{"id":144136,"date":"2025-06-20T05:36:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T05:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/144136\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T05:36:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T05:36:15","slug":"dallas-cowboys-cheerleaders-are-get-400-pay-raise-heading-into-nfl-season-find-out-why-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/144136\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders are get 400% pay raise heading into NFL Season: find out why"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders are getting a massive pay raise following salary criticism after it was discovered the teams waterboys make double the cheerleaders.<\/p>\n

In fact, the Cowboys cheerleader\u2019s salaries have been almost quadrupled heading into the 2025-26 NFL season.<\/p>\n

Season 2 of \u2018America\u2019s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders\u2019 premiered this week on Netflix, and it was revealed that the squad will be receiving an almost 400% pay raise heading into the 2025 NFL season, according to The New York Times<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader, Jada McLean told the Times it was a \u2018drastic change\u2019 and how it can help team members feel more financially secure.<\/p>\n

In 2024, her fifth season on the team, McLean claims she made $15 an hour and $500 for each appearance, explaining how compensation is varied based on your experience. With this new pay bump, the veterans on the cheering squad can now be making more than $75 per hour.<\/p>\n

In 2022, NFL cheerleaders typically earn around $150 per game, making their yearly salary around $22,500. It was reported by the NFL that waterboys made about $53,00 per year and mascots earn $25,000 per year.<\/p>\n

As we all saw in season one of \u2018America\u2019s Sweethearts,\u2019 a lot of the cheerleaders have second or third jobs in order to make ends meet, which shocked producers of the show when they were filming the inaugural season.<\/p>\n

Can\u2019t wait to see what these girls do on the field this Football season!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders are getting a massive pay raise following salary criticism after it was discovered the teams…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2066],"tags":[26970,12493,230,229,257,18459,2461,33265,7,6,8718,33262,33263,33264],"class_list":{"0":"post-144136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-cowboys","8":"tag-americas-sweethearts","9":"tag-compensation","10":"tag-cowboys","11":"tag-dallas","12":"tag-dallas-cowboys","13":"tag-dallas-cowboys-cheerleaders","14":"tag-dallascowboys","15":"tag-financial-security","16":"tag-football","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-nfl-season","19":"tag-pay-raise","20":"tag-salary-criticism","21":"tag-waterboys"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114714075844181076","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}