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West Virginia

Regulatory Agency

West Virginia Lottery
PO Box 2067
Charleston, WV 25327
304-558-0500
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West Virginia Commercial Casinos
Current # of Operating Casinos 5
Casino Format Racetrack casinos with publicly-run video lottery terminals and table games with distributions to operators and one land-based commercial casino
Casino Employees 4,351
Casino Employee Wages $134.68 million
Gross Casino Gaming Revenue $948.81 million
Gaming Tax Revenue $402.50 million
How Taxes Spent Education, senior citizens, tourism
Legalization Date 1994
First Casino Opening Date 1994
Revenue Retained by Operator

47.11%

Mode of Legalization Local option vote, legislative action
Visitor Volume Data not available

Note: West Virginia wage and employment data includes four of five properties, as one declined to participate in the data collection. 2011 data was used for two properties because they declined to provide 2012 information.

Sources: West Virginia Lottery, individual properties

 

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