NFL Cheerleaders

Do NFL cheerleaders make enough money? NFL cheerleaders make around $10,000 per year. An average teams net worth for an nfl team is more then 2 billion dollars and the cheerleaders only get paid 10k of that. The average amount of money they make per game is around $150 per game. Every team plays 10 home games in a year that always have cheerleaders. 

A few years ago a cheerleader tried to sue the San Francisco 49ers for not paying them enough. There are a lot of restrictions and things you have to do to be a NFL cheerleader. There are many guidelines that they also have to follow. One of the guidelines is that they have to pay a certain amount. Another one is they have to look a certain way to be able to cheer. They can not be in any contact with the NFL players either. 

I think that they should make more money. I think this because they have to go to practices daily and it takes up a lot of their time to be with their family or to get another job. I also think it is there decision to become a cheerleader to so I do not think they can complain all to much if they aren't getting paid enough to be a cheerleader.

 

Should cheerleaders be paid more?

If so how much more?

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  • I think that they should get paid maybe a little bit more then what they are making now  because that would be very time consuming and that is a lot of work for some games, and they have to practice like the players do. I think they should make more then 150 per game.

  • I believe that NFL cheerleaders should be paid more because even though they are not the reason people go to the games or watch the games they are entertaining at half time and other times when football starts getting boring. Plus for every football game they have they get thousands of dollars, so can they really not afford to pay them more? I mean for the industry the kinda money that they get paid is like their spare change. 

  • Cheerleaders should be payed more yes but not equal to football players as theyre part of the show but not the main event.I feel they should be paid at least 18-30,000 a year for what they do so that way if theyre independent or there is no male working they can sustane.

  • I think that cheerleaders should get paid way more than what they have been getting paid. The cheerleaders work really hard to perfection each and every game. They, in my opinion should be getting paid way more than 150 dollars per game because they deserve it. 

  • I think that NFL cheerleaders should get paid a bit more. The teams that these cheerleaders are working for are worth a lot of money. I think that the cheerleaders should be making around $15,000 per season. I think that $15,000 dollars is a fair price since the cheerleaders are working around 4-5 months.

  • I think that NFL Cheerleaders should get paid a bit more but not a lot more because they all probably have other jobs and to get paid 10k for working about 10 nights and practicing in there but still only really work 10 nights that's quite a bit to get paid if you think about it. 

    • I agree with you, working as an NFL cheerleader is not what a lot of these people are doing full time. The time that the cheerleaders are practicing and performing is a lot of work, but they also are only working as cheerleaders for a couple months during football season. 

  • I think cheerleaders should definetly get paid more but not as much as the players. I believe they are getting way too less to live of of right now and need a raise. They all put many hours in practice and for such little pay that is way too low.

    • I agree, they do a lot of work but they dont do as much as the players. They are more than likely working other jobs too outside of cheerleading but I know they deserve more because of the effort they put into what they do. 

    • I agree with you that they should get paid more however I also think that they picked what they wanted to do and they knew how much they were going to paid when they became a cheerleader. I also think that they should get a little more money every year that they stay as a cheerleader.

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