Tour and Travel Guides · SOC 39-7010

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Tour and Travel Guidess

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025U.S. metropolitan areas

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for tour and travel guides. Areas where BLS suppressed the median are not ranked (3 such areas are excluded here). Higher medians often track higher living costs — this is a pay comparison, not a ranking of where the job is “best”.

Top 25 of 167 metro areas

Tour and Travel Guides: metro areas with the highest published median annual wages, May 2025
#	Metro area	Median annual	Employment	Per 1,000 jobs
1	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$63,630	870	0.4
2	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$59,330	640	0.6
3	Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA	$55,870	30	0.4
4	San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA	$54,550	120	1.0
5	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$52,480	970	0.4
6	Casper, WY	$51,120	60	1.4
7	Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA	$50,320	540	0.2
8	Topeka, KS	$49,780	30	0.3
9	Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL	$49,540	650	0.5
10	Kahului-Wailuku, HI	$49,430	260	3.6
11	Bozeman, MT	$49,080	150	2.1
12	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$47,740	280	0.3
13	Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA	$47,170	170	0.5
14	Portland-South Portland, ME	$47,070	150	0.5
15	Wenatchee-East Wenatchee, WA	$46,920	50	1.1
16	Salinas, CA	$46,130	120	0.6
17	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	$46,130	1,280	0.4
18	Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA	$45,620	110	0.5
19	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$45,610	2,180	0.2
20	Helena, MT	$45,140	50	1.2
21	Burlington-South Burlington, VT	$45,020	40	0.3
22	Fort Collins-Loveland, CO	$44,830	Not published	Not published
23	Anchorage, AK	$44,400	620	3.5
24	Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA	$44,270	50	0.5
25	Urban Honolulu, HI	$43,860	700	1.6

Full state and metro tables, the national distribution, and the pay map are on the Tour and Travel Guides overview.

About this data. Estimates are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program, May 2025 release, retrieved from bls.gov/oes/tables.htm on July 24, 2026. OEWS estimates describe metropolitan/nonmetropolitan areas and states — not city limits — and are not designed for year-over-year comparisons. See BLS methodology, our plain-English methodology, and sources. CitySalaryData is independent and not affiliated with BLS.