{"id":26780,"date":"2025-06-25T22:58:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T22:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=26780"},"modified":"2025-06-25T22:58:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T22:58:04","slug":"breaking-down-how-much-the-dallas-cowboys-players-make-vs-cheerleaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=26780","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Down How Much the Dallas Cowboys Players Make vs Cheerleaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<div data-hook=\"video-only-text\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/20250625\/6c4d9110-64fe-4efc-9ae8-28a0b36ac609_1750884237.jpg?fit=around%7C1024:759&amp;output-quality=90&amp;crop=1024:759;center,top\" alt=\"How Much Dallas Cowboys Players Are Paid vs Cheerleaders\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"segment-text-only\">\n<p>Your favorite football stars are scoring touchdowns on the field <em>and<\/em> at the negotiating table.<\/p>\n<p>While the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders\u2019 earnings rose roughly 400 percent to $75 per hour ahead of the 2025 NFL season, according to <em>The New York Times<\/em>, the new figure is still a fraction of what other key players in the franchise make annually.<\/p>\n<p>The person taking home the biggest paycheck is Cowboys\u2019 quarterback <strong>Dak Prescott<\/strong>, who signed a four-year contract extension valued at $240 million with the team in September. And while the deal made him the highest paid player in the league, the football star didn\u2019t want to focus on money.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope after today we&#8217;re done talking about it and my pockets,\u201d the 31-year-old said at the time to DallasCowboys.com, \u201cand could just move forward and focus on this team and the success that we plan to have and what we&#8217;re working toward.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section><\/section>\n<section>Meanwhile, wide receiver <strong>CeeDee Lamb<\/strong> signed his own four-year deal with the team in August, valued at $136 million or roughly $34 million annually. Even after the deal was restructured in March\u2014resulting in a $20 million savings for the team in 2025, per the Cowboys\u2019 website\u2014the 26-year-old\u2019s salary remains significantly higher than that of the team\u2019s cheer squad.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/townsquare.media\/site\/252\/files\/2025\/06\/attachment-PC-Promo-38.jpg?w=780&amp;q=75\" alt=\"Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Salary Jumps 400 Percent\" \/><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div data-testid=\"segment-text-only\">\n<p>Nonetheless, the pay bump marks a significant increase in earnings for the cheerleaders. After all, <strong>Jada McLean<\/strong>\u2014who was vocal about the need for change on the Netflix series <em>America&#8217;s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders<\/em>\u2014told the <em>NYT <\/em>earlier this month that she made just $15 per hour and $500 per appearance in 2024, with compensation dependent upon experience.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Jada and many of her fellow cheer veterans were hesitant to sign on for another season with the Cowboys, but the performers were evidently quite pleased with how their negotiations turned out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe pushed and we got back good results,\u201d fifth-year dancer\u00a0<strong>Armani Latimer<\/strong>\u00a0said in an episode of the docuseries. \u201cI get emotional knowing that I was a part of that. I love the fact that I made change for the girls that are coming up behind me, even if I\u2019m not getting a chance to benefit.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section><\/section>\n<section><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders earned a pay increase of roughly 400 percent, find out how much money the team\u2019s top earners are bringing home for their work on the football field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dallas-cowboys"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Breaking Down How Much the Dallas Cowboys Players Make vs Cheerleaders - Breaking News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=26780\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Breaking Down How Much the Dallas Cowboys Players Make vs Cheerleaders - 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