Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders get ‘400 percent increase’ in pay after show

Dallas ‘cowboys’ cheerlers have marked the victory this time.

The second season of Netflix Docuseries America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys CheerleadersWho was published on Wednesday, reveals that women won a great increase.

“‘Happy’ is not even the right word for that. It was a bit like relief, as if everything had paid off. And finally, we have finished fighting.” Former cheerleader Jada McLean.

During season 1, women talked about their need to work on other jobs during their mandate, which is a cultural and long term of the team, which includes hours of compulsory practices, games and other appearances.

In the seventh and last episode of this season, Megan McElaney, who is a fourth -year veteran, explained what had happened after some of the women approached the organization’s leadership at the start of the season.

“Our efforts have been heard and they wanted to give us an increase,” said the Oceanside cheerleader, in California. “And we ended up obtaining an increase of 400%, which changes life.”

Team members were pressure for a wage hike for years. In an unfair legal action of 2018, the former cheerleader Erica Wilkins said that it had received about $ 7 an hour, no additional salary and a flat rate of $ 200 for each appearance of a match. In 2019, after Wilkins settled the trial with the team, the cheerlers received $ 400 per match, according to the Associated Press.

Forbes The magazine has appointed the most precious Cowboys 2024 NFL team for the ninth consecutive year, with $ 10.1 billion, in a list published in August.

America lovers The women follows, as well as their coach Kelli Finglass (his official title is the main director) and Judy Trammell, their lead choreographer, through exhausting tests and in -depth preparation for the matches.

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Some other things have also changed since the team’s start in 1961 or even from another reality show on the DCC, CMT Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders: Make the teambroadcast between 2006 and 2021.

Women do not intend to speak as much about the requirement to keep their bodies in search of a certain way, although they still have to carry these tiny blue and white sets.

“Each cheerleader has a tailor-made uniform for its shape and they are in hand,” said Finglass E! News In June 2024. “And apart from trying to simply make this uniform and make the best, the most beautiful lines, we are not talking about weight or things like that.”

America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders is available now on Netflix.