Barber Take-Home Hourly Rate Calculator
Your cuts, fades and beard trims turned into a real hourly wage, after chair rent, product, tax, ACC and every hour spent sweeping up or waiting on walk-ins.
- Your real hourly rate, before and after tax, across every hour you're at the shop and not only the ones with a client in the chair
- How that stacks up against an employed barber once holiday pay, sick leave and KiwiSaver are counted
- How much more to charge, or how many more cuts to book, to reach the income you're after
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Built by a working salon owner, for salon owners
| Services a client hour brings in, excl GST | $65.22 |
| Left after business costs | $48.90 |
| Spread over every hour worked | $38.03 |
| After income tax and ACC | $30.34 |
| Price lift to hit the goal | +19% |
Try it: a rough guide, the calculator does the full sums.
Showing the sample: $30.34.
Every extra $100 a week adds roughly $1.65 to your take-home hour, once costs, tax and ACC have had their share. Tax goes up in steps, so the far ends of the slider are the roughest.
Your numbers in. A decision out.
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It opens with sample numbers so you can see how it works. Type over them with yours.
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Rent goes up, minimum wage moves, you hire. Open it and re-run. It's yours.
What you'll need
- A typical week's takings, walk-ins included
- Your chair rent
- 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.
New Zealand rules, already in
- GST at 15% worked in for you, with the $60,000 registration line
- This year's minimum wage, KiwiSaver, ACC and income tax, wherever the tool needs them
- Holiday pay, public holidays and sick leave 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.
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Regular price $99 Launch price until 30 November
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