What do you pay for a haircut?

I buy a ~$35 clipper every 20 years or so. 

californiamilleghia said:

Supercuts type place is about $24  here , I usually leave $30

But I have not found a good place to trim my beard , so do it myself  when it gets too long.....

As far as $30 for 20 minutes being too much , well yeah 3x$30 every hour is great money , but what barber has  3 customers an hour all day , everyday ?

a guy called Chuck in my hometown had a one chair shop next to a drive- in movie theater and some car dealerships. In the front window he had a homemade sign with about eight trailer tail lights. The lights indicated the number of customers waiting inside. So you could decide to stop in now or come back later.
I don't think I ever saw Chuck spend more than ten minutes on a haircut and the shop was often full. I last visited the shop three decades ago and I am pretty certain he is retired now. But three haircuts per hour is very possible. 

Thread Bump.  My normal place was booked through the holidays and I looked like Marv from Home Alone, so I decided to try the new 'hipster barber starter pack' shop about a mile from work.  I think I'm now a loyal  customer now...

FWIW- Cut was excellent, and the haircut, beard trim, and striaght blade cleanup was $34 +tip.  IMHO, totally reasonable pricing.

In reply to golfduke :

The straight blade cleanup and hot towel are the best part of getting my haircut, and  things my current barber shop does that sets it apart. 

No Time said:

In reply to dean1484 :

I'm not sure I follow your math...

Even if we assume 2 cuts per hour at $30/ea, that $60 per hour. 

$60/hour x 2000 hours = $120,000

Of course that is before taxes, insurance, rent, etc. 

Still not big money, but starting to get more sustainable, especially if you rent out a chair or two. 

You are correct I was using the $30 amount which is 60-70K a year.  My bad. .. . A quick way to figuar out a salery is to take the hourly rate double it and then make it thousands.  I forgot about the X2 as in 2/hour. Me typing before my brain finished calculating.  LOL

Datsun240ZGuy said:

mtn said:

Going to a real barber, meaning not a chain, within 30 minutes of my house I'm looking at $30+ $5 tip.

My guy is $31 plus a tip - usually he does the cut in 20-25 minutes.  Shaving cream razor cut on neck, burns and around ears.  Trims eyebrows - cuts most hair with scissors.  One of the few services I gladly pay for in life.

Every 5-6 weeks or so?  My guy is a car guy and I need to help fund that F/Type Jaguar he drives. 

This. Although when I still went to a salon in Tulsa vs a barber in OKC. It also meant getting hair wash, essentially a nice 5 minute head massage with warm water......excellent after a long day or week.

Right after COVID started, I just started buzzing it. It's getting thin enough up top, no point in trying to deny anymore. I end up looking almost like Renfroe from the movie HEAT. 

I don't. 

I've had long hair since I was 16.

Some of you savages need a shave though. 

I'm reading all these prices and as a woman I am so jealous. A base haircut for most women is around 50 bucks. But, I have long hair on top of it being extremely thick, so I normally get charged an excess maintenance or long hair fee which can range from 10 to 15 bucks depending on where I go.

On top of that, they charge extra for shampoo and a blow dry–once again, with my hair being long, walking out with wet hair isn't the best option for me. So my haircuts are around 75 bucks sometimes. 

In reply to Paris Van Gorder :

I pay about $12 at Great Clips with a coupon and a senior discount. Mrs. Snowdoggie pays about $200 at the snooty beauty salon place. I don't know why. 

In reply to Paris Van Gorder :

Sounds reasonable.  My wife is fighting the gray and gets color too.  Pays an even hundred.

Me?  Little neighborhood shop up the road.  Twenty bucks includes a tip.

$0 I bought a pair of clippers about 15 years ago and just cut my hair short every month or so. Plus I wear a hat 95% of the time so it doesn't matter much to me. 

In reply to golfduke :

Hey, check it out. 

And I got a haircut yesterday. (Actually, I got all of them cut.)

$30 for a scissor cut, and he didn’t charge me for cleaning up the sideburns. Total with tip was like $40.

In reply to 1988RedT2 :

My wife has been coloring her hair for 20 years. I finally talked her into letting it go gray. I just want to say au naturale is a big improvement IMHO. 

Snowdoggie (Forum Supporter) said:

In reply to Paris Van Gorder :

I pay about $12 at Great Clips with a coupon and a senior discount. Mrs. Snowdoggie pays about $200 at the snooty beauty salon place. I don't know why. 

Color and the products at a good salon are expensive. So are shears, a good pair is $350+, sharpening every 6-7 months is $40 pair, booth rent where you pay a weekly amount for your space, or commission in some salons/new stylists that haven't built a clientele yet (40-60% of the bill but then you don't pay booth rent, or for products). My ex-wife was stylist for years until she went to work for a large product company as an educator. Her booth rent was $130/week. That and the other prices I mentioned are 2013 prices. I can only imagine it's much more now. 

And here is the other thing for you, if your wife has a trusted stylist, that stylist is also a therapist. 

Toyman! said:

In reply to 1988RedT2 :

My wife has been coloring her hair for 20 years. I finally talked her into letting it go gray. I just want to say au naturale is a big improvement IMHO. 

 

I'm totally with you.  But she is pretty set in her ways.    She'll let it go gray when she's dang good and ready.  I know where not to tread. 

z31maniac said:

Snowdoggie (Forum Supporter) said:

In reply to Paris Van Gorder :

I pay about $12 at Great Clips with a coupon and a senior discount. Mrs. Snowdoggie pays about $200 at the snooty beauty salon place. I don't know why. 

Color and the products at a good salon are expensive. So are shears, a good pair is $350+, sharpening every 6-7 months is $40 pair, booth rent where you pay a weekly amount for your space, or commission in some salons/new stylists that haven't built a clientele yet (40-60% of the bill but then you don't pay booth rent, or for products). My ex-wife was stylist for years until she went to work for a large product company as an educator. Her booth rent was $130/week. That and the other prices I mentioned are 2013 prices. I can only imagine it's much more now. 

And here is the other thing for you, if your wife has a trusted stylist, that stylist is also a therapist. 

She goes to a place out in Plano. I think they call it Jose the Bear. 

A French guy owns it. 

In reply to Snowdoggie (Forum Supporter) :

Oh yeah, when I used to get my hair dyed at the salon? 250 easy. Now I dye my hair at home, 15 bucks. 

$25 - $50 depending if I get my head washed (which is a very relaxing experience) and if I have them trim and shape my beard.  

As for me, the last few clippers I've bought were terrible. I recently started going to Supercuts to just have them buzz my head and beard with #2 guard, they clean up my mustanche and beard nicely. Then I go back when my beard starts to look like I forgot how to use clippers. Rinse and repeat. $40 a pop because I leave them a $10/tip.

CAinCA said:

I buy a ~$35 clipper every 20 years or so. 

This.