Taylor Swift gave $197 million in bonuses to Eras Tour performers and crew

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highest-grossing tour of all-time.The Grammy winner, who will turn 35 on Friday, gave a whopping $197 million in bonuses to her tour performers and crew, including truck drivers, caterers, instrument techs, merch team, lighting, sound, production staff and assistants, carpenters, dancers, band, security, choreographers, pyrotechnics, riggers, hair, make-up, wardrobe, physical therapists and video team, according to People.In Aug.

2023, the outlet reported that Swift gave out over $55 million in bonuses after wrapping her first North American leg of the Eras Tour.

On Sunday, Dec. 8, “The Tortured Poets Department” singer took her last bow of 2024 with a final show at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver and showed her gratitude to fans during her opening “Lover” set.“We have toured the entire world,” Swift told concertgoers. “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.”At the end of her concert, she said, “I want to thank every single one of you for being a part of the most thrilling chapter of my entire life to date — my beloved Eras Tour.”Swift’s Vancouver show marked her 149th of the tour, which kicked off in Glendale, Ariz., in March 2023.The New York Times confirmed with her production company, Taylor Swift Touring, that 10,168,008 people attended the Eras Tour — and it sold $2,077,618,725 in total tickets, which “double the gross ticket sales of any other concert tour in history.”If you missed her Eras Tour, don’t fret.The Post broke down the top 13 most memorable moments over the singer’s twenty-one-month tour.