It really pays to work for Taylor Swift. The year-and-a-half-long tour saw bonuses of $197 million given to truck drivers, caterers, dancers and musicians.
Even her merchandise team, production crews and assistants cashed in, according to People magazine.
Rolling Stone reported that 10,168,008 people attended the tour, paying $2,077,618,725 for tickets. The more than $2 billion gate made it the best-selling tour ever. It took the crown from Elton John’s Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour, Rolling Stone reported.
So the bonuses were about 9.4% of the total sales, USA Today reported.
Back in August 2023, she gave those working to put on her tour $55 million in bonuses when the first leg of the North American tour wrapped, People magazine reported.
Truck drivers then got $100,000 checks and a handwritten letter from Swift, USA Today reported.
She just performed her last show of the Eras Tour on Dec. 8 at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver. It was her 149th show and was performed in front of 60,000 fans.
Swift told the crowd, “We have toured the entire world,” she said. “We have had so many adventures. It has been the most exciting, powerful, electrifying, intense, most challenging thing I’ve ever done in my entire life.”