Virginia Lottery continues to embrace its gaming oversight role

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.