Question of the Day - 30 May 2017

MGM Resorts International is the single largest employer  in Nevada — and no wonder. MGM Grand alone has a staff of 7,571 — that would rank it as the state’s 12^th largest “town,” more than the entire population of Winnemucca. (And if you added all the hotel guests, casino players, and other visitors to the staff present at any one time there, you’d probably have the equivalent of Nevada’s sixth or seventh largest city, close in population to Fernley or Elko.

Aria isn’t too far behind, with 7,398 employees.

Wynn Resorts estimates that, between Wynn Las Vegas and Encore, it has 12,000 employees.

The Venetian and Palazzo’s grander scale might lead one to expect larger work forces, but they get by with a mere 9,000 employees.

Caesars Palace employs 6,076.

At the independent Cosmopolitan, the approximately 5,000 employees are called “costars.”

Station Casinos doesn’t break out its workforce , simply referring to its aggregate 14,000 team members, spread over myriad Las Vegas Valley properties great and small.

Boyd Gaming was a little more specific, for example estimating an Orleans workforce of 2,600 and roughly 1,000 on the Sam’s Town payroll.

Planet Hollywood has 2,421 on staff.

So you could literally say it takes a village to run a casino, which is part of why they’re increasingly popular sources of economic stimulus, whether it’s in Springfield, Massachusetts, or Osaka, Japan.