The Super Bowl is one of the highest grossing annual events in the nation, but cheerleaders in the National Football League are paid so little on average that their pleats skirt the federal poverty line.
The whole Superbowl stadium knew the words to Rihanna's"B— Better Have My Money," but the cheerleaders really sang it from the heart.
The 49ers are the outlier, according to data from Comparably. The Gold Rush Girls make 51% more than the national average salary for a highly experienced cheerleader in the lower 48 — $102,830 annually. "Besides looking good, I was expected to act like an angel. While our code of conduct required us to act like nuns, strangers got away with groping us," she wrote."The real motive of cheering isn't money anyway — most girls, myself included, become addicted to the pseudo-celebrity status that comes with those pom-poms."Super Bowl ending brings Niners flashbacks, Crabtree's short tweet says all Warning: This story contains references to the 2013 Super Bowl.
Former Jills cheerleaders alleged that they were not compensated hourly and were disrespected and overly sexualized on the job — including being forced to participate in what plaintiffs called the"jiggle test," where coaches judged how much fat moved on each woman when she jumped to determine who would be allowed to perform at the game that weekend.
"They’re told, 'A million girls want your job.' Their treatment is shocking," said Drexel A. Bradshaw, the lawyer representing the cheerleaders in the suit, in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter.
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