Gambling Dealers 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 ($22,340) to the 90th ($73,530). 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

BLS counted 82,980 Gambling Dealers jobs in May 2024, which is 0.05% of all U.S. employment in the survey. Work is most concentrated in Nevada, where the location quotient is 21.51, meaning the occupation holds 21.51 times its national share of local jobs. Nevada employs the most people outright, 17,700 of them, and the three largest state employers together account for 46.3% of the national total.

The spread matters as much as the center. Earners at the 90th percentile make $73,530, which is 3.3 times the $22,340 at the 10th, a difference of $51,190 annually. Because the mean wage ($40,420) sits above the median ($33,280), a typical offer should be judged against the median and the 25th to 75th percentile band, not the mean.

Pay by state

Sorted by employment, the table below puts Nevada first at 17,700 jobs; sorted by median pay instead, Wisconsin would lead at $59,040. Both orderings are printed in one table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Gambling Dealers stands number 297 by employment and number 816 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 11% less than its group median, and it supplies 2.6% of the group's 3,159,920 jobs. In 17 of the 33 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $33,280, 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 15,690 jobs, 18.9% of the national total. Two rankings follow across the 43 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, Reno, NV posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $24,850 a year, against $58,860 in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA. 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

The median annual wage of $33,280 works out to $2,773 a month before taxes, $1,280 per biweekly paycheck, and $640 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($24,480) to the 75th ($45,430) is worth $20,950 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. Run the median through the paycheck calculator for a take-home estimate in your state, compare an offer against your current pay with the salary calculator, and check whether a raise actually beats prices with the raise vs inflation calculator.

To place a real offer: a salary of $36,608 would sit between the median ($33,280) and the 75th percentile ($45,430), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $24,480, is $8,800 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Personal Care and Service Occupations

The occupations BLS groups with this one, by size: Tour and Travel Guides, Concierges, Baggage Porters and Bellhops, Funeral Attendants, Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Arrangers, First-Line Supervisors of Gambling Services Workers. Every one of the 826 published occupations is indexed on the Careers hub.