The Datum Report

Occupation 1256 · Managers, directors and senior officials

Betting shop and gambling establishment managers

Half of full-time betting shop and gambling establishment managers in the UK earn more than £31,961 a year, and half earn less.

Betting shop managers plan, organise, direct and co-ordinate the activities of betting shops and gambling establishments.

How people enter it

There are no formal qualifications for entry although entrants may be required to pass a maths test and have relevant experience. NVQs in Gambling Operations at level 2 and 3 are available.

What the work involves

• co-ordinates the work of other staff, plans work schedules and assigns tasks and responsibilities
• maintains the accounts of betting shops and manages the budget
• determines staffing, material, financial and other short- and long-term needs.
• ensures compliance with relevant legislation and regulations
• provides customer service and deals with customer complaints
• promotes the betting shop and generates new business

Also called

Betting shop manager · Bingo hall manager · Casino manager

What it pays

How pay has changed

Median gross annual pay for betting shop and gambling establishment managers, full-time employees, 2023 to 2025. Each point is that year's ASHE April snapshot as published — revisions are not backfilled into earlier years, and a year ONS withheld is a gap rather than a joined line.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Table

Pay by region

Median gross annual pay for full-time employees, ranked, against the UK figure. 1 of 11 regions are published: ONS withholds a cell where the survey sample cannot support it, and those are shown as gaps rather than dropped — an absent region is not a region without the work in it.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Period 2025. Table

Every regional figure

ONS does not publish occupational pay below region. Cells the survey could not support are shown as withheld, with its reason — adding a region split to a specific occupation leaves roughly a tenth of cells publishable.

Common questions

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