Team & staff
Booth Rental vs Commission: How US Salons Classify, Pay and Profit
Booth rental or commission? How the IRS and ABC tests classify stylists, what you owe commissioned employees, how tips work, and the money math for each.
· 14 min read
Fully Booked · 8 guides
A team that stays and grows.
Your stylists are the product. These guides cover commission structures stylists trust, how to hire with a proper trade test, and how to keep your best people from walking across the road with your clients — with worked numbers and policies you can adapt to your own market's employment rules.
Team & staff
How to Hire Salon Staff: Job Ads, Model Days, Interviews and Onboarding
Hire stylists, assistants and front-desk staff: a job ad to copy, where to look, a model-day trade test with a rubric, interview questions and onboarding.
· 16 min read
Team & staff
Salon Chair Rental vs Employing Stylists in the UK: Status, Pay and Risk
Renting chairs or employing stylists in the UK: how status is tested, minimum wage and holiday pay from April 2026, and what a chair-rental agreement covers.
· 13 min read
Team & staff
Salon Commission Structures: 6 Pay Models Compared, With Worked Examples
Flat, tiered, targets, base pay plus commission, retail and team pools: one stylist's month worked six ways in dollars, plus a commission policy to copy.
· 20 min read
Team & staff
Salon Front Desk Guide: Duties, Scripts, Payments and a Daily Checklist
How to run a salon front desk: the day hour by hour, call and text scripts, bookings and walk-ins, card and cash payments, rebooking, hiring and a checklist.
· 16 min read
Team & staff
Tips in a UK Salon: The Tipping Law, Tax and a Fair Tips Policy
How UK salons must handle tips since October 2024: card tips passed on in full, fair sharing, a written policy, records, tax, National Insurance and troncs.
· 14 min read
Team & staff
Salon Tips and Taxes in the US: No Tax on Tips, W-2s and the FICA Credit
What US salon owners must do about tips in 2026: the no-tax-on-tips deduction, new W-2 boxes, the FICA tip credit for salons, tip reports and tip credits.
· 14 min read
Team & staff
How to Keep Good Stylists: Pay, Career Ladders and Client Ownership
Why stylists leave, what replacing one really costs (with the maths), and the pay transparency, career ladder and client habits that keep your best people.
· 13 min read
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