Senior-Level

Senior Road Consultant

A member calls about an upcoming road trip — and at the senior level, you handle the complex itineraries, multi-state planning, and member relationships that less-experienced advisors route up. Senior travel-counseling work in motor clubs.

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Job markets for Senior Road Consultants
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What it's like

What it's like to be a Senior Road Consultant

The senior road consultant's clients are repeat members planning their most significant trips — RV cross-country tours, snowbird seasonal moves, milestone-anniversary journeys. You're often the trusted road-trip resource across multiple trips and years. Member retention, complex-trip success, and referral generation anchor the visible measures.

The harder part is often the depth of road-and-travel knowledge senior consultants hold — every state's highways, scenic routes, RV-friendly campgrounds, road-condition patterns. Variance across employers is real: at AAA-affiliated clubs senior consultants work within structured travel-counseling operations; at smaller motor clubs seniors carry broader generalist scope.

It fits people who are map-deep, member-relationship-grown, and patient through complex-trip-planning conversations. The trade-off is modest pay offset by club benefits and the satisfaction of long-term member relationships.

RelationshipsAbove avg
SupportLower
IndependenceLower
AchievementLower
Working ConditionsLower
RecognitionLower
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Career Paths

Where this role sits in the broader career landscape — and where it can take you.

$239K$179K$119K$60K$0KLower paying387 metro areas, sorted by salary level
All experience levels1
This level's estimated range
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1 BLS OEWS May 2024 covers all Senior Road Consultants (SOC 43-4181.00), not just this title · BEA RPP 2023
* Top salaries exceed this figure. BLS caps reported wages at ~$240K to protect individual privacy in high-earning roles.
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The Broader Landscape

Roles like this one sit within a broader occupational category. The numbers below reflect that full landscape — helpful for context, but your specific experience will depend on level, specialty, and where you work.

$35K–$75K
Salary Range
10th – 90th percentile
127K
U.S. Employment
+2.8%
10yr Growth
14K
Annual Openings

How this category is changing

$64K$61K$59K$56K$53K201920202021202220232024$53K$64K
BLS OEWS May 2024 · BLS Employment Projections 2024–2034

Skills & Requirements

Service OrientationSpeakingActive ListeningSocial PerceptivenessReading ComprehensionCritical ThinkingPersuasionWritingTime ManagementJudgment and Decision Making
O*NET OnLine · Bureau of Labor Statistics
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