Salon & Spa Business Economics: Chair Utilisation, Commissions & Retail Attach
Run the numbers of a salon and day spa in a live grid: revenue per chair hour, utilisation, commission vs booth rental vs salary, product cost per service, retail attach, rebooking, no-show fees and break-even visits, every cell checked as you go.
The first lesson is free — no account needed.
About this course
A salon and spa business economics course that runs one fictional salon and day spa by the numbers in a spreadsheet, for salon and spa owners and managers, stylists thinking about renting a booth and beauty business students. You turn the service menu into revenue per chair hour and flag the services below target, measure chair utilisation and the revenue sitting in empty hours, compare what the salon keeps under commission, booth rental and salary and find the break-even revenue between them, cost a colour service from pack prices with a waste allowance, measure the retail attach rate and retail revenue per client by stylist, calculate the rebooking rate and the 90-day retention of new clients, size the revenue lost to no-shows and what a cancellation fee recovers, and build a monthly P&L with the break-even number of client visits. Illustrative numbers. The first lab is free.
Lessons
- Service Menu Pricing: Revenue per Chair HourFree
- Chair Utilisation: Booked Hours ÷ Available Hours Pro
- Commission vs Booth Rental vs Salary: Which Model Pays the Salon? Pro
- Product Cost per Service: Colour, Backbar and Consumables Pro
- Retail Attach Rate and Retail Revenue per Client Pro
- Client Retention and Rebooking Rate Pro
- No-Shows, Late Cancellations and Cancellation Fees Pro
- Monthly P&L and Break-even Client Visits (with a Chart) Pro