Beyonce sets the tone for the year: cut your own cheque!

Words Elizabeth Boampong

When it comes to investment opportunities, the first few places you’d think to put your money is in commodities, cryptocurrencies, stocks and shares. Beyonce, on the other hand, had other plans when she was paid $24 million to perform for 73 minutes.

Dubai’s Atlantis The Royal Hotel has been coined the world’s most expensive as it offers £160,000-a-night suites, with complimentary gold-plated toothbrushes, sells Picasso art and contains a 21ft high aquarium, holding 4,000 jellyfish.

Now let’s crunch the numbers.

As of the latest Forbes evaluation, Beyonce currently has a net worth of $500 million. For perspective, this was Beyonce’s first concert performance in 4 years and in one go, she was able to earn 4.8% of her entire net worth. In conclusion, Beyonce would only have to perform approximately 21 more hours to be able to earn her entire net worth. To place more emphasis on how major this is, if we compare the hours that the typical career woman spends working a week, which is 35-40 hours to either earn a salary or generate invoices, Beyonce has clearly made the best investment there is: in her craft and upskilling.

It’s true what they say, that whatever you build, will build you and despite amassing such a grand payout for 73 minutes of “work”, I’m sure we can all appreciate the decades invested in enhancing her skill to be able to minimise the time and effort needed in the long run. With that said, Beyonce has rightfully set the tone for the year: the highest yielding investment is in yourself and in your craft.