Taylor Swift’s jaw-dropping $300m payout to staff revealed

As Taylor Swift’s Eras tour comes to an end, a new report reveals just how much of the profits she’s shared to those who worked on it.

She’s making the wildest dreams of her performers and crew come true.

Taylor Swift gifted the scores of people who helped bring her lengthy Eras Tour to life generous bonuses in addition to their salaries.

Over the past almost two years, the pop star, 34, gave an extra $US197 million ($AU305 million) to her dancers; choreographers; physical therapists; hair and makeup artists; wardrobe stylists; band members; instrument, sound, lighting and pyro technicians; riggers; carpenters; video team members, production staffers and assistants; truck drivers; caterers; merchandise staffers; and security personnel, Page Six reports.

People was first to report the news.

The outlet reported in August 2023, after Swift wrapped the United States leg of her tour, that she had given out more than $US55 million in bonuses.

Taylor Swift has shared around the profits of her record-breaking Eras tour. Picture: CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP

At the time, TMZ specified that the singer-songwriter gifted $US100,000 to each of the circa 50 truck drivers who had transported her equipment all over the country.

The outlet further reported that others — including her dancers, band members, lighting and sound technicians, and caterers — also received a “very generous amount.”

According to the New York Times, the Eras Tour — which began in March 2023 and concluded Sunday — raked in more than $US2 billion in ticket sales, which is “double the gross ticket sales of any other concert tour in history.”

Swift became a billionaire seven months into the record-breaking tour.

Swift’s bonuses to crew on the tour add up to more than $300m. Picture: Gareth Cattermole/TAS24/Getty

During her final concert in Vancouver, the Grammy winner gushed about the “adventures” she’d had while “touring the entire world” in 149 shows across five continents.

“It has been the most exciting, powerful, electrifying, intense, most challenging thing I’ve ever done in my entire life,” she marvelled, adding, “We’ve gotten to perform for over 10 million people on this tour.”

Before beginning her final track of the night, Swift told the crowd, “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.”

This story originally appeared on Page Six and is republished here with permission.

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