In just the past decade, Virginia has become one of the nation’s top states for gaming and most of the state’s oversight is handled through the Virginia Lottery — an agency that has grown 20% larger to accommodate those responsibilities.
Today the lottery oversees its traditional lottery ticket sales and drawings, online iLottery play, the state’s three casinos — with another in Norfolk now under construction — and a robust sports betting program with 14 licensed operators.
It currently employs 407 people, including 85 employees or about 21% who work in gaming compliance and work with casinos and sports betting. That number will grow in the future, as the planned casinos in Norfolk and Petersburg move forward.
