Gambling and Sports Book Writers and Runners Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

The five rows are five different workers in the same occupation, from the 10th percentile ($22,200) to the 90th ($45,900). BLS suppresses cells that fail its reliability rules (n/p here) and caps the highest wages at $239,200+ a year or $115.00+ an hour; in this ladder that top code appears at the very top rows only.

Employment and concentration

The occupation employed 7,600 people in May 2024, 0.00% of every job BLS counted. Nevada is the largest employer at 1,040 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 30.9% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in Nevada, whose location quotient of 13.76 says this work is 13.76 times as dense there as it is nationwide.

Read the ladder as a career path in numbers: $24,960 at the 25th percentile, $30,460 at the middle, $36,310 at the 75th. The full 10-to-90 range runs $23,700, a ratio of 2.1 to 1. Where a specific job offer lands on that range says more about the role's level than the occupation's headline median does.

Pay by state

The state spread for Gambling and Sports Book Writers and Runners runs from the $53,120 median in New York down through every other publishing state. Employment concentrates in Nevada (1,040 jobs). The complete table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Gambling and Sports Book Writers and Runners stands number 721 by employment and number 824 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Personal Care and Service Occupations, the group median wage is $37,320 across 32 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 18% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.2% of the group's 3,159,920 jobs. In 18 of the 30 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $30,460, which is the single best quick test of whether this occupation's pay is set nationally or locally: a high count means local markets regularly outbid the national figure.

Metropolitan areas: where the jobs and the pay sit

Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV is the largest metro employer with 750 jobs, 9.9% of the national total. The first table ranks metros by employment; the second ranks them by mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs in the occupation, because a three-person metro can top a pay table by accident.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $31,620 a year, against $31,620 in Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV. A gap that size between two metro labor markets is why the same occupation title can fund two very different budgets in two different cities.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

The median Gambling and Sports Book Writers and Runners paycheck, gross, is $1,172 every two weeks on an annual $30,460, which is $2,538 a month and $586 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($24,960) to the 75th ($36,310) is worth $11,350 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. Gross is a starting point, not a budget: the paycheck calculator nets it down by state, an offer comparison lives in the salary calculator, and the raise vs inflation calculator separates a real raise from a nominal one.

To place a real offer: a salary of $33,506 would sit between the median ($30,460) and the 75th percentile ($36,310), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $24,960, is $5,500 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

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