The recent American Gaming Association’s State of the State report on commercial gaming shows that state and local governments in Kansas and Missouri benefit from gaming taxes from casinos in the Kansas City area.
The 2019 report shows that in Kansas and Missouri state and local governments collected $550 million from gaming in 2018. The Kansas City area casinos that serve both states reported revenues of $796 million that year.
Total commercial gaming revenue from the four casinos in Kansas was $110 million, a nearly 5 percent increase from the year before. Those casinos have 3,685 employees who collected $139 million in salaries.
In Missouri, which has 13 casinos, gaming revenue increased 1 percent to $446.5 million. It was the fifth largest source of state revenue. The state’s casinos employ 20,000 people who earned $884 million in salaries.
The Kansas City metro area ranked 13th nationally in commercial casino revenues according to the survey.
