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Travel Guides
Plan, organize, and conduct long-distance travel, tours, and expeditions for individuals and groups.
What a travel guide does
Become a travel guide
If you enjoy doing these activities, you might make a good travel guide
- Talking to others.
- Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.
- Looking for ways to help people.
- Understanding people's reactions.
- Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.
Discover what you could earn in Washington
- Typical hourly rate is $33 per hour with a typical salary of $45,000 per year.
- Half of workers earn between $23 and $35 per hour.
- Half of workers earn an annual salary between $2,600 and $19,600 per year.
- 11% of individuals in this occupation have been employed in every quarter of the past year.
Part-time
- The typical hourly rate for part-time workers is $37 per hour with a typical salary of $31,900 per year.
- 93.8% of individuals in this occupation worked part-time during the past year.
Travel Guide job outlook
Multiple Jobs
- 7% of individuals in this occupation worked for more than one employer.
- 35% of individuals in this occupation held a position in another.