How much does a table games dealer at a typical casino make?

Answer 1

This is a tough one. There are many different salaries for table game employees, and I am not including Poker Dealers in this because they go for their own tokes. Your average hourly rate is somewhere in the realm of 6 to 7 dollars an hour. However, you are not working for an Hourly salary, you are working for Tokes. Try looking at the Toke page at www.thedealersnews.com

Las Vegas strip Dealers make 35,000 to 98,000 per year

Off Strip station and Coast average around 38 thousand per year.

High end Off strip do around 60,000 per year.

There are various casinos that let you go for your own tokes in California and other states that dealers pull up to 120,000 per year or more. This depends on the dealer.

Rule of thumb. The higher the clientelle (high rollers, whales etc) the higher the tokes. This results in high wages for casino dealers.

As a dealer in one of the local casinos in Vegas, I can confirm the above mentioned information. Wages are mostly at the stae minimum ($7.55 for NV as of 7/1/09) but this could be a little lower if you also receive health insurance. The better paying gigs are in the top casinos on the Strip (Wynn, Venetian, Bellagio, Hard Rock), but very few hire experienced dealers fulltime for the moment. Only extra board shifts are rarely available. As a novice dealer out of a gaming school, you will start in a low-paying job in a very insignificant casino, but get your experience in for 6 months and try to move up. Try also to learn craps, as there seems to be a constant shortage of experience dice dealers, but DO NOT bluff your way into a job as your inexperience will be noticed within minutes by any good floor.

Answer 2

Full time poker dealers make between 40-50k per year total. No poker dealer works a full 40 hour week and they get paid minimum wage plus tips. A really good night is $200 in tips.

I have been dealing poker for 6 months now, and in 6 months i made about $30k. So i am not sure where the person above got the 40-50k a year total. I should only increase what i make in the next 6 months because I am a much better dealer now. This was my first poker dealing job, so i was pretty slow the first few months. So i should easily make 60k for the year. A really good night is 275-to well over 300 a night in tips (plus we make $5/ hr from the casino). A bad night would be 150 at the very least per night( 8 hour shift). On average you can take home 220 per night easily(8 hour shift). Also if you are a female you will be making more from my experience. My female coworkers almost always make more per night in tips than the men .

It all depends on how good your mechanics are and how smooth you run your table. Also i average about 65 to 70 hours per paycheck(biweekly). I only deal about 5 hours per shift, with about 3 hours of breaks. Oh and i work Grave, which makes the least amount of money at my casino. All in all it is a great job, not many jobs can you make $60K/yr only being at work an average of 34 hours per week and only actually working(dealing) 20 hours per week. -Updated Jan. 2011.

For the above answers, it would be helpful if you would date your answers so that people can use that as a reference. I have been hearing from different dealers (not saying where to protect the casino and the dealers) and they are working FT 40+ hrs making at least $200 a night. What shift you work takes effect into how much money you make as well as working weekends/holidays/etc. You also have to take into effect the knowledge of the game, experience, speed, control of the table, and personality* of the dealer. Even at $200 a day/night, and they were all "slow" days/nights, at 5 days/nights a week, that still is $52k a year. Most dealers from what I have been hearing, and the casino I had gone to, were taking home paychecks (after taxes*) that averaged around $2000-$2400 biweekly. Which was roughly $1000 more than the other dealers that shared tips at the table games (blackjack, roulette, craps, baccarat, etc.) These dealers I have been hearing from have been dealing for less than a year. I only assume that they will become stronger dealers over time which may increase their pay overall. I hope that all of this will help you solve questions you may have had.

November 2010

Answer 3

I have been dealing blackjack for almost 15 years and my income has been the national tip wage in each state I have dealt in. Usually around $2.10/hour + tips. I hold my own tips (this means I do not share with other dealers). I believe my efforts should not reflect on others and vice-versa.

Most answers will be given as polite on the subject of tipping and say we appreciate all tips. This is true. However, I believe etiquette should be at least what a waitress/server makes as we are serving you the guest an entertaining time. True some servers deliver your food/drinks incorrectly or with bad timing and thus you might tip them less but I believe there are few guests receiving a sitdown meal who don't tip at all. This is not the norm in blackjack where many entertaining dealers like myself and those who are delivering great winning hands will walk away from a table after a push (time on the table) with absolutely nothing to show for it. My suggestion would be a minimum of $5.00 per guest win, lose or draw when the dealer leaves the table. This says to the dealer thank you for dealing to me and we understand you have no control as to how the cards come out of the shoe. Also, betting for the dealer when the guest is on a winning streak shows the dealer they appreciate the luck that is coming to them.

Answer 4

5-10% is good.

If the dealers keep their own tips, I would tip closer to 10%. When they keep their own tips they really appreciate it more, than dealers who split.

It's best to tip as you go. In the end, your not going to have any money left to tip, if you wait until the end. If you play only one hand and leave, then 5-10% is good.

You should tip a dealer a few bucks every now and then but if you winning it should vary from 3-12 percent. 3 percent is not like 15 percent at a restaurant so dont think of this as you do with a waitress's 15-20 percent. 3 percent if they suck, 5-12 percent depending on if you going to stay and gamble some more and keep tipping or if they were good dealers. I personally don't stick by a percent it depends on how easy the win was and etc. Just always tip if you bet a few times and win or if you stay at the table for a while even if your not winning. Amount depends, dont feel like you have to put a certain amount.

Answer 5

In Nevada, the minimum wage. Dealers make their money in tips. In a good house they can make as much as/or more than $75,000/yr in tips plus wages. It does not necessarily depend on how good a single dealer is, it is in the overall performance and attitude of the dealers and the generosity of the players.

Answer 6

In Las Vegas, Nevada, the average annual salary for a blackjack dealer is $20,000. The average annual salary in Atlantic City, New Jersey is $28,000.

Answer 7

It's not much - around $15,000. Dealers, like waiters and bartenders, make their money from tips. Don't forget to tip the dealers!

Answer 8

60,00-70,000