Occupation / job
Gambling Surveillance Officers and Gambling Investigators
Median annual pay. Half earn less than this.
Hourly at a standard 2,080-hour year. We do not yet have unpaid-time or cost data for this, so this is not an adjusted figure.
The middle half. A quarter earn below this range.
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 · view
What this figure cannot tell you
It covers people EMPLOYED in this occupation. Anyone who trained for it and was never hired is not in the median above, and neither is anyone doing the work self-employed. No verified count of qualified people exists for this occupation, so this page shows none rather than an estimate. Why that matters · The occupations where we could source it
Who this suits
At $43,370 against $50,020, this pays $554 a month less than the typical American job. Below the midpoint but within reach of it: the spread and the floor below decide whether that description flatters Gambling Surveillance Officers and Gambling Investigators or not.
Employment as Gambling Surveillance Officers and Gambling Investigators is 9,520 nationally. At that size a large city holds a working market and a small one holds almost none, so where you live changes the number of employers available to you by an order of magnitude.
These roles suit people who can be reliably present and observant for a whole shift, in work where nothing happening is the intended outcome.
No verified preparation time is on file for Gambling Surveillance Officers and Gambling Investigators. The wage survey behind every figure on this page asks employers what they pay, not what they required, so the honest answer here is that we do not know.
Who should not do this
A quarter of Gambling Surveillance Officers and Gambling Investigators earn under $36,270 and a quarter over $49,210 — 1.4x, or $12,940 apart. Narrow spreads usually mean a pay schedule, which is stability bought at the price of upside.
A quarter of the field earns under $36,270 — $13,750 below the $50,020 the typical American job pays. That is the number to plan on for a first year, not the midpoint.
Avoid it if rotating shifts damage you. The sleep disruption outlasts the career for a meaningful share of people who do this.
No failure rate is shown, and the absence is deliberate: the 9,520 figure counts people already working as Gambling Surveillance Officers and Gambling Investigators, not everyone who trained and never got hired. Without a licensing register to divide by, a rate here would be an invented denominator.
What the spread tells you
Top quarter to bottom quarter is 1.4x. In a band that narrow, $43,370 is a genuinely representative number for Gambling Surveillance Officers and Gambling Investigators and the main variable left is where you live.
The middle half of this field earns between $36,270 and $49,210. That is $12,940 of range, with $43,370 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.
Getting to $49,210, the 75th percentile, is worth $5,840 a year more than the $43,370 midpoint and $12,940 more than the $36,270 a quarter of Gambling Surveillance Officers and Gambling Investigators settle for.
There is $7,100 between $36,270 and $43,370, and $5,840 between $43,370 and $49,210. The lower half of the range is marginally the longer one — worth knowing if you would be entering Gambling Surveillance Officers and Gambling Investigators at the bottom of it.
On a 2,080-hour year the midpoint for Gambling Surveillance Officers and Gambling Investigators is $20.85 an hour. The quarters sit at $17.43 and $23.65, and the all-occupation midpoint at $24.04.
What these figures are, and what they are not
The $43,370 figure is what employers pay employees. It is before tax and before deductions, it excludes the self-employed entirely, and it says nothing about anyone who does this work on their own account.
With no unpaid-hours or cost data for Gambling Surveillance Officers and Gambling Investigators, the hourly figure is $43,370 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.
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