Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Get 400% Pay Increase Following Negotiations and Multiple Lawsuits

Pro football’s famed Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders have scored a whopping 400 percent pay increase — but sources say the famed, high-kicking chicks had to fight tooth and nail for it after being paid less than waterboys.

Incredibly, while players average $2 million annually, many NFL cheerleaders get just $150 per game, or $22,500 yearly — compared to waterboys, who pull down $53,000 per year, and even goofy mascots pocketing $25,000 per season per NBC Sports Boston.

Their cheer gigs can consume up to 40 hours a week, and with their meager pay, many are forced to hold down day jobs.

But thanks to a series of lawsuits starting in 2018, and gritty negotiations, America’s Sweethearts — the nickname for the Dallas gaggle — can now earn $75,000 a year.

“Our efforts were heard and they wanted to give us a raise,” four-year veteran Megan McElaney says in the Netflix series America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders.

“And we ended up getting a 400 percent increase, which is, like, life-changing.”

Five-year cheer vet Jada McLean told the New York Times she can now score up to $75 per hour after her pathetic 2024 pay of $15 hourly and $500 for an appearance.

The 400 percent increase stems from a 2018 lawsuit by former high-kicker Erica Wilkins, who claimed she was paid a pathetic $7 per hour or $200 per game.

The Cowboys settled the retired dancer’s suit the following year, agreeing to double her per-game pay to $400.

Now, the 400 percent raise rockets earnings for the gals to an estimated $75K annually.

“We pushed and we got back good results,” says Armani Latimer.

Before the lawsuit, ESPN sources say the Dallas cheergals were getting just $75 to $150 per game in 2017.

McLean notes that the Scrooge-like pay had her working jobs in addition to cheering, but the new deal allows them to earn “something people can actually live off of.”

“Because for us all to be struggling financially — I’m kind of over it.”

Earlier, four cheerleaders whacked the Cowboys with an embarrassing peeping-Tom lawsuit, charging the team’s P.R. head Rich Dalrymple secretly filmed them changing in their dressing room.

He denied the shameful charge and Cowboys brass said their investigation found no wrongdoing.

According to ESPN, the Cowboys settled the suit for $2.4 million and Dalrymple retired.