Gambling Dealers

Gambling Dealers pays $34,320 where the typical American job pays $50,020 — $15,700 a year short, or $7.54 an hour. That is a liveable wage in a cheap state and a difficult one in an expensive city, and nothing about the national figure tells you which you would be in.

Employment stands at 83,910. Gambling Dealers is common enough to be recruited for continuously and specific enough that the experience travels — the combination that makes changing employer a working pay rise.

This work suits people who like a venue full of people and can keep a crowd moving safely, in hours set by the event rather than by a working week.

How long it takes to become one of the 83,910 people doing this is not something we have a source for. BLS counts and pays them; it does not record how they got there, and we would rather say so than guess.

The quarters sit at $25,810 and $49,180 — 1.9x, or $1,947 a month apart. At that width the occupation contains genuinely different jobs, and which one you are being offered matters more than the title does.

A quarter of this field earns below $25,810 — $12.40 an hour, and $24,210 under the $50,020 national midpoint. A floor that low is the single strongest argument against Gambling Dealers on this page.

Avoid it if you need consistent hours; the schedule follows the calendar of the venue, not your week.

There is no failure rate on this page because there is nothing honest to divide by. BLS counted 83,910 people employed as Gambling Dealers; it did not count the people who trained for it and are doing something else, and a rate built without that denominator would be a number we made up.

A ratio of 1.9x — $25,810 to $49,180 — is wide enough that specialising inside Gambling Dealers pays measurably. $34,320 is the middle of a range you can move within.

The middle half of this field earns between $25,810 and $49,180. That is $23,370 of range, with $34,320 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.

The 75th percentile is $49,180. Reaching it from the $34,320 midpoint is $14,860 a year; reaching it from the $25,810 that the bottom quarter of Gambling Dealers earn is $23,370.

The distance from the midpoint up to $49,180 is $14,860 — well over the $8,510 down to $25,810. Distributions leaning this way mean the median understates what the upper half of Gambling Dealers earns, and half the field is in that upper half.

Converted to an hourly rate over a full-time year: $12.40 at the bottom quarter, $16.50 at the midpoint, $23.64 at the top quarter. The typical American job works out at $24.04 on the same basis.