The winning numbers for the latest drawing of the $1.8 billion Powerball lottery have been revealed.
The numbers for Saturday, September 6 are 11, 23, 44, 61, 62 with Powerball 17.
The odds of winning the second-largest jackpot in Powerball history are 1-in-292-million. The largest Powerball payout ever was $2.04 billion in 2022.
If someone has the above numbers, they can choose to walk away with a $826.4 million dollar lump sum payment before taxes.
Or they can opt for roughly $5 million annuity payments annually for the next 29 years.
There was so much interest in tonight’s drawing that the Powerball website actually crashed. Officials have not yet said whether anyone has actually won.
The Powerball lottery is played in 45 different states, plus Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. The game has been around since April 1992.
There have been four Powerball winners so far in 2025, with the most recent being a person in California who won $204.5 million in May.
The winning numbers for the latest drawing of the $1.8 billion Powerball lottery have been revealed as 11, 23, 44, 61, 62 with Powerball 17
The first player to win this year was someone from Oregon, who cashed a ticket on January 18 that netted $328.5 million.
A second winner came forward on March 29, winning $527 million. A third won $167.3 million on April 26.
Lottery fans might be loathe to know, however, that the federal and state taxes will take a huge bite out of the $1.8 billion jackpot, even if you’re lucky enough to win.
According to USA Mega, any Powerball prize over $5,000 triggers an automatic 24 percent federal withholding. And that’s just the beginning.
Most winners will end up owing a total of 37 percent in federal income tax, slicing more than a third off the sum.
If the winner decides to take the lump-sum payment of $826.4 million, the IRS would immediately skim about $198 million. An additional $107 million would come due at tax time.
That leaves the winner with roughly $521 million before state taxes are factored in.
Where you live makes an enormous difference. In states with no income tax on lottery prizes – such as Florida, Texas, California, Washington, Tennessee, South Dakota, New Hampshire, Wyoming, and Delaware – winners keep the most, walking away with just over half a billion dollars.
Pictured: People wait in line to buy lottery tickets at the Lotto Store just inside the California border on Wednesday near Primm, Nevada
But in high–tax states like New York, where the top state rate hits 10.9 percent and New York City residents face an additional 3.876 percent, the prize can dwindle by well over $100 million more.
Washington, D.C., with its 10.75 percent levy, is nearly as punishing.
The disparity is just as staggering with jackpots in the hundreds of millions.
USA Mega’s analysis of an August drawing shows that on a $350.7 million cash lump sum, a winner in Florida would keep more than $220 million after federal taxes.
In New York City, that same prize would drop to just $182 million once state and local taxes were applied.
