The anticipated jackpots for the game's upcoming two drawings are decided at a meeting of the Mega Millions group held every Tuesday and Friday in the morning. In order to estimate the anticipated total sales for those drawings, lottery directors and finance professionals share their respective state's sales predictions at the conference. The projected cash value of the jackpots and the announced annuity values are then calculated using those sales estimates, with the annuity value based on the 30-year U.S. Treasuries rate for that day, which is subject to daily fluctuations. Every drawing day's rate is frequently different from the rate used to determine the jackpot on the day before.