Salon commission split calculator

Most salons pay commission as a percentage of what each person takes, and many use two rates: one on treatments, one on the products they sell. The two earn the business very different margins, so a single rate tends to overpay on one and underpay on the other.

Work each part out on its own takings and add them up. The calculator also shows the effective rate — the commission as a share of everything the person took — which is the number to compare when you change the rates.

Bands reward a busy day or month: the more someone takes, the higher the rate. But the same table can be paid in two ways, and a contract that doesn’t say which leaves room for an argument.

Paid on all the takings, the band someone reaches sets the rate for everything they took. Paid in slices, each part of the takings earns its own band’s rate, the way income tax works. The first is simpler to explain and jumps at each threshold; the second rises smoothly.

Commission is fairest on takings without VAT or IGI: the tax was never the shop’s money. Take refunds off too, on the day they happen, so a returned product doesn’t keep paying.

Watch gift cards. If selling a card earns commission, the treatment it later pays for shouldn’t earn it again, or the same money is paid out twice.