Burning Man introduces “scaled” ticketing for 2025 following financial woes

Burning Man has announced that it is introducing a tiered ticket system for this year’s festival with passes ranging from $550 to $3000 — the cheapest will be available to those who are first in the queue to snap up passes.

Tickets for the Nevada-based festival will go on sale on Wednesday (February 12), with those registered being offered the opportunity to contribute more for their ticket in order for the festival to offer lower-cost “Ticket Aid” passes and “Honoraria art grants and underwrite key Black Rock City operational costs.”

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Prospective attendees can buy tickets for $550, $650, $750, $950, $1,500 and $3,000 at a first come first serve basis. Burning Man’s “Ticket Aid” programme will allow those on a lower income to apply for a limited number of $225 passes.

Taking over Nevada’s Black Rock Desert for six days this August, Burning Man has rolled out the new “scaled” ticketing programme off the back of serious financial struggles for organisers following a $5.7 million shortfall due to lack of attendance in 2024.

Last year, Burning Man didn’t sell out for the first time in a decade, and organisers being forced to appeal for donations of around $20 million in October in order to ensure the festival would be able to go ahead in 2025.

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“The big revenue shortfall causing today’s cash crunch is primarily from 2024 Black Rock City higher-priced tickets not selling as planned,” CEO Marian Goodell said in a statement at the time.

You can sign up for tickets to Burning Man 2025 until 12:00PM (Pacific Time) on February 11 via the fesitval’s website.

Megan Townsend is Mixmag’s Deputy Editor, follow her on Twitter