Why do cheerleaders of NFL and NBA work for only about $10 per hour?
The cheerleaders (or dancers) are beautiful and tall. They could get a better paid job elsewhere. Especially, the cheerleaders for Portland Blazers are paid only the minimum wage per hour. One of the reasons they choose to stay at the cheerleader job is that they get paid sufficiently from extra jobs. They perform at many local events and get paid enough to compensate the lower wage. Besides, they are waiting for opportunities to be picked by entertainment business agents such as film directors, TV program producers, or model agencies. Or, the fact itself that they are the cheerleaders of Dallas Cowboys or any NFL or NBA team makes them be proud of themselves. For the cheerleaders, the benefit, high extra wages, potentials to be movie stars, and self-satisfaction, is greater than the cost, low wage. Those benefits are so great that a large number of beautiful women compete to be cheerleaders, i.e., the supply for the cheerleaders are larger than the demand. Consequently, the equilibriu
