Taylor Swift is smashing information and making tens of millions off of her Eras tour — and now she’s paying it ahead to those who make it attainable to hit each cease alongside the best way.
TMZ revealed that Swift gifted all manufacturing truck drivers on the highway a cool $100,000 bonus every final week as she finishes the U.S. leg of her tour, which is able to conclude on August ninth with a formidable six sold-out exhibits in Inglewood’s SoFi Stadium earlier than she heads to Mexico on the twenty fourth.
Swift has 50 truck drivers engaged on her tour by way of Shomotion Trucking firm, which implies the bonuses she doled out for the drivers alone totaled $5 million.
Taylor Swift performs onstage throughout Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour at Levi’s Stadium on July 28, 2023 in Santa Clara, California. (Getty Photographs)
“Her father was the one that really introduced the checks to our drivers,” Shomotion Trucking CEO Mike Scherkenbach advised TODAY. “And he introduced handwritten letters from Taylor. It is unimaginable that they’d take that point, and what it means to our workers to be acknowledged.”
In response to Certainly, the common wage for a truck driver within the U.S. is round $84,000.
Swift additionally reportedly gave bonuses to her backup dancers, catering group, stage and manufacturing crew, and her band, with Folks estimating that the entire bonuses add as much as roughly $55 million.
The famous person’s donations are greater than beneficiant, however after taking a look at her tour earnings, it would simply be a blip on her radar.
It has been estimated that Swift will earn over $1 billion by the top of the worldwide leg of the Eras Tour, making it the highest-grossing tour of all time, and out-earning Elton John’s historic Farewell Yellow Brick Street Tour, which grossed roughly $853 million.
Swift’s estimated internet value pre-tour is $740 million.
