- Super Bowl LIX is on February 9, with the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles competing.
- Win or lose, the two teams’ players will each earn over $100,000.
- The money is on top of huge contracts, with some players earning tens of millions each year.
It pays to win the Super Bowl, but the losing team gets a nice chunk of cash, too. Win or lose, some of the players have huge contracts that earned them millions of dollars in the 2024 NFL season.
The Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles will compete in Super Bowl LIX on February 9. While Kansas City is favored to win, it’s really anyone’s game.
In addition to earning a Super Bowl ring and making the history books, players profit financially from clinching the win.
The rates for this year’s game were decided in the 2020 collective bargaining agreement. The winners get $178,000, while the losing team will take home $103,000 per player, $7,000 more than last year.
Those bonuses are on top of already hefty salaries for certain players. Some also have incentives or bonuses baked into their contracts for winning the Super Bowl.
The mechanics of salaries, signing bonuses, and incentives can get complicated. Teams often restructure contracts to work within their salary cap so the player gets some of the cash as a signing bonus over several years, for example.
To keep things simple, here are the biggest contracts on the Eagles and the Chiefs.
