Taylor Swift Gave a Whopping $197 Million in Bonuses to Eras Tour Performers, Crew on Top of Their Salaries (Exclusive)
Swift gave $197 million in bonuses to Eras Tour workers, including truck drivers, caterers, dancers, and musicians.
Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour team put in the work — and she rewarded them generously.
Over the past two years, Swift gave out $197 million in bonuses to everyone working on her tour. This included truck drivers, caterers, techs, merch team, dancers, band, security, choreographers, pyrotechnics, and more.
In August 2023, Swift had given out over $55 million in bonuses by the end of the first North American leg.
On Sunday, Dec. 8, Swift, 34, took the stage at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver for her final show of the Eras Tour, which kicked off in Glendale, Ariz., in March 2023.
During her opening Lover set, Swift shared her appreciation for fans and concertgoers.
“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.”
Before performing “Karma” and taking her final bow, Swift thanked the crowd: “Thank you for being part of the most thrilling chapter of my life — my beloved Eras Tour.”
After her 149th and final show, Swift’s production company confirmed that 10,168,008 people attended the Eras Tour. It also reported total ticket sales of $2,077,618,725, making it the bestselling tour of all time—double the sales of any other concert tour in history.
Swift is ending 2024 on an unprecedented high note.
Alongside her record-breaking tour, Swift’s The Eras Tour Book sold 814,000 copies in two days, and she became the top-streamed artist of 2024, with The Tortured Poets Department as the top album.
While she’s reached the end of her Eras Tour era, Swift has plenty to look forward to in 2025. The 14-time Grammy winner is up for six more golden gramophones at the award show, including album of the year for TTPD.