Gambling Managers Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

A percentile marks a point in this occupation's pay distribution: the worker one quarter of the way up the Gambling Managers ladder earns the 25th percentile wage, $70,190. BLS top-codes very high wages ($239,200+ a year, $115.00+ an hour) and marks estimates it cannot publish as n/p.

Employment and concentration

May 2024 employment stood at 4,620, or 0.00% of the U.S. total. Nevada leads the state table with 760 jobs; the top three states sum to 35.9% of the occupation. The concentration measure tells the more interesting story: Nevada posts a location quotient of 16.62, 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 $51,670 or less, and one in ten earns $165,220 or more, so the top-to-bottom ratio is 3.2 to 1 and the annual gap is $113,550. The mean ($102,480) versus median ($85,580) comparison shows a right-skewed ladder where senior and specialist roles lift the average in this occupation.

Pay by state

Sorted by employment, the table below puts Nevada first at 760 jobs; sorted by median pay instead, Washington would lead at $121,800. Both orderings are printed in one table:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Gambling Managers stands number 765 by employment and number 179 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Management Occupations, the group median wage is $106,980 across 38 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 20% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.0% of the group's 10,966,830 jobs. In 12 of the 26 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $85,580, 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 550 jobs, 11.9% 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, $112,040 a year, against $112,040 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

As a household number, $85,580 a year is $7,132 a month gross, $3,292 every two weeks, $1,646 a week. Moving from the 25th percentile ($70,190) to the 75th ($120,490) is worth $50,300 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. The next step from a gross figure is a net one: run the $7,132 monthly figure through the paycheck calculator applies your state's taxes, the salary calculator compares two offers in any unit, and the raise vs inflation calculator tells you whether a nominal raise is a real one.

To place a real offer: a salary of $94,138 would sit between the median ($85,580) and the 75th percentile ($120,490), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $70,190, is $15,390 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Management Occupations

The occupations BLS groups with this one, by size: Property, Real Estate, and Community Association Managers, Administrative Services Managers, Food Service Managers, Industrial Production Managers, Human Resources Managers, Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers. Every one of the 826 published occupations is indexed on the Careers hub.