Squid Game‘s newest season definitely has more surprises the original run. There are more motives behind winning the grand prize and characters who would do anything to keep it all to themselves.

Season one of Squid Game ended with Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) winning the prize money after going through all the brutal games. He prepares to board a plane to Los Angeles to reunite with his daughter but decides at the last minute not to go to the States. He enters the games again to seek out the truth behind who’s running the games. Like every game, new characters enter for a chance to win the pot to settle debts, for glory, or just to get rich. Gi-hun even encounters someone who is very close in his life when he plays the school games.

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But is the prize money really worth it? Take a look below on how much money they’re actually winning in the US conversion rate.

How much is the Squid Game money in USD?

The original money prize was 45.6 billion won which is equivalent to $31 million USD. However, with the new rules in season two, the prize money winds down per player depending on a vote. Unlike season one where there’s only one sole player who survives and wins the money, this new round allows players to vote whether they want to quit the games. The remaining players equally divide their earnings or stick around for another round to increase the prize money.

During episode three of season 2, the money went as low as ₩24,931,500 per person from the 9.1 billion won prize pot between 365 players. 24,931,500 won is about $16,963.33, and 9.1 billion won is $6.2 million USD. So, that’s a huge fraction of what was originally offered.

How much is a Squid Game player’s worth?

Each life in Squid Game is worth 100 million won which is about $68,000, which is about twice the average salary in South Korea. The grand prize money is definitely a large step up from the average life of a South Korean. According to Time, an expensive apartment in the Gangnam neighborhood of Seoul sells for 2.25 billion won, roughly $1.56 million. So with that, they still have enough to spend it however they want.

Compared to the richest man in South Korea Jay Y. Lee, the Squid Game winner still doesn’t really have a dent in wealth for the top 1%. The Samsung executive chairman has a net worth of about $11.5B or $168.8 trillion USD.