Pennsylvania Gaming Industry Posts Yearly Revenue Record at Nearly $6.4 Billion
Posted on: July 18, 2025, 02:15h.
Last updated on: July 18, 2025, 02:15h.
- Pennsylvania gaming revenue hit a record high in the state’s 2024/25 fiscal year
- Gamblers lost almost $6.4 billion gambling in the commonwealth during the 12 months
- iGaming was most responsible for the revenue growth
The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB) reported this week that gaming revenues from casinos, iGaming, sports betting, video gaming terminals, and fantasy sports reached a record high in the 2024/25 fiscal year.
The PGCB said gamblers lost nearly $6.4 billion ($6,394,641,819) between July 1, 2024, and June 30, 2025. The state gaming agency is tasked with regulating all forms of commercial gambling in the commonwealth, aside from the state-run lottery, parimutuel wagering, and charitable gaming.
The PGCB says state and local taxes from the record gaming revenue totaled almost $2.8 billion. That eclipses the previous high for gaming tax income that was set during the 2023/24 fiscal campaign, which generated approximately $2.54 billion in tax money.
In Pennsylvania, gaming taxes support an array of programs, including school property tax reduction, state, county, and local economic development initiatives, the agricultural industry, and the commonwealth’s General Fund.
iGaming Fuels Growth
Gross gaming revenue (GGR) from in-person casino slot machines and table games totaled $3.36 billion. That was down 0.8%, or about $27.2 million, from the 2023-24 financial year.
Revenue from sports betting was also rather flat. Oddsmakers from their retail and mobile operations kept roughly $487.6 million of the bets, a marginal 0.2% year-over-year improvement.
Revenue from video gaming terminals found in certain diesel truck stops was up less than 1% at 0.7%. The slot-like games kept $41.4 million of players’ money, up about $287K from the prior fiscal year.
Fantasy sports were also about flat, with fees from the online contests dwindling by $128K to $19.1 million.
It was online where the Pennsylvania gaming industry experienced further growth. iGaming revenue, or GGR from online slots and table games, including poker, soared 27% from $1.95 billion to $2.47 billion.
Pennsylvania is one of only seven states with legal online casino gambling. The others are Connecticut, Delaware, Michigan, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and West Virginia.
Pennsylvania’s iGaming revenue tally does not include gaming revenue from online sweepstakes sites like Chumba Casino. The controversial websites and apps claim to offer social games, but the ability to gamble with a secondary digital currency — sweeps coins — has led to critics labeling the sites as unregulated, illegal forms of internet casino gambling.
June Revenue
Along with the 2024/25 fiscal numbers, the PGCB this week reported gaming revenue for June. Statewide, gaming win climbed over 15% to $544.6 million. iGaming continued to lead the rally, with online slots surging 36% to $162.2 million and interactive table games up 22% to $47.6 million.
Physical slot machines kept $199.2 million of players’ bets, down almost 1% from June 2024, while the felt saw hold increase 1.5% to $162.2 million.
Online poker continues to make headway since Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) in April signed the Multi-State Internet Gaming Agreement (MSIGA). The agreement allows online poker players in Pennsylvania to sit at the same online tables as those in New Jersey, Nevada, Delaware, West Virginia, and Michigan.
Online poker rake was up 23% in June to more than $2.7 million.
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Just last week, Pamela Hackenburg, the former treasurer of Gregg Township, PA, pled guilty to embezzling $533,000 of Township funds -- including $322,185 that she spent gambling on DraftKings. DraftKings gets to keep all of the stolen money that it received, and that revenue is included in the gambling revenue totals that the PGCB so proudly touts. The Township's insurer may cover some of the loss (likely driving up the Township's future premiums if it does), and the taxpayers of the Township are on the hook for the rest. This is just one of many examples of how Pennsylvania's legal gambling market operates under the assiduous oversight of the PGCB -- similar examples abound.
The very first sentence of the article should say, "Gamblers in Pennsylvania lost nearly $6.4 billion ($6,394,641,819) between July 1, 2024, and June 30, 2025." Some of those dollars were stolen, most often through embezzlement. If millions of dollars were "laundered" through the PA gambling industry that revenue would be cheerfully welcomed with a wink and a nod.
The PGCB loves to report how much revenue it brings in and how much tax revenue it generates for the state. However, it will probably never issue an accurate report on how much potential economic growth our state has given up because PA citizens are putting their money into online slot machines that produce nothing instead of investing it in their homes, families, and businesses. It will also probably never issue a full and accurate accounting of how many individual lives and families have been destroyed by our state government's aggressive promotion of gambling. A majority of gambling revenues derive from people who are addicted to gambling or who show enough signs of addiction that they are clinically considered to be "at risk." Won't everything be just wonderful once PA gambling revenues have grown another 100x and gambling is the largest "industry" in our state?