Ed Sheeran has paid himself a salary of £8.4 million after earning £34 million in one year.
The Bad Habits singer - who toured the UK and Europe in 2022 - is estimated to be worth £250 million and saw a boost in profits after the release of new album = and three hit singles.
According to official accounts filed with Companies House, Sheeran, 31, paid himself £8,425,000 this year, after making a profit of £25.6 million in the 2021 financial year.
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The Shivers singer paid £4.8 million in taxes, up on the £4.4m he paid the year before.
Sheeran's £8.4m pay out seems almost modest after he took home £21.3m of his profits in 2020, the year he and wife Cherry Seaborn welcomed their first child, daughter Lyra.
They welcomed a second daughter in May 2022.
The Castle On The Hill singer lives with his family on a sprawling country estate in Framlingham, Suffolk, near where he grew up.
The musician has been caught up in numerous planning disputes over his estate, including over a kidney-shaped ‘wildlife pond’, which local residents opposed his application to build, on the grounds he would use it as a swimming pool.
The pond is surrounded by a man-made beach and has steps and a jetty.
The Shape of You singer now owns six properties on the estate, and has built a treehouse and his own pub in the grounds of what has been dubbed 'Sheeranville' by neighbours.
Sheeran said previously: "I didn't name it that. I actually tried the name of it to The Shire because I love The Hobbit but it got denied."
The singer won a planning battle to build a boat-shaped "prayer retreat” in 2019.
Earlier this year he won a High Court battle against songwriters Sami Chokri and Ross O’Donoghue who filed copyright dispute over his song Shape Of You.
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In 2023 he is due tour Australia, New Zealand and North America.
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