June 18, 2025 • 6 mins
💠What’s it really worth to wear the star? In this eye-opening episode of The Ben and Skin Show, the crew dives deep into the pay raise for the iconic Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders—and the numbers will blow your mind.Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray break down the cheerleaders’ shocking former salary (just $22,000 a year!) and the long-overdue 400% raise that’s finally giving these hardworking performers a taste of what they deserve. But it’s not just about the money—it’s about the prestige, the grind, and the absurdity of being paid less than a mall kiosk worker while representing a $9 billion franchise.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And skin Show ninety seven point one The Eagle coming
(00:02):
up at the bottom of the hour. Is your favorite
band playing the State Fair this year? We'll give you
all the details, but right now it's time for this.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
And now it's time for Bass week Day Up Day,
featuring veteran news anchor kt fon tweets. Here are the
important stories he's currently tracking from around the world.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
All Right, the Cherry Jones is gonna have to reach
into his pocket a little bit here because we're finding
out that the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders are about to get
a huge pay raise. The reason I wanted to do
this story is because I wanted you guys to guess
how what they make now, oh dude, and what they
will be making after this pay raise. Now they were
(00:44):
outed in a couple Was it a documentary about this?
Now they've got a big Netflix show that's kind of popular.
Now didn't have the.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Reality show that is the many years? I have a question.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Is the reality show that was on the Nashville Network
different than the whatever happening on Netflix? I wish I
knew dude, like for the longest time.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
And what's your name?
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Kelly? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Yeah, Kelly.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
She was like on it and it was it was
it was whatever that country music TV station is, and
it was on there forever. Yeah, And so then I
started seeing Netflix commercials and I didn't know if it
was the same thing that moved over.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
It's it looks like the same thing, but I haven't
watched it, so I don't know. Okay, I don't know
for sure.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
I mean, dude, they were it was almost like you
lose money being a Cowboys cheerleader.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Yeah, yeah, well they've always had.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
That's always been kind of the thing, like the Cowboys
organization will underpay you so you can have that star
in your business card or the prestige of working there.
That's always been a thing they do.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yeah, And if they used that with their players too,
instead of making them the highest paid players their position
every time, it would really pay off. But it doesn't
really necessarily work that way. So the end iny of
being a cheerleader, how do you.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Know that.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Got to guess higher lower?
Speaker 1 (02:07):
What their average annual salary of a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader was.
This is reported in twenty twenty two. So I thought
they just got paid on game day and it was
like three hundred bucks or something.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
It is. I can I can back that.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I can tell you, based on what they made per hour,
what they would have made for a full year.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Okay, so are we doing the full year. Yeah, let's
say that they were making seven grand a year.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yeah, I was okay, I was going to say five, twelve.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Grand higher, oh, twenty five lower.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Okay, twenty higher, twenty two higher, twenty three lower.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Wait, that's impossible, twenty two five, twenty two five, Okay,
there you go.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Credit.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Yeah, that's like a part time not even a part
time job.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Even though they have an overall evaluation of nine billion dollars,
they're paying the cheerleaders fifteen to twenty bucks an hour,
or twenty two to five average gnually if you if
you work a forty Yeah, so that's the thing. They're
not working forty hour work weeks. They're getting paid hourly
to show up at a sanit Dale train camps in
(03:10):
small a couple times. Basically, fifteen an hour covers their gas.
You gotta go to a car wash, yeah, Post Malone's
going to be at Canes, right, you get to show
up to that.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
And that's just a select few, and they're basically they're
just leveraging that to hopefully marry a hedge fun guy
that lives in Uptown. So basically this h finally is
this is happening this year? Uh they're getting a four
hundred percent pay raise. WHOA, So they're making one hundred
(03:42):
dollars an hour, yes, which would be about seventy thousand, right,
twenty two to five times four.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
If they work a forty hour work week, which none
of them do. Would be none of them?
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Some do probably, right, how, I think there's stuff they whouse.
They just go stand in front of the star with
their pompom. Now there's some merch that's got to be handled.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
And I think they have appearances constantly.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
You need to watch that show because they show like
how often they have to go work out, go over
the dances.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
Like they have their own bus too. Let's just they're
constantly getting bussed around to different things. Is it that
same bush Lacewell used to hang out on. It was
one we were on for some reason. Oh, we were
on it at that MAVs fantasy camp thing.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
They rented it. Oh that's right. It was a good bus.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Yeah, okay, so it was quite the fantasy most of
the cheerleaders have full time or part time jobs in
addition to the role with the Cowboys. Charlotte Jones has
defended this cheerleader salary, pointing out the limited opportunities to
dance professionally, especially for an NFL team. But now they are,
you know, changing that and they're all going to get
paid now, so pressure the Cowboys think about what we act, well,
(04:51):
they were about what we were just talking about though,
the availability of the work. You said most of them
have full time jobs or part time jobs. So a
full time job and they're getting how many hours for
the Cowboys? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Yeah, yeah, What does that have to do with the mall? Huh?
Speaker 1 (05:07):
They had to go to the mall?
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Okay, it's fantastic, all right?
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Is that?
Speaker 3 (05:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
That's a that's a story that I think I should
probably care more about, but I don't. I need to
watch the show. Yeah, there's no way I'm going to
watch the show. I've watched it a few times. It's
pretty good. It's pretty good. It's interesting to see all
the stuff they have to go through. It's hard, it's
very difficult.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
You watched it all, Christina.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
I haven't watched it all. Like Ben, just a few episodes,
but seriously, they do a lot. Good for them.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
They dance horses. What fantasy Leo's come back to horses.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
I wonder how much the Rangers six shooters make. Oh
that's nothing, sorry, oh free. I tried out for it
and I was told how much they made, and I
was like, now I'm good out.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
But you get to maybe one day meet Ray Davis.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
Yeah all right? Uh coming up next. In music news,
the State Fair has announced their music lineup. We'll talk
about it next
And skin Show ninety seven point one The Eagle coming
(00:02):
up at the bottom of the hour. Is your favorite
band playing the State Fair this year? We'll give you
all the details, but right now it's time for this.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
And now it's time for Bass week Day Up Day,
featuring veteran news anchor kt fon tweets. Here are the
important stories he's currently tracking from around the world.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
All Right, the Cherry Jones is gonna have to reach
into his pocket a little bit here because we're finding
out that the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders are about to get
a huge pay raise. The reason I wanted to do
this story is because I wanted you guys to guess
how what they make now, oh dude, and what they
will be making after this pay raise. Now they were
(00:44):
outed in a couple Was it a documentary about this?
Now they've got a big Netflix show that's kind of popular.
Now didn't have the.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Reality show that is the many years? I have a question.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Is the reality show that was on the Nashville Network
different than the whatever happening on Netflix? I wish I
knew dude, like for the longest time.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
And what's your name?
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Kelly? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Yeah, Kelly.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
She was like on it and it was it was
it was whatever that country music TV station is, and
it was on there forever. Yeah, And so then I
started seeing Netflix commercials and I didn't know if it
was the same thing that moved over.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
It's it looks like the same thing, but I haven't
watched it, so I don't know. Okay, I don't know
for sure.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
I mean, dude, they were it was almost like you
lose money being a Cowboys cheerleader.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Yeah, yeah, well they've always had.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
That's always been kind of the thing, like the Cowboys
organization will underpay you so you can have that star
in your business card or the prestige of working there.
That's always been a thing they do.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yeah, And if they used that with their players too,
instead of making them the highest paid players their position
every time, it would really pay off. But it doesn't
really necessarily work that way. So the end iny of
being a cheerleader, how do you.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Know that.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Got to guess higher lower?
Speaker 1 (02:07):
What their average annual salary of a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader was.
This is reported in twenty twenty two. So I thought
they just got paid on game day and it was
like three hundred bucks or something.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
It is. I can I can back that.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I can tell you, based on what they made per hour,
what they would have made for a full year.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Okay, so are we doing the full year. Yeah, let's
say that they were making seven grand a year.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yeah, I was okay, I was going to say five, twelve.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Grand higher, oh, twenty five lower.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Okay, twenty higher, twenty two higher, twenty three lower.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Wait, that's impossible, twenty two five, twenty two five, Okay,
there you go.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Credit.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Yeah, that's like a part time not even a part
time job.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Even though they have an overall evaluation of nine billion dollars,
they're paying the cheerleaders fifteen to twenty bucks an hour,
or twenty two to five average gnually if you if
you work a forty Yeah, so that's the thing. They're
not working forty hour work weeks. They're getting paid hourly
to show up at a sanit Dale train camps in
(03:10):
small a couple times. Basically, fifteen an hour covers their gas.
You gotta go to a car wash, yeah, Post Malone's
going to be at Canes, right, you get to show
up to that.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
And that's just a select few, and they're basically they're
just leveraging that to hopefully marry a hedge fun guy
that lives in Uptown. So basically this h finally is
this is happening this year? Uh they're getting a four
hundred percent pay raise. WHOA, So they're making one hundred
(03:42):
dollars an hour, yes, which would be about seventy thousand, right,
twenty two to five times four.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
If they work a forty hour work week, which none
of them do. Would be none of them?
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Some do probably, right, how, I think there's stuff they whouse.
They just go stand in front of the star with
their pompom. Now there's some merch that's got to be handled.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
And I think they have appearances constantly.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
You need to watch that show because they show like
how often they have to go work out, go over
the dances.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
Like they have their own bus too. Let's just they're
constantly getting bussed around to different things. Is it that
same bush Lacewell used to hang out on. It was
one we were on for some reason. Oh, we were
on it at that MAVs fantasy camp thing.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
They rented it. Oh that's right. It was a good bus.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Yeah, okay, so it was quite the fantasy most of
the cheerleaders have full time or part time jobs in
addition to the role with the Cowboys. Charlotte Jones has
defended this cheerleader salary, pointing out the limited opportunities to
dance professionally, especially for an NFL team. But now they are,
you know, changing that and they're all going to get
paid now, so pressure the Cowboys think about what we act, well,
(04:51):
they were about what we were just talking about though,
the availability of the work. You said most of them
have full time jobs or part time jobs. So a
full time job and they're getting how many hours for
the Cowboys? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Yeah, yeah, What does that have to do with the mall? Huh?
Speaker 1 (05:07):
They had to go to the mall?
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Okay, it's fantastic, all right?
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Is that?
Speaker 3 (05:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
That's a that's a story that I think I should
probably care more about, but I don't. I need to
watch the show. Yeah, there's no way I'm going to
watch the show. I've watched it a few times. It's
pretty good. It's pretty good. It's interesting to see all
the stuff they have to go through. It's hard, it's
very difficult.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
You watched it all, Christina.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
I haven't watched it all. Like Ben, just a few episodes,
but seriously, they do a lot. Good for them.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
They dance horses. What fantasy Leo's come back to horses.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
I wonder how much the Rangers six shooters make. Oh
that's nothing, sorry, oh free. I tried out for it
and I was told how much they made, and I
was like, now I'm good out.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
But you get to maybe one day meet Ray Davis.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
Yeah all right? Uh coming up next. In music news,
the State Fair has announced their music lineup. We'll talk
about it next
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