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View winning numbers$562M jackpot
Advertised annuity$562M
Stored cash value$231.9M
Cash share41.3%
Place in history#99
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This jackpot’s story
How this drawing fits the jackpot’s history
What does $562M actually mean?
- Million-dollar months
Spending $1 million every month would still take 46.8 years to reach zero—each month gets a blockbuster budget and its own closing credits.
- Warehouse wealth
At $100 million per tightly packed currency pallet, the jackpot equals about 5.62 pallets. Fractional pallets remain difficult to explain at receiving.
- A neighborhood of opportunity
At $500,000 each, it could buy about 1,124 homes—turning one jackpot into a very busy block party.
- Lotteryception
Spending it all on Powerball tickets would buy 281,000,000 plays—an admirably circular use of a jackpot.
- A suspicious amount of pizza
At $20 each, it could buy about 28,100,000 pizzas—although your cardiologist may terminate the experiment early.
How these comparisons are calculated
WTN uses fixed formulas and rounded editorial benchmarks. Variable-price assumptions were reviewed August 20, 2026. They are examples—not quotes, tax estimates, purchasing advice, or investment promises. Read the methodology.
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- Latest stored jackpot
- $562M Wed, Oct 14, 2026
- WTN stored-history record
- $1.8B Sat, Sep 6, 2025
- Current growth run
- 27 draws Drawings since the most recent stored reset
- All-history resets
- 149 Decreases between consecutive stored jackpots
The stories behind the record
Four ways this jackpot history stands out.
The largest stored Powerball advertised jackpot was attached to the Saturday, September 6, 2025 drawing.
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It ran from Monday, September 8, 2025 through Wednesday, December 24, 2025 before the next stored reset.
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The advertised amount moved from $900M to $1.5B.
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The stored advertised jackpot reset on Saturday, August 15, 2026.
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Timeline
All history across 1985 drawings
Advertised annuityCash value
Wed, Feb 3, 2010 through Wed, Oct 14, 2026. Individual reset markers are hidden at this scale to keep the long-range trend readable; 149 stored resets are included in the complete-history calculation. The complete record calculations above do not change when the timeline range changes.
Complete stored-history rankings
The ten largest Powerball jackpots in WTN’s record.
#1
$1.8B
#2
$1.73B
#3
$1.7B
- #4 · $1.6B
- #5 · $1.6B
- #6 · $1.55B
- #7 · $1.5B
- #8 · $1.5B
- #9 · $1.4B
- #10 · $1.4B
Cash versus annuity
Cash values averaged 58.8% of advertised jackpots.
The stored share ranged from 40.9% on Mon, Oct 5, 2026 to 86.8% on Sat, Jan 23, 2021. The relationship changes with interest rates and the cost of funding the annuity.
Understand the payment optionsRecent jackpot history
| Drawing | Advertised annuity | Cash value | Cash share |
|---|---|---|---|
| $562M | $231.9M | 41.3% | |
| $538M | $221.7M | 41.2% | |
| $516M | $212.9M | 41.3% | |
| $485M | $199.7M | 41.2% | |
| $467M | $190.9M | 40.9% | |
| $440M | $183M | 41.6% | |
| $409M | $171M | 41.8% | |
| $389M | $161.7M | 41.6% | |
| $360M | $153.9M | 42.8% | |
| $332M | $142.2M | 42.8% | |
| $313M | $133.8M | 42.7% | |
| $298M | $127.2M | 42.7% | |
| $271M | $115.2M | 42.5% | |
| $251M | $107.4M | 42.8% | |
| $232M | $100.2M | 43.2% | |
| $207M | $89.4M | 43.2% | |
| $190M | $81.7M | 43.0% | |
| $173M | $75.4M | 43.6% | |
| $146M | $65.2M | 44.7% | |
| $131M | $58.1M | 44.4% |
Coverage and source
1985 normalized jackpot facts.
This analysis covers stored Powerball jackpot facts from Wed, Feb 3, 2010 through Wed, Oct 14, 2026. Rejected facts and void drawings are excluded; missing values are never treated as zero.
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