To not tip the hairdresser?

[sunnygemini]

I had a good wash, cut and blow dry today, a lot of length off so almost a restyle. The hairdresser got it just right and took almost double the amount of time for the appointment (time not an issue for me).
It cost £55 which is more than I usually pay but I needed to get it booked in so was ok with this.
I've come away wondering if I should have tipped as it took the extra time and the hairdresser seemed to put in the effort to get it just right but I felt a bit awkward, how much do people tip? Do you tip cash separately if you pay by card? Is it expected not to tip when its that price?

I know there are much better things to worry over but I want to go back to the same place and don't want to feel awkward next time!

[quote Wantingtogetitright]@carrieeee do hairdressers etc pay tax on their tips? Whether employed or self employed?[/quote]
No, cash tips are not taxed. If it went through the card machine then yes, it would be taxed as accounts for your earnings.

I always tipped pre-Covid but started paying by card since and never think to ask to have the amount rounded up, but even so I pay a hell of a lot more now than I did then. I always used to get a dry cut but now they insist on washing everyone’s hair so I’m now paying for a wash, cut and style.

I used to be a hairdresser and tips weren’t expected but it was lovely to think that someone appreciated your work. It’s not an easy job, frequently all you have to work with is a client’s vague description of what they want or you have to tactfully try to suggest a change to a style they’ve asked for which you know won’t suit them but you know that if you follow their instructions to the letter they’d call it a bad cut and see it as being your fault.

The owner of the business cuts mine so I don't tip. Sometimes tip the person who has washed it for me.

Lots of tips, in fact most now go through the card machine.

I would only tip under 10% if O was seriously pissed off and my hair had ended up purple or something. On a £130 cut I would tip £15-20. I find this so weird that people don't do this. Just like walking out of a restaurant or taxi with no tip, or to hotel staff. So rude. You factor it into the price when you book it, surely?

I thought everyone tipped hairdressers or beauticians?I wouldn't go if I didn't have the money to tip, I'd be mortified! Same as tipping at a restaurant, I always tip 10%, even if I haven't been thrilled with the do. My parents always did and even as a child in the 80s my mum would have tipped the hairdresser doing my hair so its something ingrained in me.

I'm another one who doesn't tip hairdressers either, and I rarely tip for other services. I don't earn a lot of money myself and I don't get tipped in my job even though it's a service role. I can guarantee that the hairdresser earns a lot more than me and as far as I'm concerned the price is the price.

@BadLad 🤣

@noblegreenk

I'm another one who doesn't tip hairdressers either, and I rarely tip for other services. I don't earn a lot of money myself and I don't get tipped in my job even though it's a service role. I can guarantee that the hairdresser earns a lot more than me and as far as I'm concerned the price is the price.

That's irrelevant though. You factor it into the cost of booking and don't go if you can't afford to tip appropriately!

I don't tip.

I pay what is asked and that is plenty.

So shocked at the shameless lack of manners on the thread. Wow.

@Giotto479

I never do. I pay 150 for a cut and colour, that’s enough.

Same. It's like bloody London prices here.

I suppose everyone who doesn’t tip their hairdresser also crosses off the 12.5% service charges on their restaurant bills every time

I cross the service charge off every single time, but I give the equivalent in cash to
my server (as long as the service wasn’t bad). You have absolutely no guarantee that the “service” charge goes to the staff.

So shocked at the shameless lack of
manners on the thread. Wow.

I’m shocked that you think it’s bad manners not to tip someone who does very well for themselves, when you’re already paying them a small fortune 😂

I will always tip those who go out of their way to do a good job and are on a low wage. I worked in bars for years and my tips really made a difference, but will I give my hairdresser (who owns the salon, goes on exotic holidays and drives a Porsche) an extra 10% on top of the £120 they charge? No, sorry!

Hotel staff?! Since when do we have to tip them?!

I never tip my hairdresser, and she's amazing, she always fits me in when I need it and she's like an actual therapist. I do always take chocolates or something for the team and her as they're all so lovely, and a bottle of prosecco for my Christmas Cut

@19lottie82

So shocked at the shameless lack of manners on the thread. Wow.

I’m shocked that you think it’s bad manners not to tip someone who does very well for themselves, when you’re already paying them a small fortune 😂

I will always tip those who go out of their way to do a good job and are on a low wage. I worked in bars for years and my tips really made a difference, but will I give my hairdresser (who owns the salon, goes on exotic holidays and drives a Porsche) an extra 10% on top of the £120 they charge? No, sorry!

That's not the reason for tipping though! Do you not feel rude behaving like that? I'm sure they would never say so, of course, but it is terrible manners.

@FrangipaniDeLaSqueegeeMop

Hotel staff?! Since when do we have to tip them?!

What?!? They are kind of top of the list for tipping abov anybody else! Bloody hell. You don't tip the concierges or bar staff or waiters in a hotel???

Or leave money for housekeeping in your room when check out (if you've szayed more than a night or two)?!

This thread has really surprised me. I can't believe people don't tip these people in professions where it's factored into their salaries. How unkind.

I'd have tipped a £5, but think it's personal choice whether to tip or not.

@PolkadotSkies

This thread has really surprised me. I can't believe people don't tip these people in professions where it's factored into their salaries. How unkind.

It's not factored into any salaries in the UK. We have a legally mandated minimum wage. The US does not.

Yeah we do. And that minimum is pathetic and not enough. People who work in lublic serving professions rely on tips to make their salaries up to an appropriate level in certain industries and I am shocked that anybody who can afford £50-200 on their hair regularly believes it would break the bank to factor a 10-15% tip into this. I'd be sp ashamed leaving a salon and not tipping properly, I would never even do that for kids' haircuts.

@Labracadabradoodle

Speaking as a minimum wage employee, I hate the whole notion of tipping. There are many low paid services where we don't feel obliged to do it. We don't tip the supermarket checkout person, the street sweepers, cleaners at the local gym etc etc. Where does the line get drawn? Glad you love your hair.

I live in the US where we tip more people and more generously than the UK does. I don’t know how it is there but here hairdressers aren’t aren’t usually employed by the salon. Instead they “rent” a chair in a salon and good they make enough in payments and tips to cover the cost of the seat and make a living. They also often have to buy their own scissors, combs, brushes, etc. Cashiers in a supermarket are on a guaranteed salary and get paid whether they serve 100 customers in a day or 2 customers. They don’t have to buy their own tills or rent the lane that they work in.

So that’s where I draw the line - job security.

@Lockheart not strictly true. There is a federal minimum wage and each state can set their own state minimum wage (which cannot be lower than federal minimum wage). Some states have a “tipped wage” as well as an “untipped wage”. If someone works on a tipped wage the employer is required to top it up the minimum wage if insufficient tips are earned. My state doesn’t have a tipped wage and our state minimum wage is over $13 an hour. So even waiters and bar staff get at least that. I do believe that’s higher than the UK minimum wage. Oh, and we don’t pay income tax in this state either.

I never tip the hairdresser.
Really not a thing around here.
If it is, it passed me by as still on first name terms and get a great cut and been going years.