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For Utah,

To guide under a licensed outfitter:

-Pass Utah hunting guide examination with 75% or higher
-Valid drivers license
-send copy of Utah wildlife violation record
-High school diploma
- Documentation that you are First Aid, CPR certified current.
- send in criminal history records
-Documentation of 100 days acceptable training/experience (3 days experience=1 day training)
-Certification of basic hunting guide training program
-enclose $75 with aplication

I don't guide. I know of a few people that do, as subguides.

In NV, the master guide license is $1500 per year. Plus liability insurance, FS and BLM fees, taxes, upkeep of dogs, horses, trucks, sleds, 4 wheelers, etc.

Most guides that guide year round that I know of are guiding from August for deer into March or later for lions.

I make $25 per hour at my job. That is a 10 hour work day.

A guide starts at 4 am and goes until late that evening. For those that have lion hunted any amount of time, know that it can last into the next day.

So if we average $3500 for a 7 day hunt all included, meals, transportation, etc, then that is $500 per day. Minus the fuel ($100 or better), food ($50 for two people), dog food, and all the day to day expenses involved in keeping a Professional, long term, full time guiding operation, and the guide is lucky to get $15 an hour for himself. He still has to pay his mortgage, buy groceries for the wife and kids, pay the truck payment, and all the normal bills that everyone has.

It may seem like a big chunk of change for a guided hunt, (which it is), but to keep legal with the state, make enough money to pay the expenses of the operation, and pay your normal household bills, you have to charge a good amount of money to make it all work.