Gambling Managers
Hospitality and TourismO*NET 11-9071.00United States
Plan, direct, or coordinate gambling operations in a casino. May formulate house rules.
- Median annual earnings
- $89,845
- Projected change
- +1.4%
- Typical education
- High school diploma or less
- Employment
- 4.49K jobs
50th percentile, United States
2025 to 2035
56.5% of the workforce
Growing to 4.56K by 2035
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The work
What gambling managers do
Tasks reported for this occupation, ordered by how often they come up in the role.
- Resolve customer complaints regarding problems, such as payout errors.
- Remove suspected cheaters, such as card counters or other players who may have systems that shift the odds of winning to their favor.
- Explain and interpret house rules, such as game rules or betting limits.
- Track supplies of money to tables and perform any required paperwork.
- Maintain familiarity with all games used at a facility, as well as strategies or tricks employed in those games.
- Monitor staffing levels to ensure that games and tables are adequately staffed for each shift, arranging for staff rotations and breaks and locating substitute employees as necessary.
- Prepare work schedules and station arrangements and keep attendance records.
- Train new workers or evaluate their performance.
- Market or promote the casino to bring in business.
- Interview and hire workers.
- Direct the distribution of complimentary hotel rooms, meals, or other discounts or free items given to players, based on their length of play and betting totals.
- Establish policies on issues, such as the type of gambling offered and the odds, the extension of credit, or the serving of food and beverages.
Pay and outlook
What the job pays and where it is heading
Annual earnings range
Reported earnings by percentile, United States
- 10th percentile
- $52,835
- 25th percentile
- $68,936
- 50th percentile
- $89,845
- 75th percentile
- $120,481
- 90th percentile
- $165,170
The gold marker shows the median. Half earn more than $89,845 and half earn less.
Employment outlook
2025 to 2035 projection
+1.4%average or slower
20254,493 jobs
2035 projected4,558 jobs
65 more positions over the decade, before replacement hiring.
Preparation
Education levels
What people currently working in the career hold. These are not entry requirements.
- High school diploma or less
- 56.5%
- Some college
- 30%
- Certificate
- 6.7%
- Bachelor's degree
- 6.7%
Skills
Skills employers ask for
Technical skills appearing most often in job postings for this occupation.
How the work gets done
Core competencies
Broad capabilities associated with strong performance in this occupation.
- Management of Personnel Resources
- Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
- Critical Thinking
- Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
- Monitoring
- Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
- Speaking
- Talking to others to convey information effectively.
- Coordination
- Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
- Social Perceptiveness
- Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
- Service Orientation
- Actively looking for ways to help people.
- Time Management
- Managing one's own time and the time of others.
- Active Listening
- Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Complex Problem Solving
- Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
- Writing
- Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
- Reading Comprehension
- Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
- Instructing
- Teaching others how to do something.
- Persuasion
- Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
- Active Learning
- Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
- Negotiation
- Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
- Learning Strategies
- Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
- Mathematics
- Using mathematics to solve problems.
- Systems Analysis
- Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
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Job titles and employers
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Top employers
- 01Town Pump Incorporated121 postings
- 02Caesars Entertainment56 postings
- 03Ballys Hotel & Casino38 postings
- 04Boyd Gaming37 postings
- 05Round One Entertainment31 postings
- 06Station Casinos31 postings
- 07Churchill Downs29 postings
- 08Delaware North25 postings
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- 11Bettingjobs.com22 postings
- 12French Lick Resort22 postings
- 13Landry's18 postings
- 14Penn Entertainment18 postings
- 15Desert Diamond Casino14 postings
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- 17Hollywood Casino Columbus10 postings
- 18Monarch Casino & Resort10 postings
- 19US Bank10 postings
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