Emotional footage has emerged of Taylor Swift’s crew breaking down in tears as they learn how much of a $US197 million ($295.5 million) haul they will receive in bonuses.

The clip, which is from episode two of the Disney+ docuseries, The End of an Era shows Swift standing with her dancers.

They all hold unopened handwritten thank-you letters, which she asks one to read.

“Dearest Kam, we’ve travelled the world like we set out to do. We dazzled the crowds but we’ve missed family, too,” one, identified as Kameron Saunders, reads.

“My full gratitude doesn’t come from a bank, but here’s … ”

At that point Saunders pauses to catch his breathe. He eventually finishes reading the note but the exact figure is censored with a lengthy bleep.

Some of Saunders’ fellow dancers hold their hands over their eyes and mouths in shock. Others can be seen crying.

Swift’s record-breaking 21-month Eras Tour grossed over $US2 billion ($A3 billion) in ticket sales. Merchandise sales are on top of that.

She has handed out more than $US295 million in bonuses across the entire crew, including $US100,000 ($A150,000) to truck drivers who transported the stage. More money has gone to back-up dancers and the band and singers.

Meanwhile, the first episode of the docuseries shows Swift also weeping. The music megastar gets emotional in the first episode of The End of an Era as she reflects on a foiled terror plot at her Vienna concert and the “horrible” deadly stabbing of three of her young fans in Southport, in Britain, in 2024.

“It’s just kind of a weird feeling going into these last five shows in Europe,” she sayd.

“We’ve done, like 128 shows so far, but this is the first one where I feel like I’m skating on thin ice or something.

“We’ve had a series of very violent, scary things happen to the tour – like, we dodged a massacre situation, so I’ve just been kind of all over the place.”

The Fate of Ophelia singer choked up as she revealed that she would meet the families of Southport victims Alice Da Silva Aguiar, nine, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Bebe King, six, before one of her Eras Tour shows.

“It was little kids,” Swift, 35, said.

“I’m gonna, like, meet some of these families tonight and put on a pop concert, you know? It’s gonna be fine because I’m not gonna do this (crying). I swear to God, I’m not gonna do this. I’m gonna be smiley.

“So any of this gets out of the way before you ever go on stage. You lock it off. [For] 3½ hours, they don’t have to worry about you.”

Swift compared herself to a pilot flying a plane.

“If you were like, ‘Oh, there’s turbulence up ahead. I don’t know if we’re actually gonna land in Dallas. I’m gonna try hard, but I don’t know if I can actually figure out how to land through this turbulence’,” she said.

“Everyone on the plane is going to freak out. You just have to have a calm, cool, collected tone of like, ‘We will be landing in Dallas at 6.05pm. Got a little turbulence up ahead, but it’s nothing we haven’t seen before. Just keep your seatbelts fastened, and welcome to the Eras Tour!”

-with AAP