Hairdresser Finance Tracker: What You Keep After the Chair
Whether you rent a booth, run a chair in someone else's salon, or work mobile, hairdressing has its own money quirks: booth rent going out whether you're busy or not, colour and product costs, tips, and a diary that swings with the season. A tracker built for it tells you what you actually take home once the chair is paid for.
The costs that are easy to miss
- Booth / chair rent — a fixed cost that eats quiet weeks
- Product & colour — your COGS; varies with the services you do
- Tips — income that's easy to lose track of
- Tools & training — occasional but real
What to track
Log each day's takings by service (cut, colour, treatment), your product costs, and your rent. Then you want: income by service, profit after rent and product, and a tax set-aside. The number that matters is profit after booth rent — that's your real hourly worth, and it's often a surprise.
The ready-made option
A booth-renting stylist is a small business, so the Sheetsmith Freelancer Finance Tracker handles it — rename the categories to your services and costs, add booth rent as a fixed expense, and you've got income, profit-after-rent and a tax pot in one dashboard. (A salon-specific version is in the shop if you'd prefer it pre-labelled.) Excel and Google Sheets, one-off download, no subscription.
General information and a spreadsheet how-to — not financial or tax advice.