--- title: The Cleveland Cavs Are Giving Championship Rings to Every Employee (Including Janitors) description: Following the Cleveland Cavaliers' 2016 NBA championship, Dan Gilbert is giving every employee a custom ring. authors: - name: Kristen Bahler role: Managing Editor url: https://money.com/author/kristen-bahler/ bio: Kristen Bahler has spent more than a decade turning culture, work and consumer spending trends into conversation-driving stories. Today, she leads Money's sponsored content channel and reader-favorite franchises like Best Places to Live and Best Places to Travel. education: Northeastern University, MA Journalism at_money_since: 2016 articles: 52 covers: - Lifestyle - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit - Credit Cards - Economy and Politics - Education - Health and Wellness - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Pets - Professional Services - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes - Technology social: - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristen-bahler/ published: '2016-09-29T15:46:32.000Z' modified: '2024-02-23T09:45:52.000Z' section: Lifestyle tags: - Basketball - pubdesk - Sports word_count: 227 canonical: https://money.com/cleveland-cavaliers-championship-rings/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![Cleveland Cavaliers fans](https://img.money.com/2016/09/162909_em_cavalierrings.jpg) *Cleveland Cavaliers fans celebrate as the team arrives home to a welcome party in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S., June 20, 2016.* Lebron James' cool $22.97 million salary may be the highest in the NBA, but he's not the only Cleveland Cavalier profiting from the team's winning season. Cav's owner Dan Gilbert and his partners are giving more than 1,000 full and part-time employees throughout the team's franchise a custom 2016 NBA championship ring, [Cleveland.com](http://www.cleveland.com/cavs/index.ssf/2016/09/cavs_owner_dan_gilbert_giving.html) reports. That includes all the people that work behind the scenes at the Quicken Loans Arena, as well as employees for Aramark, the contractor that supplies the food for every home game. The rings will run the Cavalier's at least $1 million, and could cost a lot more. The announcement follows a similar move by the Lake Erie Monsters, a Cleveland-based professional hockey team that shares a building with the Cavaliers — and that Gilbert also owns. After the Monsters won the American Hockey Leagues's (AHL) Calder Cup this summer, Gilbert awarded every employee involved with the team's operations with rings —including some who work for National Hockey League (NHL) affiliate the Columbus Blue Jackets. The Cavaliers employees currently being sized for custom rings include: - Ticket takers - Janitors - Seat ushers - Security guards - Police officers - Food vendors - Cashiers The paper notes however, that "of course, not every team employee will get the same, diamond crusted ring that's going to rest on the fingers of James, Kyrie Irving, Kevin Love and other players from last season." ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/cleveland-cavaliers-championship-rings/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Lifestyle", "item": "https://money.com/lifestyle/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Sports", "item": "https://money.com/sports/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "The Cleveland Cavs Are Giving Championship Rings to Every Employee (Including Janitors)" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/cleveland-cavaliers-championship-rings/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/cleveland-cavaliers-championship-rings/", "name": "The Cleveland Cavs Are Giving Championship Rings to Every Employee (Including Janitors)", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2016-09-29T15:46:32.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/cleveland-cavaliers-championship-rings/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/cleveland-cavaliers-championship-rings/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2024-02-23T09:45:52.000Z" }, { "@type": "Article", "headline": "The Cleveland Cavs Are Giving Championship Rings to Every Employee (Including Janitors)", "articleSection": "Lifestyle", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://img.money.com/2016/09/162909_em_cavalierrings.jpg", "width": 2100, "height": 1400, "caption": "162909_EM_CAVALIERRINGS" } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Kristen Bahler", "url": "https://money.com/author/kristen-bahler/", "@id": "https://money.com/author/kristen-bahler/#author", "description": "Kristen Bahler has spent more than a decade turning culture, work and consumer spending trends into conversation-driving stories. 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