National Park Concession Work (Delaware North)
Delaware North — Yellowstone General Stores, Kennedy Space Center, Sequoia, Shenandoah, Grand Canyon
Pays you
$17–$18/hr
Specific Yellowstone positions posted at $17.20 to $18.20/hr (broader seasonal-Yellowstone aggregate averages a lower $15.86, so entry roles may sit below this band). DEDUCTIONS: dorm-style housing $50/WEEK with free laundry; the optional full meal plan is an ADDITIONAL $75/WEEK. If you take both, $125/week comes out of your check — roughly $3.13/hr off a 40-hour week, i.e. an $18.20 headline job nets about $15.07/hr equivalent. Taking housing only ($50/wk) and cooking or using the 50% shift-meal discount is materially cheaper. RV site with hookups is also $50/week but with coin laundry and communal facilities. Overtime is available in peak summer but not guaranteed. At $18.20/hr, 40 hrs/week: $728 gross, minus $50 housing = $678 before tax if you skip the meal plan, or $603 with it. Over a 16-week core season that is roughly $10,800 vs $9,650 gross-after-deduction — the meal plan costs about $1,200 across a season, so it only pays if it genuinely replaces all your food spending.
$150–$700 upfront to start
Retail, food service, and lodging jobs run by Delaware North inside Yellowstone and other parks, with dorm housing at a fixed weekly rate and an optional meal plan. The published housing and meal numbers are unusually transparent, which makes the net easy to calculate in advance.
- Term
- 3 mo–6 mo
- Housing
- Provided
- Airfare
- Not covered
- Selectivity
- Open enrollment
- Age
- 18+
- Citizenship
- Any citizenship
Deadlines
- 2027 summer seasonrollingRolling / no fixed deadline
Yellowstone concession hiring opens in winter (roughly Nov-Feb) for a May-October season and continues rolling; mid-season backfill hiring in June-July is common because of high early attrition.
Verified 9/11/2026 · www.occupationwild.com