Prize money for 2025 Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest: how much does the winner earn?
Ryan Wohl details the prize money for the 2025 Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest.
The legendary Joey Chestnut will make his highly anticipated return to the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest today at 12:00 p.m. ET on ESPN2. This event takes place at Nathan’s Famous Corporation in Brooklyn, New York.
The total purse for the 2025 Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest is $40,000, but the winners of the men’s and women’s contests earn $10,000. In these contests, second place gets $5,000 while the third place finisher takes home $2,500.
On DraftKings Sportsbook, Joey Chestnut is a huge -2000 favorite to win his 17th Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest. Chestnut’s total for hot dogs eaten is 71.5, with the over being -125. The record in this event is 76, which is +215 to be broken in this year’s competition.
Here are the rest of the betting markets for this year’s Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest.