My business
From your first chair to your own business. Enter your information once — every Money Behind the Chair calculator reuses these numbers, so you never type the same thing twice.
Your saved profile
Save your profile to prefill the calculators. Your numbers stay on this device for now.
Your business
How you work decides which questions we ask you. You can change this any time your career does.
Monthly estimates use 50 working weeks per year. This builds in about 2 weeks away from work, but your actual income may be different if you take additional vacation, sick time, holidays or unpaid time off.
Your money
Tips stay separate from service revenue so nothing gets double-counted.
What does that number mean?
Pick one and every tool here uses the same definition instead of asking again.
Commission describes how you may be paid. It does not by itself determine whether you're an employee or independent contractor. If taxes are withheld from your paycheck, what we show you is an estimate of gross earnings before withholding.
What you personally pay
We only ask about costs you actually carry. Anything the salon pays isn't your expense.
My business at a glance
Annual take-home goal: $0.
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Mentor note
These are working numbers, not a report card. Put in your honest averages — you can always adjust them as your book and your costs change.