Taylor Swift is smashing information and making hundreds of thousands off of her Eras tour — and now she’s paying it ahead to those who make it potential 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 can conclude on August ninth with a formidable six sold-out reveals 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 Shomotion Trucking firm, which suggests 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 truly introduced the checks to our drivers,” Shomotion Trucking CEO Mike Scherkenbach advised TODAY. “And he introduced handwritten letters from Taylor. It is unbelievable that they might take that point, and what it means to our workers to be acknowledged.”
In keeping with 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 staff, stage and manufacturing crew, and her band, with Folks estimating that the overall bonuses add as much as roughly $55 million.
The famous person’s donations are greater than beneficiant, however after 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.
