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title: "Gambling Manager"
description: "Plan, direct, or coordinate gambling operations in a casino. May formulate house rules."
canonical: "https://nuecareer.com/careers/gambling-manager"
last-updated: "2026-10-09T10:57:55.138Z"
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# Gambling Manager

**Category:** Management · **SOC code:** 11-9071 · **O\*NET-SOC code:** 11-9071.00

Plan, direct, or coordinate gambling operations in a casino. May formulate house rules.

Also advertised as: Casino Manager; Casino Operations Manager; Casino Shift Manager; Gaming Manager; Pit Manager; Shift Manager; Slot Manager; Slot Operations Manager.

## At a glance

- **Median annual wage:** $93,220 (BLS OEWS, May 2025)
- **Median hourly wage:** $44.82/hr
- **Wage range (10th–90th percentile):** $55,960 to $164,350, with the middle half between $72,570 and $122,990
- **Total US employment:** 5,030
- **Typical entry education:** High school
- **Preparation required:** Little or no preparation — O\*NET rates this "Job Zone 1-2: Very Little to Some Preparation Needed"
- **Projected growth:** +3.6% over 2025–2035 (BLS EP, 2025–2035)
- **Annual job openings:** 600 openings a year
- **AI-resilience score:** 40/100 — a NueCareer heuristic over O\*NET work activities and context, not a BLS or O\*NET figure

## Pay

National wage distribution, BLS OEWS, May 2025, across 5,030 US jobs.

| Percentile | Annual wage |
| --- | --- |
| 10th | $55,960 |
| 25th | $72,570 |
| 50th (median) | $93,220 |
| 75th | $122,990 |
| 90th | $164,350 |
| Mean (average) | $103,050 |

### Pay by state

The 15 highest-paying states, by median annual wage. The cost-of-living-adjusted column divides the state median by that state's BEA Regional Price Parity, so the columns answer different questions: the first is what the job pays there, the second is what that pay buys there.

| State | Median annual wage | Cost-of-living adjusted | Employment |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| TX | $106,670 | $109,904 | 60 |
| WA | $106,450 | $99,474 | 130 |
| KY | $105,340 | $116,838 | 30 |
| NY | $102,350 | $94,838 | 180 |
| MI | $101,860 | $105,865 | 190 |
| NJ | $101,470 | $93,259 | 130 |
| NM | $101,260 | $109,812 | 70 |
| MA | $100,460 | $94,991 | 40 |
| OH | $99,650 | $107,412 | 110 |
| CA | $99,230 | $89,622 | 620 |
| IN | $98,920 | $105,991 | 110 |
| MS | $97,170 | $111,750 | 160 |
| FL | $96,180 | $93,005 | 230 |
| PA | $94,800 | $97,159 | 170 |
| NV | $91,250 | $91,269 | 790 |

13 more states with published wage data are omitted here. The full table for all 28 states is at https://nuecareer.com/careers/gambling-manager/salary-by-state, or as JSON at https://nuecareer.com/api/v1/careers/gambling-manager.

## Outlook

BLS projects employment to move from 5,600 in the 2025–2035 base year to 5,800 by the end of the cycle — a gain of 200 jobs, or +3.6%. About as fast as average: 3.6% against 3.5% projected for all occupations over the same cycle. About 600 openings a year are expected on average, counting openings from growth as well as from workers leaving the occupation permanently. Source: BLS EP, 2025–2035.

## How to get in

- **Typical entry education:** High school diploma or equivalent (BLS Employment Projections).
- **Preparation level:** Little or no preparation — O\*NET's preparation band for this occupation is "Job Zone 1-2: Very Little to Some Preparation Needed".
- **Related work experience typically required:** Less than 5 years.
- **Typical on-the-job training:** None.

### Education people in this job actually hold

O\*NET surveys incumbents, so this distribution describes who is in the job today and can differ from the BLS entry requirement above.

| Education level | Share of workers |
| --- | --- |
| High School Diploma or the equivalent (such as a GED) | 56.5% |
| Some College Courses | 30.0% |
| Post-Secondary Certificate | 6.7% |
| Bachelor's Degree | 6.7% |

## What the work involves

- 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.
- Resolve customer complaints regarding problems, such as payout errors.
- Train new workers or evaluate their performance.
- Explain and interpret house rules, such as game rules or betting limits.
- Remove suspected cheaters, such as card counters or other players who may have systems that shift the odds of winning to their favor.
- Maintain familiarity with all games used at a facility, as well as strategies or tricks employed in those games.
- Prepare work schedules and station arrangements and keep attendance records.
- Market or promote the casino to bring in business.

## Skills and knowledge

### Essential skills

- Critical Thinking — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Speaking — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Monitoring — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Active Listening — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Writing — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Reading Comprehension — importance 3.5 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Active Learning — importance 3.5 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Learning Strategies — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Transferable skills

These are the skills that carry into other occupations, and they drive the related-occupation and career-change rankings on this site.

- Management of Personnel Resources — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Social Perceptiveness — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Coordination — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Service Orientation — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Complex Problem Solving — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Judgment and Decision Making — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Time Management — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Persuasion — importance 3.5 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Knowledge areas

- Customer and Personal Service — importance 4.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- English Language — importance 4.2 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Administration and Management — importance 4.2 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Mathematics — importance 4.2 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Personnel and Human Resources — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Administrative — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Abilities

- Oral Expression — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Oral Comprehension — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Inductive Reasoning — importance 3.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Problem Sensitivity — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Deductive Reasoning — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Speech Recognition — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

## Who it suits

O\*NET rates every occupation on the six Holland (RIASEC) interest areas, on a 1–7 scale. This occupation's strongest areas are Enterprising (E), Conventional (C).

| Interest area | Score (1–7) |
| --- | --- |
| E — Enterprising | 6.74 |
| C — Conventional | 5.46 |
| S — Social | 2.86 |
| R — Realistic | 2.80 |
| I — Investigative | 1.35 |
| A — Artistic | 1.09 |

### Personality fit

These scores are **derived by NueCareer**, not published by any government agency: they are cosine similarities between a personality type's trait profile and this occupation's O\*NET interest and work-style ratings, expressed 0–100. Treat them as a starting point for exploration, not as evidence that a type belongs in a job.

| Type | Fit score (0–100) |
| --- | --- |
| ESTJ | 84.5 |
| ESFJ | 80.4 |
| ENTJ | 65.7 |
| ISTJ | 63.7 |
| ISFJ | 63.2 |

Best-fitting types: ESTJ, ESFJ.

## Related occupations

O\*NET's primary related occupations, in its own ranked order.

- [First-Line Supervisor of Gambling Services Workers](https://nuecareer.com/careers/first-line-supervisor-of-gambling-services-workers) — median $63,820
- [Gambling and Sports Book Writer and Runner](https://nuecareer.com/careers/gambling-and-sports-book-writer-and-runner) — median $34,980
- [Gambling Surveillance Officer and Gambling Investigator](https://nuecareer.com/careers/gambling-surveillance-officer-and-gambling-investigator) — median $43,370
- [Lodging Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/lodging-manager) — median $69,250
- [First-Line Supervisor of Office and Administrative Support Workers](https://nuecareer.com/careers/first-line-supervisor-of-office-and-administrative-support-workers) — median $69,500
- [Referee](https://nuecareer.com/careers/referee) — median $40,710
- [First-Line Supervisor of Non-Retail Sales Workers](https://nuecareer.com/careers/first-line-supervisor-of-non-retail-sales-workers) — median $87,520
- [General and Operations Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/general-and-operations-manager) — median $105,770
- [Financial Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/financial-manager) — median $166,570
- [Food Service Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/food-service-manager) — median $69,390

## Sources

- **O\*NET** — O\*NET 31.0 Database, August 2026. https://www.onetcenter.org/database.html
- **BLS OEWS** — BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. https://www.bls.gov/oes/
- **BLS EP** — BLS Employment Projections, Table 1.2, 2025–2035. https://www.bls.gov/emp/
- **BLS OOH** — BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2025–2035 edition. https://www.bls.gov/ooh/
- **BEA RPP** — BEA Regional Price Parities by State, 2024. https://www.bea.gov/data/prices-inflation/regional-price-parities-state-and-metro-area

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