The salon keeps £484 a week from an employed stylist and £150 from a rented chair. The £150 is often the better deal
Chair Rental vs Employment Calculator
Employment brings the takings and the wage bill, the product, the holiday and the quiet weeks. Rent brings a smaller number that carries none of it. Put your own takings, hourly rate and rent in and see both sides of the same chair.
Chair Rental vs Employment Calculator
The defining salon question, worked from both sides of the chair: what the salon keeps and what the stylist keeps under rent and under employment.
The part that is not arithmetic
The demo week: the salon keeps £484 from an employed stylist and £150 from a rented chair, but the £150 carries no wage bill, no product bill, no holiday, no cover and no quiet-week risk. The rent is smaller and safer; the employment is bigger and yours to manage.
The stylist sees the mirror image: £560 employed with holiday, sick pay and none of the risk, or £1,057 renting before their own tax, product going forward, insurance and empty-column weeks.
The trap is renting in name only. Set their prices, their hours and their clients and HMRC can call it employment whatever the agreement says; the Taking On a Self-Employed Stylist Checklist walks what the salon must not control.
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