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Stations, services per day and ticket, with technician pay on base plus commission as the main fixed cost.
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A nail salon is a capacity business on the employee model: technicians are paid a base plus commission, so their pay sits in fixed costs and cost of goods is product only, polish, gel, acrylic and sanitation supplies at 8 to 12 percent, which puts gross margin near 90 percent. Capacity is stations times services per day times open days, utilization is the share of bookable station-hours sold, and the ticket of $40 to $55 is a blend of a $30 manicure, a $50 pedicure and the gel and acrylic sets that run higher. If technicians rent their stations instead, the shape inverts and this template overstates your fixed costs.
Manicure tables, pedicure chairs with plumbing, ventilation and signage commonly total $60,000 to $150,000, financed over seven years, with the pedicure plumbing the dear part. Eight stations at five services a day over twenty six open days is a ceiling of 1,040 services a month, and a settled salon runs 60 to 70 percent of that. One salon does roughly $250,000 to $500,000 a year. The model holds debt service coverage at 1.25 or better and sizes the roster to the bookings, not to the station count.
Commission pay makes the labour line partly variable, which is what keeps a nail salon solvent through a slow month, but the base wages and the receptionist are fixed and arrive before the bookings do. After staffing, the result turns on rebooking and on add-ons: gel over regular polish, nail art, and the retail wall move the ticket more than a price rise does, and a client booked for her next visit before she leaves costs nothing to acquire. New-client offers and loyalty cards sit in the discount line here, so the model shows what they cost as well as what they bring.
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