The resort’s two new casinos helped push the industry’s total employment over the 30,000 mark for the first time since 2014. Atlantic City’s nine casino hotels employed 30,217 people in July, according to the most recent statistics released by the state Division of Gaming Enforcement.
The figure includes full-time and part-time employees. Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City and Ocean Resort Casino, both of which opened to the public June 27, were responsible for a combined 8,184 jobs in July, or 27 percent of the industry’s total. Hard Rock’s 4,393 jobs and Ocean Resort’s 3,791 make the properties the industry’s second- and third-largest employers.