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For Australian hair and beauty

Know your numbers.
Charge what you're worth.

You learned colour theory, not cash flow. That's normal. Pop your real figures in and these calculators do the sums for you, on Australian rates, in about the time a toner takes to process.

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Solo Kit $249, Salon Kit $399Buy once, no subscriptionAustralian rates built inYour numbers stay private

Built by a working salon owner, for salon owners

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The kits

Everything you need, in one kit.

Pick the kit for the way you work. The tools that go together, for one price. Pay once, no subscription.

Solo Kit

Everything you need for your solo business.

Take-Home Hourly Rate + Menu Pricing + Price Rise + GST and Tax Set-Aside + Colour Cost

Everything a stylist working for themselves needs: your real hourly rate, a menu priced to earn it, a price rise that pays, tax sorted, and colour costed to the gram.

  • Know what you really earn an hour, then price every service to clear it
  • See what a price rise is worth before you make it, and set aside the right tax each week
  • Cost every colour to the gram, so the price covers the product as well as your time

Where to start

  1. Take-Home Hourly Rate: See what an hour of your work really pays you.
  2. Menu Pricing: Price every service so it pays that hour.
  3. Price Rise: Test the new prices before you tell a single client.
  4. GST and Tax Set-Aside: Set aside the right amount every week, so the BAS and the tax bill are boring.
$249AUD
Bought one at a time: $335.
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Salon Kit

Everything you need for your salon business.

Menu Pricing + Price Rise + Team Scorecard + Afford to Hire + Chair Rental vs Employ + GST and Tax Set-Aside + P&L Checker + Public Holiday Pay + Colour Cost

Every tool a salon owner needs to run the place on the numbers: pricing, your team, hiring, rent a chair, tax, your P&L and public holidays.

  • Price the menu, plan a price rise and cost every colour
  • Measure the team, decide on a hire and set chair rent that covers the chair
  • Tax, BAS, your P&L and public holiday penalty rates in plain English

Where to start

  1. P&L Checker: Find the lines on your P&L that are leaking money.
  2. Menu Pricing: Price every service to cover its real cost.
  3. Team Scorecard: See who is paying their way, and who needs a coaching chat.
  4. Afford to Hire: Then the big calls as they come up: hiring, chair rental, price rises, public holidays.
$399AUD
Bought one at a time: $571.
Get the kit

Secure checkout by StripeYour access link by email, usually in a minuteBuy once, no subscription

Extensions, barbering or a clinic? Extensionist Kit, Barber Kit or Clinic Kit, $99 each.

Only need one thing sorted?

Or get just the one tool, from $59
See it move

What's a small price rise worth?

Slide the two numbers and watch what a few dollars a service adds up to.

$5 more on 40 services a week:

That's about $9,200 a year

If every client stays, over 46 working weeks. Excluding GST if you're GST registered, before tax.

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What kind of business are you?

01 / SoloSole traderRent a chair, home studio or mobile. Your column's full, but you're not sure the money is.Show me →02 / With a teamSalon ownerWages are the biggest bill you pay, super and penalty rates included. See who covers their cost, and whether your menu covers yours.Show me →03 / ExtensionsExtensionistHair, hours and move-ups priced off what you actually pay, so upkeep stops being charity work.Show me →04 / BarbersBarberSolo, renting a chair or running a shop. Fades, beard trims and chair rent priced off what you really pay, so a full chair means full pay.Show me →05 / Skin and beautyClinic ownerRooms, devices, consumables and therapist time, all in the price, and courses and memberships that still pay once the discount is in.Show me →06 / EverythingShow me every toolAll 20, from $59 each. Know what you want? Start here.See them all →
Built for here

A spreadsheet from somewhere else doesn't know what a penalty rate is.

Most salon calculators are built for another country. Different tax, different leave, different super, different everything. These run on the rules you actually pay under: the award, Saturday and Sunday rates, super on top, leave loading, GST, BAS and public holidays in your state. When a rate changes on 1 July, we update it for every buyer.

10%
GST, in every price and every cost
$26.44
national minimum wage, with the award levels above it
12%
super guarantee, on top of every wage
2×
Sunday pay under the award, and 2.5× on a public holiday
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Sound familiar?

Heard yourself say one of these?

Tap it. There's a calculator for that.

My book's full every week and I still couldn't tell you my hourly rate.Take-Home Hourly Rate →Honestly, I copied my prices off the salon across the road years ago.Menu Pricing →I know I need to put my prices up. I'm just scared half my book will walk.Price Rise →The team's busy every day and I still couldn't tell you who's carrying the salon.Team Scorecard →We're flat out, but I've no idea if another stylist would actually make me money.Afford to Hire →I charge $500 for the chair and I'm not sure it even covers the power.Chair Rental vs Employ →Every time the BAS comes round I'm scraping it together from the next week's takings.GST and Tax Set-Aside →The accountant sends the P&L, I look at the bottom line, and I file it.P&L Checker →None of these, but something still doesn't add up.Ask me →

How this is different

An answer, not homework.

Courses give you a framework and wish you luck. A calculator gives you a number. These go one step further and tell you what the number means and what to do on Monday.

  1. Your numbers go in

    Takings, wages, rent, hours. Ten to thirty minutes with your reports open.

  2. The maths gets done properly

    GST out, super and leave loading in, penalty rates on the weekend shifts, the unpaid hours counted. The stuff a quick guess always misses.

  3. You get a list, in order

    Green, amber or red, then what to change and what it's worth in dollars.

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Free, just your email

Try a one-minute check first.

Three free checks on Australian rates. Each gives you one honest number, so you know where to start.

Quick hourly rate check

What an hour of your work pays after costs, income tax and the Medicare levy.

Can I afford another stylist?

What a new stylist needs to bring in each week to be worth it.

Wage cost check

Your wage bill as a share of takings, with super and workers comp added.

Pick one number. Sort it this week.

Knowing is nearly always cheaper than guessing.

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