Taylor Swift shares $197M in bonuses to The Eras Tour crew over the past two years

The first leg of The Eras Tour kicked off in March 2023 in Glendale, Arizona, before concluding in São Paulo on 26 November. After this run of shows, it was reported that Taylor Swift gave her tour bus drivers a bonus of $100,000 each, as well as making charitable acts, helping non-profit companies all throughout The Eras Tour, with a donation to Three Square Food Bank in Southern Nevada, donating to a South Louisiana food bank and helping them provide 75,000 meals to families in need, among many others.

After kicking off the second half of the tour on 7 February in Tokyo, before visiting Australia and Southeast Asia, Swift embarked on another EU/UK tour from May-August before returning to the US to wrap up the tour. It has been reported that Swift has thanked her crew – including dancers, band, security, HMU, production, caterer and more – with bonuses totalling $197 million, across the two years of the tour.

Taylor Swift gave out $197 million in bonuses to everyone who worked on The Eras Tour, PEOPLE reports. pic.twitter.com/s92yVY2rfx

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On the last date of the tour, Swift said to the crowd: "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.”

The Eras Tour is said to have been the highest-grossing tour of all time, with tickets alone grossing in $2.2 billion. After performing her final song in the set, Swift 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.”