Hey everyone! Could someone give me insight regarding if tour guides are paid at Brown? It seems like they should be since they are basically the voice of the university.
Hi there-- I took a tour of Brown last week and all the tour guides treated it like a summer job. They give tours all day, must have a significant working knowledge of the academic program, and know the ins and outs of many aspects of campus life. Also, I go to a prep school that pays their summer tour guides, so I’m pretty sure an Ivy has at least equal standards. 
There’s probably a more qualified person to answer this, but I hope it helps!
Perhaps it’s different during the summer, but during the school year, being a tour guide is a volunteer position. For summer positions, it’s likely that they provide housing, and students are doing it while taking summer classes.
During the summer, the admission office hires several paid, part- and full-time summer ambassadors to lead campus tours and information sessions. The idea behind paying the summer guides is that they’re on their own for food and housing.
During the school year, all admissions programming is completely student run (unlike most schools’ admission offices where admission officers run and coordinate programming) and unpaid. Students leading campus tours, presenting information sessions, and hosting prospective students for Experience Brown are completely unpaid and doing this work out of their own good will, so please be sure to give them a thank you afterwards!