🎁 What $20M buys in the United States
2 scratch offs in the United States have a top prize of $20M. Here is what that is worth where it is won, and how often it actually turns up.
What $20M covers
💼 years of the median salary229
🏠 months of the average rent13,450
🛒 years of groceries3,213
The numbers behind it
- 🎟️ $20M is 400,000 times the price of a $50 ticket.
- ⏳ One top prize turns up about every 1,318,911 tickets on $1,000,000 a Year for Life, going by the numbers the lottery printed.
- 💸 Buying that many tickets would cost about $66M to win $20M -- which is the whole point of the odds.
Tickets with a $20M top prize
| Ticket | Price | Tickets per top prize | Top prizes left |
|---|---|---|---|
 $1,000,000 a Year for Life#1762 · Pennsylvania | $50 | 1 in 1,318,911 | 5 left |
 Lifetime Millions#433 · Massachusetts | $50 | 1 in 8,399,457 | 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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