$52,000 a year for part time work or even $16,000 over 16 weeks? They may have been slightly underpaid but lets not get crazy. Did not read the filing for this lawsuit but read the one for the Jills and as far as wages they are looking for around $6700 in wages they were underpaid per year. I would think the Flight Crew would be in the same ballpark
The only problem with making it a salary instead of an hourly paying job is all the other appearances that are sometimes only 2 or 3 of the cheerleaders not the whole crew. They need to just put them on the clock with a decent hourly wage if they are going to keep them.
There are plenty of models who would disagree with that statement, and have the tax returns that prove that that's not correct. Besides the supermodels like Tom Brady's wife (who earns much more than he does), the mid-tier models still earn six-figures. Most NFL cheerleaders have many years of college, high school, and middle school cheerleading experience, and a lot of them have taken years of dance lessons (and/or are professional dance instructors.) That requires a non-trivial amount of skill/talent/effort in addition to just looks. If their team has a Thursday or Monday home game, they have to use up a vacation day at work to be there for the game. They also have to spend a lot of Saturdays rehearsing, so they may well lose a good 8 weekends a year to be cheerleaders. (The cheerleaders don't travel with the teams, they only perform at home games.) In light of all that, I think it'd be fair for them to get $1,000 per game, and $100 per rehearsal. That'd work out to about $10,000 per year, which I think would be reasonable.
I really wish the Jets were the kind of team to get out in front of something like this. While in the grand scheme this is small potatoes for our organization... I wish we were striving towards being considered a "classy organization".
Jets could take what the pay the last string player on the scout team, cut it in half, then cut it in half and again and use it to triple all the Cheerleader's pay. Cheap bastards!
If they put in about 16 hours a week during the weeks of home games, multiply that by 10 games (8 reg. season and 2 pre-season) and you have 160 hours of work. Take your $1000 per game and $100 per practice and for those 10 weeks you are at $11,000 minimum. $11,000/160Hrs.=$68.75/Hr, seems a little steep to me considering that works out to about $150,000 a year if it was full time. Even if they put in 32 hours a week during those 10 weeks it would work out to $34/Hr. They want to make $34-$68 an hour there are places they can make that dancing but it ain't going to be on the sidelines.
So restructuring to $10-15 an hour, and counting all the time put in, gets them less money but makes it all legit and they'll still have a few hundred come to the tryouts. Be careful what you wish for ladies...
Minimum wage in NJ is 7.25 making the pay for a full 40 hour work week $290. I'm going to assume the Jets aren't paying them for 40 hours because they'd be on the hook for healthcare. Anyway let's say its part time which would make the work week 20 hours (16 hours for practice and 4 hours gameday), making $150 figure about right. The thing that stinks is forced hawking of calenders without a split of the take and not covering extenuating expenses surrounding an appearance. The real question is if the appearances are requirements. If they are required then the promotional event is a business trip imho and should be covered as such. The other thing to consider is just how far out of the way the events may or may not be making that $100 fee worthless if they need to spend half of it getting to the appearance, of course again this all falls back on if it's required to show up or not. I'll say this though, if they are looking to for something substantial, I believe somebody mentioned 1k a week, then you better get ready to take "jiggle tests" and all other types of crap because that's a-lot of cash to do what ALL high school and college cheerleaders do for free.
