes none.

State	Jobs	Per 1,000	vs national	Median pay
California	6,900	0.4	1.1×	$46k
New York	2,870	0.3	0.9×	$44k
Florida	2,720	0.3	0.8×	$42k
Arizona	2,450	0.8	2.2×	$38k
Texas	2,250	0.2	0.5×	$33k
Colorado	2,150	0.7	2.2×	$43k
Pennsylvania	1,970	0.3	0.9×	$33k
Tennessee	1,840	0.6	1.6×	$34k
Massachusetts	1,760	0.5	1.4×	$38k
Alaska	1,660	5.1	14.8×	$44k

All 51 states

State	Jobs	Per 1,000	vs national	Median pay
North Carolina	1,650	0.3	1.0×	$33k
Utah	1,630	0.9	2.7×	$39k
Virginia	1,548	0.4	1.1×	$37k~
Washington	1,420	0.4	1.2×	$54k
Hawaii	1,370	2.2	6.3×	$46k
Missouri	1,360	0.5	1.4×	$32k
Michigan	1,160	0.3	0.8×	$35k
Illinois	1,090	0.2	0.5×	$37k
Georgia	1,080	0.2	0.6×	$40k
Kentucky	1,010	0.5	1.5×	$36k
Ohio	1,000	0.2	0.5×	$33k
Wisconsin	910	0.3	0.9×	$30k
Indiana	700	0.2	0.6×	$31k
Montana	680	1.3	3.9×	$40k
South Carolina	660	0.3	0.8×	$35k
Minnesota	630	0.2	0.6×	$40k
Nevada	620	0.4	1.2×	$39k
Louisiana	580	0.3	0.9×	$32k
Wyoming	560	2.0	5.8×	$47k
Oregon	530	0.3	0.8×	$39k
Maryland	510	0.2	0.5×	$40k
Idaho	460	0.5	1.6×	$38k
South Dakota	440	1.0	2.8×	$35k
Alabama	410	0.2	0.6×	$32k
Kansas	400	0.3	0.8×	$44k
New Jersey	390	0.1	0.3×	$37k
Washington DC	380	0.5	1.6×	$49k
New Mexico	360	0.4	1.2×	$37k
Oklahoma	350	0.2	0.6×	$32k
Nebraska	340	0.3	1.0×	$32k
Delaware	330	0.7	2.0×	$33k
Iowa	330	0.2	0.6×	$22k
Maine	270	0.4	1.2×	$45k
West Virginia	270	0.4	1.1×	$29k
New Hampshire	260	0.4	1.1×	$42k
Connecticut	220	0.1	0.4×	$35k
Rhode Island	210	0.4	1.2×	$38k
Arkansas	160	0.1	0.4×	$34k
Mississippi	150	0.1	0.4×	$27k
Vermont	140	0.5	1.3×	$46k
North Dakota	90	0.2	0.6×	$35k

Top metro areas

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA2,360 jobs · $43k median
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ2,180 jobs · $46k median
Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ1,330 jobs
Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH1,290 jobs · $38k median
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV1,280 jobs · $46k median
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD1,060 jobs · $34k median
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA970 jobs · $52k median
St. Louis, MO-IL950 jobs · $32k median

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BLS does not publish this occupation on its own. Pay and outlook here are BLS's figures for Tour and Travel Guides (SOC 39-7010), the occupation it is grouped with, so the real figures for this job could sit either side of them. Skills and work activities from O*NET 30.3. AI exposure and future-proof scores are modeled estimates. How these numbers are made.