While winning the Super Bowl is very much about the glory, Seahawks and Patriots players will go home with a nice bonus to celebrate their seasons.
Super Bowl LX will deliver six-figure checks to everyone on the field—but exactly how much depends on which locker room is celebrating, how long each player has been with the team, and what’s written into their NFL contracts.
How much will the winners of the Super Bowl LX get paid?
Players on the winning team in Super Bowl LX will earn a $178,000 league-paid bonus, set by the NFL’s collective bargaining agreement (CBA). That’s up $7,000 from last year’s Super Bowl share.
That Super Bowl check comes on top of earlier playoff payouts: wild-card and divisional-round wins each trigger their own fixed bonuses, and a perfect run from wild card weekend through a Super Bowl title would leave a player with as much as about $376,000 in total postseason money this year.
According to the CBA, payouts are as follows:
Wild-card winner (division winner): $64,500
Wild-card winner (non-division winner) and teams on first-round bye: $59,500
Divisional playoff winner: $64,500
Conference championship winner: $87,000
Super Bowl winner: $188,000
Super Bowl loser: $113,000
For stars with playoff incentives in their contracts—like roster, play-time, or performance escalators—hoisting the Lombardi Trophy can also unlock additional seven-figure payments from their teams or future guarantees that make the league-mandated checks seem small.
How much will the losers of the Super Bowl LX get paid?
Losing the Super Bowl still pays a substantial bonus: players on the runner-up will receive $103,000 each under the same CBA schedule. That figure is also up $7,000 from last season.
Because postseason pay is a flat schedule by round, those on the losing side will have already banked bonuses for earlier wins, bringing their total playoff haul into the low-to-mid six figures depending on when they entered the bracket. For many fringe players on minimum deals, that one-month run can represent a meaningful percentage of their annual football income—even if they walk away without rings.
Does every player get paid the same amount?
Within each team, the league-issued Super Bowl shares are identical for eligible players, from franchise quarterbacks to special team players. The CBA spells out who qualifies—typically players on the active, inactive, or certain reserve lists for a set number of games—with partial shares available for those who joined midseason or were released.
The big disparities come from individual contracts layered on top of that flat system. Veterans with Pro Bowl résumés may have playoff and Super Bowl appearance bonuses worth hundreds of thousands or even around $1 million, while younger teammates rely almost entirely on the standardized checks.
Add it up, and Super Bowl LX will showcase a familiar paradox: Everyone gets the same league bonus for playing in the biggest game of the year, but the true financial stakes vary wildly from one player’s contract—and outcome—to the next.
For this story, Fortune journalists used generative AI as a research tool. An editor verified the accuracy of the information before publishing.
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