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Self-employed barbers

Barber Take-Home Hourly Rate Calculator

For barbers who work for themselves: your cuts, fades and beard trims turned into a real hourly wage, after rent or travel, product, tax, the Medicare levy and every hour spent sweeping up or waiting on walk-ins.

This is for you if you work for yourself: renting a chair in someone else's shop, running your own one-chair shop, or mobile. Employed on wages or commission? Your payslip already has this number. Own a shop with a team? Start with Barber Menu Pricing. Know the pay you want and need to know what it takes? That's How Many Cuts a Day?

  • Your real hourly rate, before and after tax, across every hour you work and not only the ones with a client in the chair
  • How that stacks up against an employed barber once annual leave, leave loading, personal leave, super and workers comp are counted
  • How much more to charge, or how many more cuts to book, to reach the income you're after
Get it for $59All tools

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Built by a working salon owner, for salon owners

Buy onceNo subscriptionAustralian rates built inAbout 15 minutes

A made-up exampleTake-home hourly rate$38.17

See how it gets there

Pop your email in and the full sample opens: the real tool on the same made-up numbers, plus a rough Try it you can play with.

Your email opens the sample. I never sell your address or give it to anyone for their own marketing.

How it works

Your numbers in. A decision out.

  1. Buy it

    Pay once by card. The tool opens straight away on the device you paid on, and a link for your other devices lands in your inbox.

  2. Type in your numbers

    It opens with sample numbers so you can see how it works. Type over them with yours.

  3. Read the answer

    Green, amber or red against targets you can change, with what to do about it in plain English.

  4. Run it again

    Rent goes up, the award rates move on 1 July, you hire. Open it and re-run, as often as you like.

Have these handy

What you'll need

  • A typical week's takings, walk-ins included
  • Your chair or shop rent, or your vehicle costs if you're mobile
  • Rough monthly costs: blades and product, phone, insurance, booking app
  • Roughly what you spend on retail stock each week, if you sell any
  • Hours you work, including cleaning, admin and quiet gaps

Good guesses are fine for a first run. You can tighten them later and the answer updates as you type.

Built for here

Australian rules, already in

  • GST at 10% worked in for you, with the $75,000 registration line
  • This year's award rates, super, income tax and the Medicare levy, wherever the tool needs them
  • Annual leave and leave loading, personal leave, public holidays by state and weekend penalty rates counted in any wage it works out
  • Card fees counted on what clients pay

When a rate changes, we update it once and every buyer gets it. See the rates we use.

Pay once, no subscription

$59, once.

No subscription. No course to sit through. Your numbers stay in your own browser and are never sent to us.

Get it for $59Questions first

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

Does it work on my phone?
Yes. It runs in your browser on a phone, tablet or laptop, with nothing to install. Your numbers are saved on that device, so they're there next time you open it.
Do I have to keep paying?
No. You pay once. No subscription, no renewal, and when Australian rates change we update the tool for you. Your tools keep working for as long as we run them online. If we ever close the site or retire a tool, we'll email you at least 60 days first, and within 24 months of your purchase you get a refund for the unused months (or, if we retire just that tool, another of the same price or more if you'd rather). See the terms. The device you buy on stays signed in for six months; after that, enter your email on My tools and a fresh link arrives in seconds. You never buy a tool twice.
What if I don't know a figure?
It opens with sample numbers, so type over the ones you know and leave the rest for now. A good guess is fine for a first run. The answer updates as you type, so tighten the guesses whenever you find the real figures.
Better together

Barber Kit

The four numbers a barber needs: what an hour really pays you now, how many cuts a day it takes to earn what you want, what every cut, fade and beard trim should cost, and what to put aside for your BAS and tax each week.

Barber Hourly Rate + Cuts a Day + Barber Menu Pricing + GST and Tax Set-Aside.

$99AUD
Bought one at a time: $236.
Get the kit for $99