The £96 colour earns £13.87 an hour. The £52 cut earns £30.08. The premium treatment is the worse use of the chair
Treatment Price and Margin Calculator
A price is not a margin until the minutes, the product and the loaded stylist hour come out of it. Put a treatment in and see the ex VAT take, what the time really costs and what the chair earns an hour, so you can rank your list by the number that pays the rent.
Treatment Price and Margin Calculator
Product, minutes and the chair itself, priced into one treatment: margin in pounds, in per cent, and per hour, which is the one that decides.
Why per hour is the only honest ranking
The demo answer the whole hub hangs on: the £96 colour earns £13.87 an hour once its 105 minutes, £14.50 of product and the loaded stylist time are priced, while the £52 cut earns £30.08. The premium treatment is the worse use of the chair.
The stylist hour costs £18.06, not £14: holiday, employer NIC and pension load every wage by roughly 29 per cent, and pricing from the headline rate is how busy columns lose money.
Price from the chair backwards: minutes times the loaded hour plus product plus the chair share, then the margin you intend, then VAT back on top. The Pricing Treatments for Profit guide walks the whole list.
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