The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB) has released its 19th annual diversity report. It offers some valuable insights in different areas. According to the report, licensed casinos in the state employed 15,242 people as of June 30, 2026. The report also covers executive roles, supplier spending, and community giving. What’s worth noticing is that it shows wide gaps between properties at the top of the org chart.
Largest property workforce
Parx Casino in Bensalem had 1,872 workers, the biggest headcount of any licensed property in Pennsylvania. Wind Creek Bethlehem came next with 1,589 employees, followed by Rivers Casino Pittsburgh at 1,496. The distance between first and second place is 283 people. Rivers Casino Pittsburgh also shrank over the year, with 79 fewer employees.
Parx also had 128 fewer employees than a year earlier. Its Shippensburg location sits at the other end of the list as the smallest casino in the state, with 212 employees.
Statewide workforce
The report was prepared by Director of Diversity Mozelle E. Daniels under Section 1212 of the Pennsylvania Race Horse Development and Gaming Act. The 15,242 total is down from 15,840 a year earlier, a loss of 598 jobs or 3.8%. About 90% of the workers are Pennsylvania residents, which works out to 13,786 people, and that share did not change from the previous year.
Women and racial minorities each make up about 42% of all casino employees. Table games operations employ 4,690 people, 86% of them state residents. Residency varies by property. Mohegan Pennsylvania, and several smaller casinos report 99%, while Rivers Casino Philadelphia is at 79% and Live! Casino Philadelphia sits at 74%, or 986 of its 1,341 employees.
The newest property in the area, Happy Valley Casino, opened on April 27, 2026. It ended the reporting period with 289 employees, 99% of them Pennsylvania residents.
Executive gaps
The numbers change at the senior level. Across 2,359 executive, management, and professional positions, women hold 39% and racial minorities hold 28%. These positions account for roughly 15% of all jobs counted. Both figures fall below the 42% benchmark for the workforce as a whole, representing a 14-percentage-point gap for racial minorities and a 3-percentage-point gap for women.
Property by property, the spread is large. Racial minority representation among executives reaches 53% at Harrah’s Philadelphia and Valley Forge Casino Resort. It is 10% at Presque Isle Downs and 5% at Live! Casino Pittsburgh, the latter being about a tenth of the top figure. The only property where women hold a majority of executive roles, at 52%, is Casino at Nemacolin. It’s common to hear from employers about the benefits of diverse teams, such as a wider range of ideas in decision-making. So this report serves as a reality check on whether the executive level is keeping pace.
Supplier diversity
Retail casinos spent about $753 million with outside businesses in the fiscal year, a drop of nearly 10%. Roughly 31% of that went to suppliers in the host county or a neighboring one, which leaves about 69% going to businesses farther away.
The report lists several measures for minority-owned, women-owned, diverse, and small businesses. They include updated supplier databases, simpler bidding, faster payment, and more mentoring.
Each licensee also files an annual diversity and hiring plan as part of its Statement of Conditions. Mentoring small firms is a familiar model in social entrepreneurship, where the goal is a return for the community as well as for the owner.
Community giving
Casino donations and community support reached $15.1 million in the 2025/26 fiscal year, up from $12.9 million the year before, an increase of about 17% in one year. The figure covers donations and community support from the licensed casinos. Contributions since 2006 now add up to more than $241 million.
