The Pro Bowl’s 2023 season has been playing in February. Due to funding, the event is well-known as the Verizon Pro Bowl Games. For the 2023 season, Peyton Manning will lead the AFC and Eli Manning will lead the NFC. The Pro Bowl prize money for this year’s games has been announced.
Pro Bowl Prize Money 2023
The 2023 Pro Bowl champion team players will each receive $84,000. This is the highest Pro Bowl prize share in NFL history. And also exceeds the game prize of $82,000 per player received by the Super Bowl losing team.
The Pro Bowl share granted to the loser is also the highest it has ever been, every player will be received $42,000.
The Pro Bowl prize share reached its previous peak in 2022. Winners of the 2022 Pro Bowl received $80,000 and losers received $40,000. The overall prize money has climbed every year since 2016 and has more than doubled since 2008.
| Position | Prize Money |
| Winners Players Pool | $84k |
| Runner-ups Players Pool | $44k |
How Much Do Losing Team Players Earn?
The Pro Bowl games’ losers will each receive $44,000. Runners-up received a portion of $40k from the competition fund in 2022, & in 2020 the runners-up team earns $35k.
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Pro Bowl Prize Money History
Early on, there was not much of a difference in prize money between champions and losers in the Pro Bowl. In the 1971 game, the winners received $2,000 while the losers received $1,500. Up until 1978, when the league revised its prize money distributions and decided that the victors would receive twice as much as the losers.
Since then, the victors of the Pro Bowl have virtually always earned twice as much as the losers. Only a few times throughout the 2010s were there when that wasn’t the case.
The Pro Bowl prize money history from the 1971 game until the 2023 Pro Bowl games is shown below.
| Year | Winner’s | Loser’s |
| 2023 | $84,000 | $42,000 |
| 2022 | $80,000 | $40,000 |
| 2021 | Not Held | Not Held |
| 2020 | $70,000 | $35,000 |
| 2019 | $67,000 | $34,000 |
| 2018 | $64,000 | $32,000 |
| 2017 | $61,000 | $30,000 |
| 2016 | $55,000 | $28,000 |
| 2015 | $55,000 | $28,000 |
| 2014 | $53,000 | $26,000 |
| 2013 | $50,000 | $25,000 |
| 2012 | $50,000 | $25,000 |
| 2011 | $45,000 | $22,500 |
| 2010 | $45,000 | $22,500 |
| 2009 | $45,000 | $22,500 |
| 2008 | $40,000 | $20,000 |
| 2007 | $40,000 | $20,000 |
| 2006 | $40,000 | $20,000 |
| 2005 | $35,000 | $17,500 |
| 2004 | $35,000 | $17,500 |
| 2003 | $30,000 | $15,000 |
| 2002 | $30,000 | $15,000 |
| 2001 | $30,000 | $15,000 |
| 2000 | $25,000 | $12,500 |
| 1999 | $25,000 | $12,500 |
| 1998 | $25,000 | $12,500 |
| 1997 | $20,000 | $10,000 |
| 1996 | $20,000 | $10,000 |
| 1995 | $20,000 | $10,000 |
| 1994 | $20,000 | $10,000 |
| 1993 | $10,000 | $5,000 |
| 1992 | $10,000 | $5,000 |
| 1991 | $10,000 | $5,000 |
| 1990 | $10,000 | $5,000 |
| 1989 | $10,000 | $5,000 |
| 1988 | $10,000 | $5,000 |
| 1987 | $10,000 | $5,000 |
| 1986 | $10,000 | $5,000 |
| 1985 | $10,000 | $5,000 |
| 1984 | $10,000 | $5,000 |
| 1983 | $10,000 | $5,000 |
| 1982 | $5,000 | $2,500 |
| 1981 | $5,000 | $2,500 |
| 1980 | $5,000 | $2,500 |
| 1979 | $5,000 | $2,500 |
| 1978 | $5,000 | $2,500 |
| 1977 | $2,000 | $1,500 |
| 1976 | $2,000 | $1,500 |
| 1975 | $2,000 | $1,500 |
| 1974 | $2,000 | $1,500 |
| 1973 | $2,000 | $1,500 |
| 1972 | $2,000 | $1,500 |
| 1971 | $2,000 | $1,500 |
