Las Vegas Casinos Hold Job Fairs as Economy Gains Steam

Station Casinos is among resort companies holding chore fairs this month inwards the Las Vegas Valley. As the saving recovers from a pandemic-related slump, casinos nationwide are sounding for workers.

Station Casinos is known for its off-Strip casinos catering to locals. The company’s task fairs lead off this calendar week on Tues at Boulder Station Hotel and Casino. On Wednesday, Red River John Rock Casino Resort and Spa is conducting a job fair, followed by another on Th at Green River Valley Ranch Resort Spa and Casino. Each event is from 8 am-7 pm.

The companion is seeking table-game dealers, housekeepers and more. On its website, Station Casinos notes that employees experience approach to loose accompany medical centers, discharge generic drugs, and release life-time insurance. Employees making to a lesser extent than $41,600 take in unloose dental and vision benefits.

In 2020, the yearbook median value compensate for gaming workers nationwide was $27,050, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.

However, as casinos nationwide looking to take chore slots this year, some are offering higher wages, on-the-spot hiring opportunities, and comprehensive benefits packages.

In Arkansas, for instance, Southland Casino Racing inwards Cicily Isabel Fairfield Memphis latterly offered a $1,500 hiring bonus to dealers. The holiday resort and dog cartroad also increased the compensate for salaried, non-tipped employees to $15 an hour.

This industry-wide hiring spree shows no signalize of letting up. The chore ontogeny outlook for gambling religious service workers testament accelerate “much faster than average” through 2029, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics website.

Recovery Underway

At the Mar 2020 oncoming of the coronavirus pandemic, the tourism-related saving inwards Las Vegas fell into steep decline after Gov. Steve Sisolak (D) ordered casinos to close. He allowed them to reopen 11 weeks later inwards early June. With COVID-19 concerns relieve heights nationwide, however, the Las Vegas saving remained flat. McCarran International Airport was land by millions of passengers during the pandemic.

Last year, several Las Vegas casinos unsympathetic their hotel towers because of low-pitched consumer demand. Unemployment in Las Vegas reached 34.2 percent, the highest inward the land for any city with a population of 1 one thousand thousand or more. In April, the jobless grade inwards Las Vegas was 9 percent, endorse highest inwards the US, only in arrears Los Angeles.

With the nationwide rollout of vaccines and stimulus check, the economic outlook has begun to brighten inward Southern Nevada. This spring, Las Vegas had deuce straight months of higher visitant totals. The identification number of passengers using the drome also began to improve.

Sexual Wellness

Other casinos inward the Las Vegas Valley are holding job fairs. The off-Strip AZ Charlie’s on South Decatur Boulevard is conducting a task fair on June 22 from 10 am–2 pm. Signing bonuses of $1,000 are available for some jobs.

Companies connected to the casino industry inwards Las Vegas also are looking for workers.

Pepper, a sexual wellness store with licensed sexologists on staff, is seeking employees. Among the job openings is 1 titled “key holder.” In gain to other duties, this job requires employee to “engage guests in conversations most sexual wellness.”

Pepper is located at Resorts World Las Vegas. The $4.3 1000000000 resort opens June 24 on the Strip where the Stardust Casino formerly stood.