{"id":439908,"date":"2025-12-11T10:49:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T10:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/439908\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T10:49:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T10:49:16","slug":"powerball-jackpot-hits-1-billion-heres-what-the-winner-could-take-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/439908\/","title":{"rendered":"Powerball Jackpot Hits $1 Billion\u2014Here\u2019s What The Winner Could Take Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Topline<\/p>\n<p>The Powerball jackpot hit $1 billion\u2014the second biggest lottery prize of 2025 so far\u2014after no tickets matched all six numbers drawn on Wednesday night, although the eventual winner will take home a much smaller payout after taxes and deductions.<\/p>\n<p>A customer holds a number slip for Powerball lottery tickets.<\/p>\n<p>AFP via Getty ImagesKey Facts<\/p>\n<p>The six numbers drawn on Wednesday night were 10, 16, 29, 33, 69 and Red Powerball 22.<\/p>\n<p>If a winner emerges in the next draw, they can choose between taking the billion-dollar prize split across 30 annualized payments or a lump-sum cash prize of $461.3 million\u2014the preferred choice for most winners.<\/p>\n<p>If the lump-sum payment is chosen, the winnings will first drop to around $351 million after a mandatory federal withholding of 24% is applied.<\/p>\n<p>The winner would also face a federal marginal rate as high as 37%, depending on their taxable income, further reducing the winnings to around $291 million.<\/p>\n<p>If the installment route is picked, the winner\u2019s annual payments of $33.3 million would fall to $21 million after the 37% federal marginal rate is applied.<\/p>\n<p>What To Watch For<\/p>\n<p>The next Powerball jackpot draw is set to take place on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Topline The Powerball jackpot hit $1 billion\u2014the second biggest lottery prize of 2025 so far\u2014after no tickets matched&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":439909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,203091,99132,85797,85800,85799,203090,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-439908","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-powerball-1-billion","10":"tag-powerball-drawing","11":"tag-powerball-jackpot","12":"tag-powerball-lottery","13":"tag-powerball-numbers","14":"tag-powerball-winners","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115700548969011686","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}