Taylor Swift gave P11.4 billion in bonuses to 'The Eras Tour' team—report

Taylor Swift reportedly gave $197 million (P11.4 billion) in bonuses to those who worked on her The Eras Tour, which saw its 149th and final show on Dec. 8 in Canada after a nearly two-year run.

E! News reported that the bonuses covered workers behind the scenes and onstage, including truck drivers, caterers, the merch team, production staff of all levels, carpenters, her dancers and band, security, choreographers, the hair, make-up and wardrobe teams, physical therapists, and her video team.

The American pop superstar performed in Vancouver last weekend for the final show of her record-breaking world tour. 

"We have toured the entire world with this tour, we have had so many adventures," she told the crowd at the BC Stadium. "It has been the most exciting, powerful, electrifying, intense, most challenging thing I’ve ever done in my entire life."

"We’ve got to perform for over 10 million people,” she added, “and tonight we get to play one last show for you here tonight."

E! News reported that the 34-year-old pop megastar also changed the lyrics of the song Long Live for the final show of the tour.

From “It was the end of a decade / But the start of an age,” she made it to, “It was the end of an era / But the start of an age."

Swift had also gifted her team $55 million (P3.18 billion) in bonuses in August 2023 when she wrapped the first North American leg of The Eras Tour, according to the entertainment outlet.

She announced The Eras Tour in November last year, describing it as a journey through the musical eras of her career thus far. The first leg of the tour kicked off in Arizona's State Farm Stadium in March 2023.