how much do you tip for haircuts?

edscdk · 18 Sep 2012 at 08:34

[TW]Fox;22789191 said:
Do you also give the tyre fitter £100 for two £40 tyres?

I would if the tyre fitter was female aged 18 - 25 had large boobs and brushed them against me a few times...

Reeve · 18 Sep 2012 at 10:31

Basher said:
I don't. The fact I'm there means they do a consistently good job, my repeat custom is their reward for a good job. I don't see any value for me in tipping.

This, my hair cut only costs £6.50 or so, why is everyone elses so expensive? :eek:

I can understand ~£10 depending on where you live but anything more than that puzzles me unless you're a woman.

MooMoo444 · 18 Sep 2012 at 10:57

Surely if you are recieving a large number of tips, you would have to declare this as additional income

How many actually do that I wonder?

XeNoN89 · 18 Sep 2012 at 10:59

£1 usually

edscdk · 18 Sep 2012 at 11:00

MooMoo444 said:
Surely if you are recieving a large number of tips, you would have to declare this as additional income

How many actually do that I wonder?

none i hope, I'm tipping the girl not he tax man... I already paid 30% tax on the £20 (ok i know it does not really work like that)

LiE · 18 Sep 2012 at 11:05

MooMoo444 said:
Surely if you are recieving a large number of tips, you would have to declare this as additional income

How many actually do that I wonder?

My wife declares her tips. As far as I know, she only gets tips from her female clients.

I think the main reason that she gets a tip is because of the great service, advice and going above what is expected. For example, one her clients is an elderly lady who has her daughter travel 30 miles every 6 weeks to help with washing her hair, cleaning etc (she's pretty old). This week her daughter couldn't come so asked if my wife could do what she would normally do. For her efforts, she was tipped £20.

edscdk · 18 Sep 2012 at 11:11

LiE said:
My wife declares her tips. As far as I know, she only gets tips from her female clients.

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tell her to wear less and jiggle more, she will get more tips from male clients then..

CrispyOtter · 18 Sep 2012 at 11:14

Barber round the corner costs £8.50... I usually give them a tenner and tell them to keep the change.

kinobestew123 · 18 Sep 2012 at 11:28

Until I recently moved house, the barbers charged me the childs rate (£5) despite me being 23. I'd been a customer for many many years.

I always just assumed this was my tip for being such a good customer.

yhack · 18 Sep 2012 at 11:29

norm said:
(a percentage of their earnings for the day kicked back to the owner).

This true for every job. This is how jobs work.

starfighter · 18 Sep 2012 at 11:39

I already pay £16, not tipping owt.

Martini1991 · 18 Sep 2012 at 11:41

My haircut's a straight ten pound, for about a 15 minute job.
Makes it a bit awkward to tip imo unless I was to hand them 20 quid.

Tipping taxi's I'll do as I can't be fussed with change at times and I would rather get out as soon as I can.

Same with delivery, can't be fussed with change, will hand him a note and be done with it.

Basher · 18 Sep 2012 at 11:46

yhack said:
This true for every job. This is how jobs work.

Is it? That's not how my job works.

yhack · 18 Sep 2012 at 11:56

Basher said:
Is it? That's not how my job works.

So when you work, you make a certain amount of profit for the company, the company pays you a certain amount of that and takes the rest. This is how a business runs. With hairdressers, with the way he explained, this is basically the same. Maybe I'm wrong.

ubersonic · 18 Sep 2012 at 12:01

I don't, I pay for the haircut, I don't tip the window cleaner either, am I going to hell?

Basher · 18 Sep 2012 at 12:01

yhack said:
So when you work, you make a certain amount of profit for the company, the company pays you a certain amount of that and takes the rest. This is how a business runs. With hairdressers, with the way he explained, this is basically the same. Maybe I'm wrong.

The hairdressers pay for their space either as a fixed fee, or a percentage of the money they take from their customers.

I'm in a cost centre not a profit centre currently.