Being an accountant for a professional athlete must be a thankless task — well, apart from all the money they must make from their multimillionaire clients. Let’s clarify: in the spending-lots-of-time-doing-math department, it must be a thankless task. That’s obviously not much of a consolation for professional athletes when that tax bill when it comes rolling in but that is, of course, part of the deal.

Forbes crunched the numbers ahead of Sunday’s Super Bowl and calculated how much Cam Newton would have to pay of his bonus money regardless of how the game turns out in California, which boasts some of the highest tax rates in the nation (This exact issue even prompted a comment from Golfer Phil Mickelson about it in 2013).

According to Forbes:

Win on Sunday, and Newton will pay California a total of $159,560 in taxes in 2016. Lose, and he will pay $159,200, based on an income reduction of $51,000.

It continues: