Pennsylvania Gaming Industry Sets Another Record, 2025 Revenue Almost $6.8 Billion
Posted on: January 21, 2026, 12:39h.
Last updated on: January 21, 2026, 12:54h.
- Pennsylvania gaming revenue reached $6.79 billion in 2025
- Pennsylvania gaming numbers have grown each year for half a decade
The Pennsylvania gaming industry set an annual revenue record in 2025. It marked the fifth consecutive year in which gaming revenue in the commonwealth reached a new all-time high.
The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB) reports that 2025 gross gaming revenue (GGR), or the amount of money kept by the casinos, iGaming platforms, sportsbooks, video gaming terminals, and fantasy sports platforms after winning bets are paid, totaled $6,796,211,719. The nearly $6.8 billion marks a 10.7% increase from the 2024 GGR of approximately $6.13 billion.
The state’s benefit from its many forms of commercial gaming totaled more than $2.98 billion. The tax haul represents the highest amount of revenue returned to the commonwealth in any year, besting the previous mark of $2.66 billion set in 2024.
Pennsylvania has some of the highest gaming taxes in the country. Casino slots are taxed at 55% and table games at 16%. Online slots are taxed at 54% and interactive tables at 16%. Sportsbook revenue is taxed at 36%.
As was the case in neighboring New Jersey, where gaming revenue also reached new highs in 2025, iGaming was most responsible for Pennsylvania’s GGR surge. Online casinos won $2.77 billion from remote players, a 27% gain from 2024, a difference of more than $593.8 million. iGaming includes revenue from online slots and interactive table games, including poker.
Sports betting also helped propel the state gaming industry. Oddsmakers kept $602.5 million of the bets placed, an 18% gain from the prior year.
The 2025 Pennsylvania gaming revenue numbers don’t include money from the Pennsylvania Lottery, charitable gaming, or unregulated, controversial gaming websites such as prediction markets and sweepstakes.
Legacy Play Slows
Pennsylvania’s 17 brick-and-mortar casinos benefit from iGaming and sports betting, as they share in the revenue with their online partners. The casinos’ retail businesses, however, saw play slow in 2025.
Slot machine revenue totaled $2.43 billion, a 0.6% decline from 2024. Things were worse for tables, as felt win dropped 1.25% to $925.4 million. In total, physical casino revenue was down 0.8%, a net loss of about $27 million.
More competition for in-person play is expected before the year’s end. A casino from New York-based Saratoga Casino Holdings is set to open in State College at the Nittany Mall near Penn State University this spring.
Despite the small year-over-year in-person GGR contractions, the $2.43 billion in slot win was still the third-highest annual mark in state history. The $925.4 million in table income was the fourth-best year on record.
Gaming Growth
New Jersey and Pennsylvania, the second and third-richest commercial gaming states behind Nevada, have now experienced unprecedented gaming revenue for a half-decade.
Nevada has posted four consecutive years of GGR highs, with 2024 revenue totaling $15.6 billion. Though Las Vegas has experienced tourism struggles this year, with visitor volume down, gaming has managed to grow.
Through November, the Nevada Gaming Control Board’s most recently disclosed month, GGR totaled $14.36 billion. That marked a 1.5% year-over-year increase, and paces Nevada to post a fifth straight year of record casino revenue.
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