“The companies that were coming in to manage the Super Bowl and manage all these events didn’t have a proper understanding of the pay rates they were going to need to operate within the Twin Cities marketplace,” Jerome Gerber, VP of Award Staffing, told the Star Tribune newspaper in Minneapolis. His firm has had to turn down jobs that weren’t paying a minimum of $16 an hour because of the competition that week. The Super Bowl is taking place Feb. 4 at US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis.