here4support
01-21-2005, 11:27 AM
How much would you tip your hairdresser if she rents out a chair at a privately owned salon. The money I pay her for my haircut $32- goes all to her. She only rents her chair out. So she is actually working for herself. I couldn't imagine tipping 15 to 20% for that..... :angel: :bouncing:
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Blue-eyedBelle
01-21-2005, 11:38 AM
Well, IMHO, part of that still goes to pay for the chair, so it's not all going in her pocket - she's using part of it for expenses. I would still tip 15% - I'd probably just round it off to $5.
rockcreek
01-21-2005, 05:11 PM
My hairdresser is like that too. All the money she makes goes to her. I don't tip her for that reason. I usually get her a Christmas gift or if I see something I think she might like I'll get it for her. (she likes odd colored nail polish) I go every month and it hurts enough just to pay for what I do get done without adding more to it. If she had a problem with it I think she would have said something. Instead she always trys to find time for me. She knows it takes along time to build a business and someone coming 1x a month is steady income.
queenpooch
01-22-2005, 03:44 PM
I always tip, even if he or she is the owner of the salon. What's another $5 if you can find someone who is good with your hair? Besides, generosity takes on a life of it's own. Who knows, maybe that night, that same hairdresser will go out to a restaurant and give the struggling college student a little extra tip. Then the next day, that college student might give the guy at the car wash an extra buck because of the hairdresser's generosity. And so it goes...
Blue70
01-23-2005, 05:39 AM
5 dollars if you like the job she does.
Jenteal
01-23-2005, 10:03 PM
This is the same thread as the one about tipping your hairdresser. No matter if she owns it or rents it I tip 15-20% of the total price. The owner has to either pay rent for the building, or the monthly mortgage bill, the water bill the electric bill, business taxes, insurance for the business, hair products, adverstiment, sometimes health insurance for his employees,etc. The hairdresser that rents the chair pays a fixed amount each month to work there. That helps the owner with some of the expenses but. They are not just there to rent a space and chair they are there to help the owner as the onwer is there to help them with a place to work.
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jenntruxton
01-24-2005, 10:29 PM
"all she does is rent a chair"
do you know how much she pays out for the chair... the least i have heard of a week is 100 dollars..the average i hear is about 300 bucks a week.
i am a hairstylist and trust me renting a chair is sooooooooooooo expensive bc you have to pay for everything down to towel cleaning services.
i would tip the same.
xo jenn
do you know how much she pays out for the chair... the least i have heard of a week is 100 dollars..the average i hear is about 300 bucks a week.
i am a hairstylist and trust me renting a chair is sooooooooooooo expensive bc you have to pay for everything down to towel cleaning services.
i would tip the same.
xo jenn
Soulcatcher
01-24-2005, 10:51 PM
I personally pay up to $300 to get my hair colored and trimmed and SORRY but I am not spending a dime over. I tip waitresses who slave all day with crabby people and work hard. Hair dressers don't have it that bad. IF I were to tip everybody that did things for me I would be soooooo utterly broke. I have to say $32 for a hair cut is crazy. But to each their own. I color my own hair and am fortunate enough that my hair is super long so I can cut it on my own. I learned my lesson after a few times of $300. No longer nuts! hahaha
lisa24
01-25-2005, 02:08 PM
"all she does is rent a chair"
do you know how much she pays out for the chair... the least i have heard of a week is 100 dollars..the average i hear is about 300 bucks a week.
i am a hairstylist and trust me renting a chair is sooooooooooooo expensive bc you have to pay for everything down to towel cleaning services.
i would tip the same.
xo jenn
There are sooo many other jobs out there where people go through the same thing, and they don't get tips.
Like people who run their own business (obviously not a salon business). They struggle as much as anyone else. Hairdressers are not the only ones going thru this.
I don't get tips, and I struggle as much as any average person, tips or not. Why am I 'paying' you to be richer than me. We all chose our jobs. In doing so, we chose what we do or do not get out of our jobs. Nobody "owes" anyone anything. Look-up proper etiquette on tipping - it is optional.
(And I do tip, 10%)
do you know how much she pays out for the chair... the least i have heard of a week is 100 dollars..the average i hear is about 300 bucks a week.
i am a hairstylist and trust me renting a chair is sooooooooooooo expensive bc you have to pay for everything down to towel cleaning services.
i would tip the same.
xo jenn
There are sooo many other jobs out there where people go through the same thing, and they don't get tips.
Like people who run their own business (obviously not a salon business). They struggle as much as anyone else. Hairdressers are not the only ones going thru this.
I don't get tips, and I struggle as much as any average person, tips or not. Why am I 'paying' you to be richer than me. We all chose our jobs. In doing so, we chose what we do or do not get out of our jobs. Nobody "owes" anyone anything. Look-up proper etiquette on tipping - it is optional.
(And I do tip, 10%)
Sugar64
01-25-2005, 05:00 PM
My hairdresser works out of her home, and I still tip her 15 to 20 percent. I never knew if this was correct or not, because some people say they can't or don't accept tips...she has never told me she doesn't, so I'd feel so funny if I didn't tip her.