@skatting44 wrote:
@JeanLouiseFinch
Your umbrage is out of line with what I said .
I was comparing oranges to oranges .
Both professions one must pay for formal education, both must pay for a license ( nurses now bi yearly @ $165 ) along with background check fees and pay for mandatory continuing education hours .
Registered Nurse pay ranges
- 75th Percentile: ~$48.60 per hour
- Top 90% (Highly Experienced): $62.21+ per hour
I said that hair stylists
" They just need to charge an appropriate rate for their services .
By that I meant taking in consideration of their business expenses , but doesn't everyone who has a job have expenses to beable to work ?
In my area hair stylists charges abt $100 an hour ."
So, is that $100 an hour enough for a stylist to charge ?
@skatting44 - First if all, BOTH pay for their education and training. The requirements may be different but they both still pay. Hairstylist have to pass a state board in order to practice, have to pay to keep their license current, and pay for their own continuing education. You really seem to be looking down your nose at the hairstyling profession. Your suggestion of the stylist owing the client a tip is tacky and insulting. How quickly one forgets when the stylist came in early or stayed late, to accommodate them, or shaved a little off the bill as a kindness. Or when they wept with the client who was going through chemo and asked for their head to be shaved. Or when they have lent a listening ear to the client who is struggling with one thing or another but then have to be perky and welcoming to the next person who sits in their chair.
I’m saying a stylist should be able to charge according to their level of expertise. A beginner should not make the same as a master stylist. I doubt any stylist anywhere consistently makes $100/hr. every time they work unless they are at a very hoyty-toyty salon in a big metropolitan area. My daughter is a master stylist. She can have back to back colors all day one day and just a few haircuts the next while hoping a good walk-in shows up. Or she could have someone in her book and they cancel at the last minute and have to reschedule.
The two professions, nursing and hairstyling, cannot be compared apples to apples or oranges to oranges when it comes to wages. A nurse is paid an hourly rate and the paycheck is calculated (minus withholding) for the hours clocked during the pay period regardless if he/she has a low or high census on any given day. A hairstylist has no guaranteed income for just showing up. He/she charges by the service performed whether it’s a child’s haircut or a long hair specialty color with toner, conditioning treatment, cut, blow dry, style, eyebrows, etc. A simple haircut could cost $35 and they are done in 20 minutes. If they have no other clients in the remaining 40 minutes, that means they only made $35/hr. If it’s a slow day with no other appointments for a couple hours, then the stylist only made $17.50/hr. Or that big service could be the only client all day so a $240 service in a 6 hour shift comes down to $40/hr. Walk-in clients are shared among all the stylists in rotation and it all luck. One stylist may get a walk-in haircut and someone else may get a walk-in color. And, keep in mind, the hairstylist doesn’t keep the entire amount of the charge for any service. The shop (or shop owner) gets a portion of that service so the stylist’s actual income is about 50-60% of what I just calculated and they still have to pay their taxes out of that.
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