Salon service price calculator

For independent stylists, nail techs, lash and brow artists and estheticians. Enter your rent, other fixed costs, the hours you actually have booked and what you want to take home. You get what your chair costs per booked hour and the price for one service that pays you that take-home after product and card fees. Nothing is saved or sent anywhere.

Your month worked example: replace with your own numbers

Booth or suite rent ($) Rent is paid per Other fixed costs per month ($) Working days per month Hours per working day Booked % of those hours Target take-home per month ($)

The service

Service time (minutes) Product / backbar per service ($) Card processing % Card fixed fee per payment ($)

Other fixed costs: booking software, insurance (yearly ÷ 12), education, phone and anything else you pay each month whether you are busy or not. Booked % is the share of your working hours spent with paying clients. Service time is the time the service blocks in your book, including set-up and clean-up. The price is rounded to the cent before card fees are worked out.

How it works

Rent per month = weekly rent × 52 ÷ 12 (or your monthly rent). Booked hours = working days × hours per day × booked %. Chair cost per booked hour = fixed costs per month ÷ booked hours. Take-home per booked hour = target take-home ÷ booked hours. Price = (product + chair cost + take-home for the service minutes + card fixed fee) ÷ (1 − card %).

Worked example (the values above): rent of $300 a week is $300 × 52 ÷ 12 = $1,300.00 a month, and with $140.00 of other fixed costs your chair costs $1,440.00 a month. 20 days × 8 hours = 160 hours, and 75% booked is 120 booked hours, so the chair costs $1,440.00 ÷ 120 = $12.00 per booked hour, and a $4,000.00 take-home needs $4,000.00 ÷ 120 = $33.33 per booked hour. For a 60-minute service with $3.00 of product: $3.00 + $12.00 + $33.33 + $0.15 = $48.48, divided by (1 − 3%) is $49.98. Card fees on $49.98 are $49.98 × 3% + $0.15 = $1.65, which leaves $49.98 − $3.00 − $12.00 − $1.65 = $33.33 for you.

The booked % matters most: the same costs spread over fewer booked hours make every service dearer to deliver. Compare booth rent with commission, or see all calculators.