Taylor Swift’s VERY generous bonuses for her Eras Tour crew revealed after making a record-breaking $2 BILLION

Taylor Swift has made history after racking up a record $2 billion in ticket sales for her career-spanning, 21-month Eras Tour, which consisted of 149 shows in 21 countries.

In addition to having the highest-grossing tour of all time for the second year in a row, the 34-year-old pop star became the first to have a $2 billion tour.

The fourteen-time Grammy winner sold no less than $2,077,618,725 in tickets, according to the newspaper. New York Timeswhich the song confirmed with Swift’s camp after she took her final bow at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver, British Columbia on Sunday night.

Last year, her massive tour, which filled stadiums and inspired Swifties to make countless friendship bracelets, became the first to cross the billion-dollar mark.

As a reward for her team, Swift quietly handed out more than ‘$197 million in bonuses to everyone who worked on her tour – including truck drivers, caterers, instrument technicians, merchandise team, lighting, sound, production staff and assistants, carpenters, dancers, band, security, choreographers , pyrotechnics, riggers, hair, make-up, wardrobe, physiotherapists and video team,” said People.

This comes just over a year after it was revealed that she handed out $100,000 in bonuses to her truck drivers, who were responsible for transporting her equipment across the country during the US leg of her tour.

Per TMZshe handed out the huge six-figure bonuses to the workers before her in Santa Clara, California.

At the time, the publication stated that there were approximately 50 production truck drivers participating in the American leg of the tour, meaning that if she had indeed paid $100,000 in bonuses, she would have written a check for more than $5 million.

In October, the Cruel Summer hitmaker officially became the world’s richest female music artist, with a net worth of $1.6 billion, according to Forbes.

The Fortnight artist – who, according to Forbes, has a real estate portfolio estimated at around $125 million – achieved the financial feat of becoming a billionaire solely through her musical endeavors, royalties and concerts.

Amid a business dispute with music mogul Scooter Braun over her catalogue, Swift recorded new versions of her material on her first six records and began releasing them three years ago.

The results were hugely profitable, with the Eras Tour creating such high demand that the United States Congress began inquiring into Ticketmaster regarding its views on concert ticket sales.

Over the summer, Pollstar editor Andy Gensler predicted that Swift’s Eras Tour was on track to reach $2 billion, not including resale inflation and the hundreds of millions she made from merchandise.

“She is the torchbearer for the live industry,” Gensler told Variety. “It’s nothing we’ve ever seen before, and it will be a long time before we see it again.”

He continued, “Her timing was exquisite: the pandemic created this desire and hunger for live entertainment like nothing else in our history, so she couldn’t have picked a better time to go out.”

Additionally, the Eras Tour film, released last fall before the tour ended, grossed more than $180 million domestically and $261 million worldwide, beating the records of Justin Bieber’s concert film in the U.S. and Michael Jackson’s be surpassed worldwide, per Variety.

Previously, Swift’s Reputation stadium tour in 2018 broke Taylor’s own record for the highest-grossing tour by a female artist on that continent, previously held during the 1989 World Tour, as it grossed $202.3 million in just 53 shows.

The overwhelming demand for tickets for The Eras Tour caused Ticketmaster’s system to crash in November 2022.

Despite setting a record with 2 million tickets sold in one day, the blame lay with the ticketing platform and not Swift herself.

In August, Swift was forced to abruptly cancel three shows in Vienna due to a foiled terror attack plot.

After finishing the European leg of the Eras Tour later that month, she admitted on social media that the incident “filled her with a new sense of dread” and “huge guilt.”

‘It was devastating that our shows in Vienna were cancelled. “The reason for the cancellations filled me with a new sense of dread and an enormous amount of guilt because so many people were planning to come to those shows,” she said.

The star then thanked authorities who helped take proper safety measures.

She said: ‘I was also so grateful to the authorities because thanks to them we were mourning concerts and not lives.

“I was encouraged by the love and unity I saw from the fans coming together. I decided that all my energy should go into helping protect the almost half a million people who came to see the shows in London.

“My team and I have worked closely with the stadium staff and the British authorities every day to achieve that goal, and I would like to thank them for everything they have done for us.”

Taylor also explained why she had chosen to remain silent about the circumstances until that point, confessing that her priority was to safely complete the European leg of the tour.

She wrote: “Let me be very clear: I am not going to speak publicly about anything if I think doing so might provoke people who want to harm the fans who come to my shows.

‘In cases like this, ‘silence’ is actually showing restraint, and waiting to express yourself when the time is right. My priority was to complete our European tour safely, and it is with great relief that I can say we have done that.”