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Casino Hotel Revenue Benchmark

Hotels operating a casino on the premises, combining lodging, gaming, food service and entertainment in one property.

NAICS 721120, 2022 editionUnited States data by defaultSources and dates shown

Average Casino Hotel Revenue per Year 2022 Economic Census

The 2022 Economic Census counts every casino hotel with paid employees and publishes their combined annual receipts. Dividing one by the other gives the average annual revenue per employer establishment below.

≈$189,822,000 /year

Average annual gross revenue per employer establishment

400

Employer establishments in the United States, 2022

as published $75.9 billion

Combined annual gross revenue of employer establishments, 2022

How this is calculated: about $75.9 billion in combined annual receipts divided by 400 employer establishments works out to an average annual revenue of $189,822,000 per employer establishment. This is an arithmetic average of very large properties, not the revenue of a typical or median casino hotel, and very large destination properties can pull an arithmetic average upward.

Scope: Casino Hotels, NAICS 721120. Classified separately in group 7211: 721110 Hotels (except Casino Hotels) and Motels; 721191 Bed-and-breakfast inns; 721199 All Other Traveler Accommodation. Nothing outside that code is counted on this page.

Source US Census Bureau, 2022 Economic Census, Summary Statistics (ECNBASIC): ESTAB, RCPTOT and PAYANN by NAICS · Vintage 2022 Economic Census · Calculation BusinessNES · Accessed July 2026

Employer Establishments at Year Five Industry group

Traveler Accommodation, NAICS 7211, the 2018 starting count compared with the count of five-year-old establishments in 2023.

66.6%the year-five count as a share of the starting count

Five-year establishment continuation benchmarkLine chart of industry continuation: 90.1 percent at 1 year, 83.9 percent at 2 years, 79.9 percent at 3 years, 74.8 percent at 4 years, 66.6 percent at 5 years. 4,268 establishments first reported paid employment in 2018; BusinessNES calculation from Census BDS.100%75%50%25%0%2014-2018 cohort range: 65.5 to 67.9 percentStart: 100 percent, the starting count1 year: 90.1 percent of the starting count2 years: 83.9 percent of the starting count3 years: 79.9 percent of the starting count4 years: 74.8 percent of the starting count5 years: 66.6 percent of the starting count90.183.979.974.866.6Start1 year2 years3 years4 years5 years4,268 establishments first reported paid employment in 2018; BusinessNES calculation from Census BDS.
Five years on, this industry group counted about 67 establishments aged five for every 100 that first reported paid employment in 2018. Census compares counts by age rather than following the same businesses, so read it as a broad continuation indicator for the industry group, not as a tracked survival rate.

Across the 2014 to 2018 cohorts, five-year results ranged from 65.5 to 67.9 percent. This benchmark covers Traveler Accommodation, NAICS 7211, as a whole, and this category accounts for 400 of the 61,381 employer establishments in it. A count by age is not a survival rate, because the figures compare two headcounts rather than follow one set of businesses.

Payroll as a Share of Revenue Official data

Payroll divided by receipts, both as published for the same year.

MeasureValue
Annual payroll share of receipts, United States≈21%

Payroll share of receipts, Casino Hotels, United States, 2022 Economic Census.

Approximately 21.0 percent of every revenue dollar goes to annual payroll, covering gaming, hotel, food service and entertainment staff in one figure.

Payroll here excludes benefits, employer taxes and owner compensation, and it excludes gaming taxes and license costs, which are substantial in this industry and are not published in this table.

Business Scale and Ownership Structure Official data

How large the average establishment is, and whether the population is independent operators or multi-site companies.

MeasureValue
Paid employees per employer establishment851.2
Employer establishments per firm1.79

Scale and ownership, Casino Hotels, United States, 2022 Economic Census.

The average establishment employed about 851.2 people, which is the clearest measure of the scale involved, and the industry counted 1.8 employer establishments per firm.

These are arithmetic industry averages. They state the size of the average establishment and show that multi-establishment ownership exists. They do not show the distribution of business sizes and they do not measure market concentration.

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Data Source Notice

This product uses the Census Bureau Data API but is not endorsed or certified by the Census Bureau.

Figures above are from the 2022 Economic Census reference year, released by the Census Bureau in 2024 and 2025; markets have moved since.

Questions Worth Asking BusinessNES analysis

Casino Hotel: what an average across 400 establishments can and cannot tell you.

Before you rely on this benchmark

  • How much of the revenue is gaming and how much is the hotel? The Census reports one receipts figure for the whole property, so rooms, food, entertainment and the gaming floor arrive combined. Two properties with identical totals can earn them in completely different proportions, and the mix decides which parts of the business carry the result.
  • What does the state gaming regime allow? Licensing, permitted game types, tax rates on gaming revenue and limits on the number of licenses differ by state and in some places by county. None of that appears in a national average, yet gaming tax rates and license limits can materially shape both the revenue opportunity and the cost structure.
  • How much of the payroll is unionized? Housekeeping, food service and dealers are organized in several major markets and not in others. Contract terms set wage floors and staffing levels for years ahead, which matters in a category where the average property already employs several hundred people.
  • What was spent building the property? Nothing on this page shows construction cost, debt service or the room count behind the revenue. A large destination resort and a smaller regional casino hotel both appear here, and the capital behind them differs by orders of magnitude.
  • How exposed is the property to a single market? Destination properties draw from air travel and conventions, while local casinos depend on drive-in traffic from a defined catchment. The two respond very differently to fuel prices, a new competitor opening nearby, or a change in travel patterns.
  • Who actually operates the property? Ownership, the gaming license and the hotel brand can be held by different parties under management agreements. The Census counts the establishment, not that structure, so the operator taking the risk may not be the company whose name is on the building.

Sources and Methodology

Revenue, establishment counts, payroll, employment and firm counts on this page come from the 2022 Economic Census, Summary Statistics, published by the US Census Bureau. Averages and shares are BusinessNES calculations from those published totals, and each one names the two figures it divides.

The Census counts employer establishments, meaning each property with paid staff. With only 400 establishments in the whole country, one very large property moves the average more than it would in a crowded trade.