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Summary Job Description | Tasks | |||
Operate table games. Stand or sit behind table and operate games of chance by dispensing the appropriate number of cards or blocks to players, or operating other gaming equipment. Distribute winnings or collect players' money or chips. May compare the house's hand against players' hands. | Exchange paper currency for playing chips or coin money. | |||
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Pay winnings or collect losing bets as established by the rules and procedures of a specific game. | ||||
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Deal cards to house hands, and compare these with players' hands to determine winners, as in black jack. | ||||
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Conduct gambling games such as dice, roulette, cards, or keno, following all applicable rules and regulations. | ||||
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Check to ensure that all players have placed bets before play begins. | ||||
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Stand behind a gaming table and deal the appropriate number of cards to each player. | ||||
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Inspect cards and equipment to be used in games to ensure that they are in good condition. | ||||
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Start and control games and gaming equipment, and announce winning numbers or colors. | ||||
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Open and close cash floats and game tables. | ||||
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Compute amounts of players' wins or losses, or scan winning tickets presented by patrons to calculate the amount of money won. | ||||
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Apply rule variations to card games such as poker, in which players bet on the value of their hands. | ||||
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Receive, verify, and record patrons' cash wagers. | ||||
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Answer questions about game rules and casino policies. | ||||
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Refer patrons to gaming cashiers to collect winnings. | ||||
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Work as part of a team of dealers in games such as baccarat or craps. | ||||
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Participate in games for gambling establishments to provide the minimum complement of players at a table. | ||||
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Seat patrons at gaming tables. | ||||
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Prepare collection reports for submission to supervisors. | ||||
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Monitor gambling tables and supervise staff. | ||||
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Train new dealers. | ||||
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CompGeo Salary Survey Benchmark Job Summary and Competencies
Gaming Dealers
The Benchmark Job Description below represents the specific Position Characteristics of the job used in the Salary Survey. Benchmark Job Descriptions should be inspected carefully to review the degree of matching between an organizations' Job and the Salary Survey Benchmark. Matching internal Jobs to Salary Survey Benchmark Jobs should not be done on Job Title alone. A thorough comparison of Salary Survey Benchmark to Internal Job Descriptions is recommended. A good overlap should exist on any comparisons used on critical Job Dimensions and Competencies.- Job Description
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- Tools and Technology
- Education and Experience
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Important Knowledge Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Mathematics | Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications. | |||
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Customer and Personal Service | Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. | |||
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Psychology | Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders. | |||
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Important Skill Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Speaking | Talking to others to convey information effectively. | |||
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Active Listening | Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. | |||
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Monitoring | Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. | |||
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Social Perceptiveness | Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do. | |||
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Critical Thinking | Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. | |||
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Reading Comprehension | Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents. | |||
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Coordination | Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions. | |||
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Service Orientation | Actively looking for ways to help people. | |||
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Persuasion | Persuading others to change their minds or behavior. | |||
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Negotiation | Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences. | |||
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Time Management | Managing one's own time and the time of others. | |||
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Active Learning | Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making. | |||
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Judgment and Decision Making | Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. | |||
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Important Ability Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. | |||
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Problem Sensitivity | The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem. | |||
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Speech Clarity | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. | |||
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Oral Comprehension | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. | |||
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Speech Recognition | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. | |||
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Near Vision | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). | |||
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Selective Attention | The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. | |||
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Manual Dexterity | The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects. | |||
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Deductive Reasoning | The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. | |||
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Information Ordering | The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). | |||
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Category Flexibility | The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. | |||
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Perceptual Speed | The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object. | |||
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Inductive Reasoning | The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). | |||
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Written Comprehension | The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. | |||
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Speed of Closure | The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns. | |||
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Time Sharing | The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources). | |||
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Arm-Hand Steadiness | The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position. | |||
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Finger Dexterity | The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects. | |||
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Trunk Strength | The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without 'giving out' or fatiguing. | |||
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Visual Color Discrimination | The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness. | |||
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Written Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand. | |||
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Flexibility of Closure | The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material. | |||
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Originality | The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem. | |||
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Number Facility | The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly. | |||
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Far Vision | The ability to see details at a distance. | |||
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Auditory Attention | The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds. | |||
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Tools/Technology Example | Product Category | |||
Email software | Electronic mail software | |||
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Microsoft Excel | Spreadsheet software | |||
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Baccarat tables | Card tables | |||
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Blackjack tables | Card tables | |||
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Craps tables | Card tables | |||
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Desktop computers | Desktop computers | |||
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Dice | Dice | |||
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Imprest banks | Cash or ticket boxes | |||
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Laptop computers | Notebook computers | |||
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Personal computers | Personal computers | |||
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Player tracking system software | Table gambling management systems | |||
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Playing cards | Playing cards | |||
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Poker tables | Card tables | |||
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Progressive Gaming Chip Inventory System | Table gambling management systems | |||
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Roulette wheels | Roulette wheels | |||
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Table banks | Cash or ticket boxes | |||
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Table chip trays | Coin banks | |||
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Table game drop boxes | Cash or ticket boxes | |||
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Table game management system software | Table gambling management systems | |||
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Tangam Gaming TableEye21 | Table gambling management systems | |||
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Tangam Gaming TableEyeBacc | Table gambling management systems | |||
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Prerequisite Qualification Category | Education and Experience Level | |||
Required Level of Education | High School Diploma (or GED or High School Equivalence Certificate) | |||
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On-Site or In-Plant Training | Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months | |||
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Related Work Experience | None | |||
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Required Level of Education | Less than a High School Diploma | |||
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Alternate Job Title(s) | |||
21 Dealer | |||
Baccarat Dealer | |||
Big 6 Dealer | |||
Black Jack Dealer | |||
Blackjack Dealer | |||
Card Dealer | |||
Card Game Operator | |||
Card Grader | |||
Casino Dealer | |||
Casino Games Dealer | |||
Casino Gaming Worker | |||
Casino Worker | |||
Crap Shooter | |||
Craps Dealer | |||
Croupier | |||
Dealer | |||
Dice Dealer | |||
Dice Table Operator | |||
Dual Rate Dealer | |||
Faro Dealer | |||
Gambling Dealer | |||
Game Operator | |||
Games Dealer | |||
Gaming Dealer | |||
Gaming Host | |||
Gaming Table Operator | |||
Keno Dealer | |||
Live Games Dealer | |||
Mini Baccarat Dealer | |||
Pai Gow Dealer | |||
Pit Boss | |||
Poker Dealer | |||
Roulette Dealer | |||
Table Games Dealer | |||
Twenty-One Dealer | |||
Wheel of Fortune Dealer | |||
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