{"id":634244,"date":"2026-10-02T13:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T13:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/634244\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T13:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T13:36:14","slug":"how-much-of-the-750000-big-brother-prize-money-the-winner-keep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/634244\/","title":{"rendered":"How Much of the $750,000 \u2018Big Brother\u2019 Prize Money the Winner Keep?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been 12 long weeks, but Big Brother Season 28 is officially over\u2014and one lucky person won the grand prize of $750,000. Said lucky person in question? Rick Devens. But if you\u2019re wondering how much of that $750,000 prize Rick actually got at the end of the day, the answer is…certainly not all of it!<\/p>\n

According to The Sun<\/a>, Rick will only get a fraction of his prize money due to taxes. They crunched the exact numbers and reported that he\u2019ll keep approximately $400,000, while the remaining $350,000 will go to combined state and federal taxes. Though, Rick also won favorite player of Big Brother 28 after America voted, which is another $50,000, pre-tax.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, second-place winner Taylor Brown walked away with a $75,000 cash prize (though, after taxes that will also be a bit lower), while third-place winner Drew Campbell walked away with $10,000 before taxes.<\/p>\n

The Big Brother prize has gone up significantly since the show started. When it first premiered in 2020, the winner took home $500,000, but in 2021, the award increased by $250,000.<\/p>\n

As for how Rick plans to spend his money, he told Entertainment Weekly<\/a> he wants to reunite with his family and thank them for the sacrifice they made by letting him go on the show.<\/p>\n

\u201cI missed them like crazy. I think they missed me too,\u201d he said. \u201cThey made a huge sacrifice to let me go on the show, and I can\u2019t wait to make that up to them. And luckily, I\u2019ve got a lot of money to help me do that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been 12 long weeks, but Big Brother Season 28 is officially over\u2014and one lucky person won the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[635,286549,637,146,85,46,195853,1975,147738,286548,237453,148296,411],"class_list":["post-634244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-c914fc68-c9d1-4ac8-bf5b-afb776c8d067","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-issyndicated-false","tag-locale-us","tag-read_time-2","tag-shorttitle-how-much-of-the-big-brother-prize-does-rick-get","tag-sponsored-false","tag-subsection-tv","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}