- A single Bad Bunny or Karol G stadium show runs on a traveling core of roughly 100 to 130 riggers, carpenters and technicians, plus hundreds of local stagehands hired city by city to build and strike the set.
- Karol G's new tour needs 100 trucks just to haul its stage across the United States, while Bad Bunny's touring career has now crossed $1 billion in gross ticket revenue, a first for any Latin artist.
- Studies of what Bad Bunny's 31-show homecoming residency in San Juan put into Puerto Rico's economy range from $53.5 million to $713 million, depending on which firm ran the numbers.
- A certified rigger, who installs the trusses holding up lights and screens, typically earns $20 to $30 an hour, with no guarantee of steady work between tours.
Nobody buys a ticket to watch a rigger. But without one, there's no truss to hang the screens on, no screens to show Bad Bunny's face to the back row, and no show at all. Behind the artists filling stadiums night after night sits an almost entirely uncredited workforce, and this year that workforce has never had more work to do.
