H-1B demand profile: Travel Guides. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 39-7012-00, employers filed 5 Labor Condition Applications for Travel Guides positions across 2 distinct H-1B sponsors. The DOL certified these petitions at a 40% rate, a measure of how cleanly the prevailing-wage and working-conditions attestations cleared preliminary review. That volume places Travel Guides among the concrete, data-backed specialty occupations qualifying under the H-1B program’s bachelor’s-degree-plus-theoretical-knowledge standard.

Salary band for Travel Guides. Offered wages on LCAs range from $35,360 at the floor to $42,973 at the ceiling, with an average of $40,414. These figures reflect what employers commit to pay sponsored workers, not market averages, each offer must meet or exceed the DOL prevailing wage (Level I through IV) for the worksite, so the distribution tracks wage-level geography, years of experience, and regional cost of labor more than it does any single employer’s pay philosophy.

Where and who sponsors Travel Guides. The top sponsor is Motorcycle Adventures, LLC with 3 petitions at an average offered wage of $42,973, followed by Alaska's Naknek River Camp. Geographically, CO leads with 3 filings (avg $42,973), followed by AK. Taken together, the sponsor concentration and state footprint give a practical read on where demand for Travel Guides actually clusters in the U.S. labor market, and how competitive pay for the role looks through the DOL’s H-1B lens.