🎁 What $1.2M buys in the United States
3 scratch offs in the United States have a top prize of $1.2M. Here is what that is worth where it is won, and how often it actually turns up.
What $1.2M covers
💼 years of the median salary14
🏠 months of the average rent807
🛒 years of groceries193
The numbers behind it
- 🎟️ $1.2M is 600,000 times the price of a $2 ticket.
- ⏳ One top prize turns up about every 958,911 tickets on Decade of Dollars, going by the numbers the lottery printed.
- 💸 Buying that many tickets would cost about $19M to win $1.2M -- which is the whole point of the odds.
Tickets with a $1.2M top prize
| Ticket | Price | Tickets per top prize | Top prizes left |
|---|---|---|---|
 Set for Life#1693 · California | $2 | 1 in 6,087,091 | None left |
 Set for Life#1736 · California | $2 | 1 in 6,002,998 | 2 left |
 Decade of Dollars#2864 · Colorado | $20 | 1 in 958,911 | 1 left |
Prizes shown are the advertised top prize before any tax, and the tickets pay smaller prizes far more often than the top one.
Other top prizes here
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Source
- 💼 US Census Bureau, Income in the United States: 2025 — September 2026
- 🏠 US Census Bureau, ACS 2024 median gross rent (table B25064) — September 2026
- 🛒 BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey 2024, food at home — September 2026
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