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Salon Pricing & Profit

Build every price from what the hour actually costs you — then raise them without losing the room.

  • 6 CPD hours
  • 10 lessons
  • Intermediate
  • Online, self-paced
  • Certificate included

What you will be able to do

  • Work out what one hour in your salon genuinely costs to deliver
  • Build a price from cost, time and stock rather than from the competition
  • Cost colour and product properly per service
  • Tier prices by stylist level without confusing clients
  • Plan and communicate a price rise that clients accept
  • Judge whether a discount, offer or loyalty scheme is worth running
  • Set a retail margin and a realistic retail target
  • Run a one-hour monthly numbers routine that tells you what to change

About this course

Almost every price list in the trade was built the same way: someone looked at what the salon down the road charges, took a bit off, and has been adjusting that number by small amounts ever since. Which means the price of your work is being set by a stranger's guess about their own costs.

This course builds prices the other way round — from what an hour of your time actually costs to deliver once you have counted rent, wages, stock, card fees and the hours you are not on a client. It then deals with the harder half: putting prices up, which most owners delay for years because they are afraid of the conversation.

Six focused hours. There is no filler, and it comes with the spreadsheets, because pricing is arithmetic and arithmetic should not be done from memory.

Curriculum

3 sections · 10 lessons

Start here1 lesson
  • How this course worksFree to read
The modules8 lessons
  • What an hour actually costsFree to read
  • Costing a service properly
  • Building the price list
  • Tiering by stylist
  • The price rise
  • Discounts, offers and loyalty
  • Retail as a profit line
  • The monthly hour
Assessment and certificate1 lesson
  • End-of-course assessment

What you need

  • A cost-per-hour calculator (spreadsheet)
  • A service costing model including colour usage (spreadsheet)
  • A price-rise planner with the client wording
  • A one-page monthly numbers tracker

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Questions

Will this tell me what to charge for a cut?
No — and any course that gives you a number without knowing your rent, your wage bill and your utilisation is guessing. It gives you the calculation, and your own number falls out of it in about twenty minutes.
I am in a low-price area. Does this still work?
Yes, and it matters more. Costing tells you which services are genuinely unprofitable at local rates, which is information you need in order to change the menu rather than quietly subsidise them.
Is it just spreadsheets?
The spreadsheets are included, but half the course is the conversation with the client — how to raise a price, how to explain a tier, how to hold a quote. That is the part people find hardest.
How does it overlap with the salon business course?
Pricing is one module of that course and eight here. If you only want the pricing problem solved, take this. If you want the whole business, take that one — and this is included in the business bundle either way.

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