Dealer's earnings
There is considerable differences in the earning of dealers - depending on where the dealer is employed.
Remember, dealers are employed in a "service industry"
You can serve food at a diner or you can wait tables in a high class gourmet restaurant. The wait staff at the latter earn many times what the former earns.
A cab driver in New York City can earn $300 per day but a cabbie in a small town will not see $100.
Current economic trends have reduced dealer's earnings but at the swankier casinos dealers can expect to earn around $250 / shift. At most properties dealers will be lucky to take home $150 / shift. At small low-stakes venues it can drop to below $75 / shift.
e.g. Dealers at Ballys in Atlantic City have been earning an hourly "toke rate" of about $14, coupled with minimum wage, that equates to about $20 per hour or $160 / shift. Caesars A.C. is an (attached sister-property) and the dealers there earn about $4 / hr. more.
In Connecticut, Foxwoods' dealers are earning about $12 / hr. and are resentful of the dealers selected to work at their faux "Foxwoods MGM" casino who earn about $6 / hr. more. The only local competition, Mohegan Sun, serves a higher-betting clientele, so they too earn more than they do.
Naturally, these dealers also collect minimum wage.
Most, but not all, casino dealers receive minimum wage + tokes, but MGM-Mirage casinos have long paid $7.75 in place of minimum wage, even when minimum wage was rather low.