After 65 football seasons, two television shows, and two movies, the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders are finally getting paid.In the seventh episode of the latest season of Netflix’s hugely popular America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, multiple team members revealed that they’d recently received a 400 percent pay raise—a change that DCC director Kelli Finglass called “long overdue.” While the new hourly wage wasn’t disclosed during the episode, a 2017 federal lawsuit the cheerleaders brought against the Cowboys revealed that they were allegedly paid only $8 an hour. That salary was well below the roughly $23-per-hour rate currently considered a “living wage” in the Dallas area, and three times less than the $25-per-hour wage of the Cowboys’ male mascot, Rowdy. Due to the meager rate, the first season…
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