Career Explorer Management
Grows with AI
Gambling managers
Plan, direct, or coordinate gambling operations in a casino. May formulate house rules.
More resilient than most: more resilient than 61% of the 831 careers we score. AI exposure is high (the Bureau of Labor Statistics rates it high), and US jobs are projected to change by +3.6% by 2035, faster than average. The work leans on ethical judgement and emotional intelligence.
AI can help with many of the tasks, and demand is still growing. Being fluent with AI is the edge here.
- Median pay (2025)
- $93,220
- Job growth to 2035
- +3.6%
- Openings a year
- 600
- People doing it (2025)
- 5,600
- Usual route in
- High school diploma
Where people already use AI for this work
- Respond to customer problems or inquiries
- Explain regulations, policies, or procedures
- Maintain safety or security
From Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025).
Work AI rarely helps with
- Monitor resources or inventories
- Develop organizational policies, systems, or processes
- Direct security or safety activities or operations
What the work looks like
- 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.
- Circulate among gaming tables to ensure that operations are conducted properly, that dealers follow house rules, or that players are not cheating.
- Track supplies of money to tables and perform any required paperwork.
- Set and maintain a bank and table limit for each game.
From O*NET 31.0, US Department of Labor.
Careers using similar strengths, with a stronger outlook
- First-line supervisors of personal service workersGrows with AI, Index 62, +6.3%
- First-line supervisors of security workersHuman edge, growing, Index 80, +3.7%
- Occupational health and safety techniciansHuman edge, growing, Index 92, +19.4%
- Food service managersHuman edge, growing, Index 87, +5.8%
Also known as: Casino Manager, Casino Shift Manager, Slot Manager, Table Games Manager, Casino Operations Manager, Gaming Manager, Pit Manager, Shift Manager.
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Sources: US Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections 2025 to 2035; O*NET 31.0; Microsoft Research (2025); Anthropic Economic Index (2026); Eloundou and colleagues (Science, 2024); Felten, Raj and Seamans (2023). How we score. Updated 12 October 2026.