Tickets to The Super Bowl Commanded Super Prices
- Editor OGN Daily
- 2 hours ago
- 1 min read
What did it take to get to the Super Bowl yesterday? Well, either you were playing, or you were shelling out a lot of money.
The national average price for a ticket to Super Bowl LX - as calculated by Action Network from entry-level listings across marketplaces including Ticketmaster and StubHub - was a whopping $6,773.
Breaking that number down, Action developed the Super Bowl Ticket Burden Index to work out the financial impact of getting a ticket for the average person in different US cities, based on factors like monthly household income, local rent, utilities, and grocery prices.
The analysis found that Americans who purchased one of the 68,500 tickets at the Levi's Stadium would have to work about 174 hours on average to earn the cash for a Super Bowl ticket - though you’d have to work more than double this if you were in San Juan (454 hours). While high rent prices in the Puerto Rican city make the ticket’s cost equivalent to 3.7 months of rent, you’d at least be very close to where halftime performer Bad Bunny grew up.
Those already in California’s Bay Area would not only have the least distance to travel to get to this year’s Super Bowl, but they’d also have to put in the least amount of working hours to get inside the arena, with Santa Clara residents needing to labor for only 73 hours (roughly nine working days) to afford a dream ticket - about 2.3 months’ worth of rent.
All told, Action Network found that Topeka, Kansas had the highest financial burden to match the ticket price across the six measures analyzed.
