Taylor Swift’s generosity knows no bounds as the singer has given away a whopping chunk of her Eras Tour profits to those who worked on the production.
The Eras Tour has become the highest-grossing tour of all time, having raked in over $2 billion in ticket sales as it ran from March 2023 until December 2024.
And while one can assume that Taylor herself made a pretty massive bag from all those performances, she’s made sure everyone that worked on it with her did well out of it too.
According to reports from People, Taylor – who will turn 35 on Friday – gave away a massive $197 million in bonuses to her workers.
Everyone from the dancers and performers, to the truck drivers, caterers, instrument techs, merchandise team, lighting, sound, production staff and assistants, carpenters, dancers, band, security, choreographers, pyrotechnics, riggers, hair, make-up, wardrobe, physical therapists and video team received a bonus from the singer, according to the outlet.
At the end of the North American leg of the tour in August 2023, the outlet confirmed that the Grammy-winning star had given out over $55 million in bonuses, and her generosity clearly did not end there.
Taylor performed her last show of the mammoth 149-date tour at the BC Place Stadium in Vancouver on Sunday, December 8.
She told concertgoers: “We have toured the entire world. 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 the show, she told her fans: “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.”
The singer’s production company, Taylor Swift Touring, confirmed to the New York Times that 10,168,008 people attended the Eras Tour, which made $2,077,618,725 in total tickets.
The stonking sum makes it “double the gross ticket sales of any other concert tour in history”.
As well as her record-breaking tour, Taylor was recently also nominated for six Grammys, including Album of the Year for The Tortured Poets Department.
The nomination makes her the first female star to be nominated for the honor seven times, breaking a tie she previously held with Barbra Streisand.
She reacted to the news at a show last month, telling her fans: “You guys got this album nominated for six Grammys. It’s so unbelievable, so thank you.”
Taylor later added: “You guys have been so wonderful about getting into this album and really understanding where I was coming from with it and you made it, by far, the biggest debut week I’ve ever had of an album.
“And you kept that album at number one for nearly four months … Everything that happens is a direct reflection of the passion that you show. It’s truly blown my mind.”
Now someone needs to let us know when Taylor starts hiring staff for her next tour…