Taylor Swift paid her concert crew $55 million in bonuses after the Eras Tour. The tour generated hundreds of millions in local spending per city and made her a billionaire, an economic scale unprecedented for a pop artist.
Why is Taylor Swift paying the workers at her concerts over $55 million in bonuses? This tour is going on to make her a billionaire. And it's also adding hundreds of millions of dollars to any of the cities and local economies that she visits. She is paying her workers, you know, truck drivers and people hauling around this equipment, millions of dollars in bonuses. And it's only just kicked off the international tour. And what's even wilder is when she cancels a concert, it is having a negative effect on people's economies. When she does show up, it's not three days that she's there. It's in the week that leads up. We're talking about record numbers of occupation in hotels, in Airbnbs, people going out and spending in restaurants. This is a phenomenon that we have never seen with a pop artist before.
