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Travis Kelce contract extension: How does his net worth compare to Taylor Swift’s?
The world’s most talked-about couple will get an income boost, but his NFL salary is a drop in the ocean compared to his girlfriend’s vast fortune.
Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce has been handed a lucrative new two-year contract with the Super Bowl champions.
The 34-year-old put pen to paper on a new deal worth $34.25 million, with $17 million fully guaranteed for the upcoming 2024 season. This contract extension makes him the highest-paid tight end in the NFL, a fitting reward for the three-time Super Bowl champion.
Kelce has now spent more than a decade in the NFL and has built up an impressive personal wealth during his stellar career. However, it pales in comparison to the vast fortune of popstar girlfriend Taylor Swift.
What is Travis Kelce’s net worth?
According to the prestigious finance magazine Forbes, Kelce’s net worth currently stands at around $40 million. Per NFL money experts Spotrac, his previous base salary was around $14 million per year at the Chiefs, as part of a four-year $57.25 million contract he signed with Kansas City in 2020.
Kelce also has a series of lucrative sponsorship agreements, endorsing brands such as McDonald’s, Nike, Bud Light and State Farm. And thanks to his high-profile romance with Swift, the 34-year-old’s marketing popularity is on the rise. For example, AP reported in September that sales of Kelce’s No. 87 jersey rocketed by 400 percent after Swift was first seen watching her beau at a Chiefs game.
How much is Taylor Swift worth?
Simply put, Swift is in a different financial stratosphere to Kelce. Also 34, Forbes estimate that the 12-time Grammy winner’s net worth is around $1.1 billion. She hit the 10-figure mark last year on the back of her hugely successful Eras Tour.
“Her fortune includes more than $500 million in estimated wealth amassed from royalties and touring, plus a music catalog worth $500 million and some $125 million in real estate,” Forbes says.
In December, entertainment-industry specialists Pollstar revealed that Swift’s ongoing Eras Tour, which comprises more than 150 concerts worldwide, had become the first tour by a music artist to gross over $1 billion.
In addition, Swift’s Eras Tour movie, shot across three shows at Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium in August, has earned over $260m globally since its release in October. The picture’s success led Guinness World Records to recognise it as the top-grossing concert film of all time and earned it a nomination for the Cinematic and Box Office Achievement award at the Golden Globes.