Powerball Numbers — May 2, 2026
Winning numbers for the Saturday May 2, 2026 Powerball drawing. Use the calculator below to see what this jackpot would mean after federal and state tax.
Winning numbers
May 2, 2026
- Draw time (ET)
- May 2, 2026, 10:59 PM
- Advertised jackpot
- $20M
- Cash value
- $9M
- Power Play
- 3x
Winners
- Jackpot winners
- 2 winners: FL, TX
- Match 5 + Power Play ($2M)
- 1 winner in GA
- Match 5 ($1M)
- None
Prize tier breakdown
All nine prize tiers with the number of winning tickets for this draw. Power Play prizes use the 3x multiplier drawn this night (Match 5 is locked at $2M regardless of multiplier).
| Match | Powerball prize | Powerball winners | Power Play prize | Power Play winners |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 white + Powerball | Jackpot | 2 | — | — |
| 5 white | $1,000,000 | 0 | $2,000,000 | 1 |
| 4 white + Powerball | $50,000 | 10 | $150,000 | 1 |
| 4 white | $100 | 181 | $300 | 68 |
| 3 white + Powerball | $100 | 482 | $300 | 158 |
| 3 white | $7 | 11,882 | $21 | 4,176 |
| 2 white + Powerball | $7 | 9,952 | $21 | 3,460 |
| 1 white + Powerball | $4 | 78,204 | $12 | 27,772 |
| Powerball only | $4 | 198,620 | $12 | 72,300 |
What would a jackpot win cost in tax?
If your ticket matched all five white balls plus the red Powerball on this draw, you would have claimed the advertised jackpot for May 2, 2026. Plug an amount and state into the calculator below to see federal withholding, top-bracket federal tax, state tax, and take-home.
Use the current advertised jackpot to see today's number, or any historical amount to model a what-if for this draw date.
Winning numbers and Power Play multipliers come from NY State Open Data dataset d6yy-54nr, refreshed after each Powerball drawing. Per-draw jackpot, cash value, and prize-tier winner counts are scraped from the official powerball.com draw-result page. Federal and state tax assumptions are documented in /methodology. Powerball is a registered trademark of the Multi-State Lottery Association; this page is an independent educational record.
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