Pa. Gaming Board Issues Diversity, Annual Reports

In recent weeks, the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board released two important documents – its Diversity Report and Annual Report. Each report contains information on the state's casino industry as a whole in addition to local information on .

(Both reports are attached to this story as PDF documents.)

Diversity Report

The 2010-11 Diversity Report, required under the Pennsylvania Race Horse Development and Gaming Act, contains information on the activities of Pennsylvania casinos to meet the goals of enhanced representation of diverse groups in the gaming industry and the creation of quality living wage jobs for state residents.

The report provides statewide and individual casino statistics on:

• Employment trends by race and gender
• Construction and non-construction expenditures with minority businesses
• Charitable donations
• Number of Pennsylvanians employed for table games
• Racial breakdown for Executive/Management/Professional staff

“With the addition of table games last year casinos have shown a commitment to extending job opportunities to minorities,” said Mozelle Daniels, the Board’s Director of Diversity. “Additionally, casinos continue to show their commitment to local businesses, Minority Business Enterprises and Women Business Enterprises by purchasing more than $124 million in goods and services from them in the last year.”

Some highlights from the report:

• Of the 2,083 Executive/ Management /Professional staff: 65 percent are male; 35 percent are female; and 19 percent are minorities
• Of the 15,064 casino employees: 13,062 are Pennsylvanians (87 percent); 6,467 are female (43 percent); 8,597 are male (57 percent); and 25 percent are minorities
• Casinos donated over $6 million in community outreach and charitable donations
• Casinos spent more than $400 million with service providers including $105 million with local businesses and $19 million with minority/women owned businesses

The report has information on diversity at Parx Casino.

As of June 30, the casino had 2,045 employees of which 1,608 (79 percent) are Pennsylvania residents. Also, 66 percent of table game employees are state residents. Additionally, executive/management/professional staff consists of 156 individuals (male 72 percent, female 28 percent, minorities 15 percent).

In 2010, Parx spent over $9 million with minority/women owned service providers and nearly $19 million with local businesses. They also had more than $4.2 million in charitable donations/community outreach.

“We are proud to lead the industry in diversity and inclusion as indicated in the Pennsylvania Gaming study,” said Ron Davis, chief diversity officer at Parx. “We believe that we are a strong business because diversity and inclusion are important and  fundamental elements of our business.”

Annual Report

The 2010-2011 Annual Report highlights the continued growth of licensed gaming in Pennsylvania in 2010 through the first half of 2011. The annual publication also includes accomplishments of all PGCB Bureaus including statistics on licensing and gaming revenues.

Since November 2006 when the first legalized casino opened, the Pennsylvania gaming industry has returned more than $5 billion in to citizens through tax and licensing revenues generated by slot machines and table games, while creating over 15,000 jobs, a release stated. The state currently has 10 operating casinos.

According to the report, Parx Casino’s slot machine revenue from July 1, 2010 through June 30, 2011 was $380 million, which provided over $210 million in taxes, assessments and other fees.  The casino’s table games had gross revenue of $90.6 million, which provided $14.6 million in state and local taxes.

The report said Bensalem received a total of $10.4 million from both slots and tables. Bucks County received nearly $8.4 million.