🎁 What $5.2M buys in the United States
2 scratch offs in the United States have a top prize of $5.2M. Here is what that is worth where it is won, and how often it actually turns up.
What $5.2M covers
💼 years of the median salary59
🏠 months of the average rent3,497
🛒 years of groceries835
The numbers behind it
- 🎟️ $5.2M is 520,000 times the price of a $10 ticket.
- ⏳ One top prize turns up about every 5,467,704 tickets on $5,000 A WEEK FOR LIFE, going by the numbers the lottery printed.
- 💸 Buying that many tickets would cost about $55M to win $5.2M -- which is the whole point of the odds.
Tickets with a $5.2M top prize
| Ticket | Price | Tickets per top prize | Top prizes left |
|---|---|---|---|
 $5,000 A WEEK FOR LIFE#1601 · Florida | $10 | 1 in 5,467,704 | 1 left |
 SET FOR LIFE#1639 · New York | $10 | 1 in 8,021,744 | 2 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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