New: the iGaming Pay Transparency Index
Everyone in iGaming agrees, in principle, that salaries should be public. So we went and counted.
The Pay Transparency Index is live: every open job ad on the public career boards of 20 major iGaming employers — 1,377 ads — checked for one thing. Does it say what the job pays?
The headline
7%. That is the share of salaried office ads — engineering, product, compliance, marketing, finance — that state an actual figure.
For hourly frontline roles, betting-shop staff and live-casino dealers, it is 61%.
The industry will happily tell you what it pays a cashier. It will not tell you what it pays an engineer.
Why the two numbers are kept apart
Because blending them is how you get a flattering lie. Hourly work publishes its rate almost everywhere, in every industry — one employer's board alone carries 150+ shop roles at a stated hourly rate. Roll those in with the office jobs and iGaming looks nearly three times more open than it actually is. So the index counts the two populations separately and never quotes a combined figure.
Who does publish
A handful of employers do state pay on salaried roles, and the index names them. The pattern is hard to miss: disclosure clusters around employers with a large US presence, where pay-transparency law leaves them no choice.
The other fourteen employers we surveyed did not put a figure on a single one of their 570 salaried ads.
How to read it
Every number on the page is footnoted with how it was measured and what the method cannot see. It is a floor, not a ceiling: if an employer publishes pay somewhere we did not look, we counted them as silent. We would rather understate the problem than overstate it.
Open the index — and if you want to know what a role should pay before you read a single ad, start with the salary calculator.