KEY TAKEAWAYS
Key Numbers From Five State Lotteries
State lotteries publish audited annual reports, and those reports are the primary record of how much players spend, how much is paid back in prizes and how much reaches state programs. This page compiles the fiscal year 2025 figures reported by five lotteries: Florida, Michigan, New Jersey, Minnesota and Kansas, each taken directly from its own annual report or official page.
The largest of the five was Florida, with approximately $9.1 billion in sales and approximately $2.16 billion in contributions to education. Michigan followed with $4.6 billion in sales and $2.9 billion in prizes. New Jersey reported $3.343 billion in sales, a 7.9% decline from fiscal year 2024, and a contribution of $1.083 billion to the state pension system.
Minnesota and Kansas are smaller programs. Minnesota reported gross receipts of $662,347,740, and Kansas reported sales above $297 million. Every figure carries the lottery’s own fiscal year, which differs from the calendar year, and the tables below say which lottery uses which year-end.
How State Lotteries Report Their Numbers
Lottery figures look simple but are defined differently from one state to the next. Sales normally means the value of tickets sold, including scratch-off (instant) tickets and draw games such as Powerball and Mega Millions. Prizes are the amounts awarded to players. Commissions are paid to the retailers that sell tickets. The contribution to the state, often called net proceeds or transfers, is the money passed on to the beneficiary the law names, such as education or a pension system.
The reporting periods differ. Florida, New Jersey, Minnesota and Kansas report a fiscal year ended June 30, 2025. Michigan reports a fiscal year ended September 30, 2025. Because the Michigan year ends three months later, its figures contain a different slice of the jackpot cycle than the other four.
Definitions also differ in detail. Minnesota reports total operating revenue and then subtracts an in-lieu-of-sales tax to reach gross receipts, and its payments to the state include that tax and unclaimed prizes. New Jersey states its contribution as a percentage of net revenues. Florida and Michigan round their headline figures in their narrative sections. These differences are why this page keeps each lottery’s figure as the lottery reports it and does not add the five together.
Lottery Sales, Prizes and Transfers by State
The table lists the headline figures each lottery published for fiscal year 2025. A dash means the lottery’s reviewed pages did not report the figure on a comparable basis. Figures marked approximate are rounded by the lottery itself.
| Lottery (fiscal year end) | Sales | Prizes | Contribution to state |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida (June 30, 2025) | approx. $9.1 billion | — | approx. $2.16 billion |
| Michigan (Sept. 30, 2025) | $4.6 billion | $2.9 billion | over $1,163,800,000 |
| New Jersey (June 30, 2025) | $3.343 billion | $2.027 billion | $1.083 billion |
| Minnesota (June 30, 2025) | $662,347,740 gross receipts | — | $161,649,568 total paid to state |
| Kansas (June 30, 2025) | over $297 million | 61.3% of sales | over $74 million |
Source notes: Florida Lottery Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, fiscal years 2025 and 2024; Michigan Bureau of State Lottery Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, fiscal years 2025 and 2024; New Jersey Division of the State Lottery financial statements, fiscal year 2025; Minnesota State Lottery FY25 annual report; Kansas Lottery, Where the Money Goes page.
The figure that stands out is the $1.083 billion New Jersey contribution relative to its sales, which is a much larger share than most of the other lotteries report. The next sections turn these headline numbers into shares and year-over-year changes.
What Moved Inside the Numbers
Three of the lotteries explain their changes by game type. New Jersey reported scratch-off sales of $2.043 billion, against $2.060 billion a year earlier, so scratch-offs were roughly flat. Draw-game sales, the remainder of the $3.343 billion total, were about $1.300 billion, and the Division attributes the decline in total sales to softer Powerball and Mega Millions sales after fewer billion-dollar jackpots.
Minnesota’s breakdown shows the same pattern. Its Powerball sales fell from $104,042,194 to $44,514,528, and Mega Millions sales fell from $53,554,894 to $38,758,960. Total lotto ticket sales fell from $250,807,175 to $183,836,613, while scratch ticket sales were almost unchanged at $524,463,742.
Florida reported the opposite direction for its instant games: a 3.29% increase in scratch sales from fiscal year 2023-24 to 2024-25. Its draw game portfolio had sales exceeding $2.30 billion, generating approximately $779 million in contributions to education.
The percentage changes below are calculated from the reported dollar figures.
where: current is the fiscal year 2025 figure and prior is the fiscal year 2024 figure. For Minnesota Powerball, ($44,514,528 − $104,042,194) ÷ $104,042,194 gives −57.2%. For Minnesota Mega Millions the result is −27.6%, and for total lotto ticket sales it is −26.7%. Scratch ticket sales changed by −0.1%.
How the Five Lotteries Compare
Because the lotteries differ in size, shares are more useful than dollars for comparison. Two shares can be calculated for most of them: prizes as a share of sales, and the contribution to the state as a share of sales.
where: part is prizes or the contribution to the state, and sales is the lottery’s reported sales figure for the same fiscal year.
| Lottery | Prizes share | State contribution share |
|---|---|---|
| Florida | — | about 23.7% |
| Michigan | about 63.0% | about 25.3% |
| New Jersey | 60.6% | 32.4% |
| Minnesota | — | 24.4% of gross receipts |
| Kansas | 61.3% (as reported) | 25.1% (as reported) |
Prize payout was close across the three lotteries that report it, between 60.6% and 63.0% of sales. The state share varied more, from about 23.7% in Florida to 32.4% in New Jersey. New Jersey’s law set a minimum contribution of 30% of net revenues for fiscal year 2025, and the Division reports that the minimum rate is lowered to 27% for fiscal year 2026 onward.
Direction of change matters as well. New Jersey’s contribution fell 7.6% against a 7.9% fall in sales, so the share held steady, while Minnesota’s payments to the state fell 17.7% against an 8.7% fall in gross receipts, a faster decline than sales.
Methodology & Limitations
Datasets used: Florida Lottery, Annual Comprehensive Financial Report for the fiscal years ended June 30, 2025 and 2024; Michigan Bureau of State Lottery, Annual Comprehensive Financial Report for the fiscal years ended September 30, 2025 and 2024; New Jersey Division of the State Lottery, financial statements and management discussion for fiscal year 2025; Minnesota State Lottery, FY25 Annual Report; Kansas Lottery, Where the Money Goes page. All were accessed in October 2026.
Definitions are each lottery’s own. Figures are reproduced as published, including the lotteries’ own rounding. Shares in Table 2 were calculated as prizes or contributions divided by sales; where a lottery supplied both numbers only in rounded billions, the result is shown as about and is accurate only to the rounding of its inputs. Michigan’s contribution was reported as over $1,163,800,000, so its share is a floor.
Limitations: the five lotteries are a selection, not a national total, and no national figure is calculated here. Fiscal years end on different dates. New Jersey’s report states its sales decline as 7.9%, while the rounded dollar figures give 8.0%, and the same report prints the scratch-off change as 0.08% where the reported dollars imply 0.8%; this page uses the dollar figures. The Kansas percentage components published on its page add to more than 100%, so only the prize and transfer shares are used. Minnesota’s figures include an in-lieu-of-sales tax and unclaimed prizes in payments to the state.
Key Figures at a Glance
| Figure | Value | Period | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida sales | approx. $9.1 billion | FY ended 6/30/2025 | Florida Lottery |
| Michigan prizes | $2.9 billion | FY ended 9/30/2025 | Michigan Bureau of State Lottery |
| New Jersey sales | $3.343 billion | FY ended 6/30/2025 | NJ Division of the State Lottery |
| Minnesota total paid to state | $161,649,568 | FY ended 6/30/2025 | Minnesota State Lottery |
| Kansas prize share | 61.3% | FY ended 6/30/2025 | Kansas Lottery |
All values are as reported by the lottery. Derived shares and changes are in Tables 2 and the text above.
Related Data
For lottery spending in the context of other forms of play, see how many Americans gamble according to national surveys. Lotteries sit outside the commercial casino and sports betting totals compiled in U.S. commercial gaming market size by year, and one state’s regulated gambling revenue is laid out in Pennsylvania gambling revenue by type.
Frequently Asked Questions
Sources & References
- Florida Lottery — Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, fiscal years ended June 30, 2025 and 2024 (accessed October 2026)
- Michigan Bureau of State Lottery — Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, fiscal years ended September 30, 2025 and 2024 (accessed October 2026)
- New Jersey Division of the State Lottery — Financial statements, fiscal year ended June 30, 2025 (accessed October 2026)
- Minnesota State Lottery — FY25 Annual Report, fiscal year ended June 30, 2025 (accessed October 2026)
- Kansas Lottery — Where the Money Goes, fiscal year ended June 30, 2025 (accessed October 2026)
