Gambling Cage Workers 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 ($27,940) to the 90th ($49,350). 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

May 2024 employment stood at 13,490, or 0.01% of the U.S. total. Nevada leads the state table with 2,120 jobs; the top three states sum to 39.4% of the occupation. The concentration measure tells the more interesting story: Nevada posts a location quotient of 15.86, so a worker there is far more likely to meet a colleague in this field than the national pattern suggests.

One in ten workers in this field earns $27,940 or less, and one in ten earns $49,350 or more, so the top-to-bottom ratio is 1.8 to 1 and the annual gap is $21,410. The mean ($38,600) versus median ($36,990) comparison shows a right-skewed ladder where senior and specialist roles lift the average in this occupation.

Pay by state

Colorado posts the highest median annual wage in the state table at $49,130, and Nevada the largest headcount. The full table, sorted by employment:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Gambling Cage Workers stands number 636 by employment and number 764 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Office and Administrative Support Occupations, the group median wage is $47,850 across 54 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 23% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.1% of the group's 18,218,060 jobs. In 10 of the 30 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $36,990, 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 1,650 jobs, 12.2% of the national total. Two rankings follow across the 29 metros BLS publishes for this occupation: where the jobs are, then where the money is, with the pay ranking restricted to metros employing at least 500 people in this occupation to keep small samples out of the lead.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $38,330 a year, against $39,310 in Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV. The lowest-paying large metro and the highest are both real markets for this occupation; the difference between them is the geography premium, or penalty, in cash terms.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

Budget arithmetic on the median: $3,082 a month before tax, $1,423 biweekly, $711 weekly. Moving from the 25th percentile ($31,870) to the 75th ($43,840) is worth $11,970 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. To turn any of these gross figures into spendable money, run them through the paycheck calculator; to weigh an offer against your current role, use the salary calculator; to test a raise against prices, the raise vs inflation calculator.

To place a real offer: a salary of $40,689 would sit between the median ($36,990) and the 75th percentile ($43,840), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $31,870, is $5,120 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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