Whatever happens with the football team on the field this year, the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders have plenty of reasons to be proud.

As the 2025 NFL season kicks off Sept. 4 with the Cowboys facing off against the defending Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles , the DCC (who make their season debut when the Cowboys host the New York Giants Sept. 14 at AT&T Stadium) will be jump-splitting to the tune of a landmark 400-percent pay raise .

What since-retired cheerleader Jada McLean called a "life-changing" boost in compensation was revealed in June on the second season of the Netflix docuseries America's Sweethearts .

With the wage bump, McLean told the New York Times , veteran DCC members like herself who made $15 an hour in 2024 could make upward of $75 an hour this

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