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How Many Cuts a Day? Calculator

The pay you want, turned into how many cuts a day it takes, after the chair, your costs, GST, tax and ACC.

  • How many cuts a day it takes to put the pay you want in your hand, after the chair, costs, GST, tax, ACC and KiwiSaver
  • Whether those cuts actually fit in the hours you're there, and the price that makes them fit when they don't
  • What every extra cut a day adds to your take-home each week

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Regular price $99 Launch price until 30 November

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Built by a working salon owner, for salon owners

Buy onceNo subscriptionNZ rates built inAbout 10 minutes
Cuts a day you need
11.2
Cuts a week, over 5 days56
Takings a week, as clients pay it$2,794
Hours those cuts fill a day7.5 of 8
How it fits your dayFits, but only just
Each extra cut a day adds to your take-home$120 a week
 Sample: barber renting a chair, $50 and 40 minutes a client. Made-up numbers to show what you get. Yours will differ.

Try it: a rough guide, the calculator does the full sums.

Showing the sample: 11.2.

Every extra dollar on your average price takes about a quarter of a cut a day off what you need. It's a curve, not a straight line, so near $40 the calculator says closer to 14 a day than 13.5.

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, minimum wage moves, you hire. Open it and re-run. It's yours.

Have these handy

What you'll need

  • The take-home pay you're after each week
  • Your average price per client (a normal week's takings divided by clients works)
  • Roughly how long a client takes in your chair
  • Your chair rent
  • Rough monthly costs: product, software, insurance, phone

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

Built for here

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.

Yours to keep

$59, once.

Regular price $99 Launch price until 30 November

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

Tell me when it's readyQuestions first

First to hear when it opensYour address is never sharedBuy 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.
Is it mine for good?
Yes. You pay once and never pay again, and when NZ rates change we update the tool for you. 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.
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Barber Kit

Every tool a barber needs, solo or running a shop: a menu priced to pay you, the cuts a day it takes, chair rent that covers the chair, and a team measured fairly.

Barber Menu Pricing (coming soon, included) + Cuts a Day (coming soon, included) + Barber Hourly Rate (coming soon, included) + Barber Chair Rental (coming soon, included) + Barber Scorecard (coming soon, included) + Price Rise + GST and Tax Set-Aside + Public Holiday Pay. $399 instead of $472.

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