Statewide Economic Benefits
Cardrooms throughout California provide the largest source of local tax revenue for their communities, and support surrounding businesses and local communities.
Many cardrooms provide the largest source of local tax revenue to their communities.
Much of the tax revenue generated by cardrooms is appropriated to California cities’ public safety programs, providing tens of millions of dollars for life-saving services carried out by local police and fire departments.
Much of the tax revenue generated by cardrooms is appropriated to California cities’ public safety programs, providing tens of millions of dollars for life-saving services carried out by local police and fire departments.
“$2 Billion in Annual
Economic Activity”
More than 23,000 Californians and their families statewide depend on the stable source of employment and living-wage jobs afforded by their local cardrooms. In Los Angeles County alone, cardrooms provide nearly 10,000 living-wage jobs for the county’s residents, as well as neighboring areas.
The positive impact of the cardrooms goes well beyond their own employees, stimulating local restaurants, shopping centers and entertainment scenes, which support additional jobs and a more robust economic permanency. The cardroom industry generates more than $2 billion in annual economic activity and contributes hundreds of millions of dollars to local communities and the state in tax revenue.
The positive impact of the cardrooms goes well beyond their own employees, stimulating local restaurants, shopping centers and entertainment scenes, which support additional jobs and a more robust economic permanency. The cardroom industry generates more than $2 billion in annual economic activity and contributes hundreds of millions of dollars to local communities and the state in tax revenue.
The cardroom industry generates more than $2 billion in annual economic activity and contributes hundreds of millions of dollars to local communities and the state in tax revenue.
Cardroom tax revenues help communities fund important local services such as park maintenance and local road repairs and cardrooms have a long history of contributing to charities and providing thousands of dollars to scholarship programs that afford local residents the opportunity to achieve their educational goals.
Cardroom tax revenues help communities fund important local services such as park maintenance and local road repairs and cardrooms have a long history of contributing to charities and providing thousands of dollars to scholarship programs that afford local residents the opportunity to achieve their educational goals.