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Working At Great Clips

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Great Clips Overview

Industry

Consumer Discretionary

Organization Type

Private

Employees

40,000

Headquarters

Minneapolis, MN

Website

jobs.greatclips.com

Website

jobs.greatclips.com

Founded in

1982

Revenue

$1.0B

Key People

Michelle Sack (Vice President Of Franchise Services And Human Resources),
Lisa Hake (Vice President Of Marketing And Communications),
David Rubenzer (founders),
Steve Lemmon (founders),
Marie Bates (Owner),
Rob Goggins (president),
Heather Leiferman (Director Of Communications),
Steve Hockett (ceo)

About Great Clips

Great Clips is a 100% franchised company with more than 4,200 salons across North America. Established in Minneapolis in 1982, this company has grown to be the world's largest and fastest growing salon brand. Great Clips' franchisees employ nearly 40,000 stylists who receive ongoing training to learn the Great Clips customer care system and advanced technical skills.

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2.0

Never See My Year Old Son Because I'm Always Working

October 11, 2019 on Zippia

What Do You Like About Working There?

Not much, decent money I guess. My clients are about the only thing... Show More

What DON'T You Like About Working There?

Extremely unrealistic expectation of production and no realistic goals to make commission resulting in no where near enough income for how hard they work you. Franchised so a lot of them have ZERO room for promotion or upward mobility of ANY kind. Never see my 2 year old son because I'm always working. Don't waste your time or your health. Not worth it... Show More

4.0

Career Very Much People And Products Such

July 17, 2019 on Zippia

What Do You Like About Working There?

I enjoy my career very much
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What DON'T You Like About Working There?

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What Are Your Favorite Benefits/Perks?

Free training.. Show More

do you find this funny?

February 15, 2016 on Reddit

back in the day the slogan used to be "relax, you're at great clips!" my wife and I would always joke that it should be "uh oh, you're at great clips!" Question: do you find this funny? would this go over well with the senior management?

No one at the salon cares lol. They would use it as a conversation starter to talk about product somehow if they were good and they would laugh it off if they were casuals :P. EDIT: Fun fact someone getting their haircut by our manager said "I would rather guzzle gasoline than be here." Man left buying a gift set of Tea Tree. You never know where it can go.

Does it cause problems when clients don't register their name/info?

February 15, 2016 on Reddit

Does it cause problems when clients don't register their name/info? How can the chain afford to give coupons for $5.99 haircuts?

At all the branches I worked at, the phone number was just to look up your account without using your name, and it was preferable because there are never duplicate numbers, however there can be 20 John Brown's. So the worst that could happen is some checkout problems or slowness if you only provide your name. Around 40-60% of stylist's money is from tips. We still make a profit when doing our 7.99 haircut sales, and any coupons or free cuts people have are so rare that they hardly make a difference. Remember, prices are meant to be set so that we can have cheap sales, not to already be cheap.

I know there's some quality stylists, but how many bad terrible stylists were there?

February 14, 2016 on Reddit

I know there's some quality stylists, but how many bad terrible stylists were there? What was the ratio? Worst haircut you saw? What are you doing for a living now? What is your morning routine? What time do you normally go to bed? I wake up and scramble to brush my teeth and put clothes on. I am a night shower taker, so no shower in the morning. I then grab my iced coffee, that I made the night before and let chill in the fridge over night, and I'm out the door! On weekdays when I work, I sleep at 1am, and wake at 8:30am. Weekends it's usually around 2-3am to bed and wake at 10am What time do you sleep on a work night? Off days? What time do you consider as sleeping in? Got any cool, funny, sad, weird, or crazy stories? If so, please tell. Don't overthink it man, just something off the top of your head anything will do its just a casual question. What's your purpose in life? What keeps you going every day?

1. In our record breaking salon I can honestly say if you were bad you were moved, replaced or fired. They were all capable people who did old people, first haircuts on babies and inverted bobs. In our other salons usually it was about 1-2 mediocre stylists that would mess up 1-2 haircuts a day. So it is not insanely unlikely you would just get a bad haircut on a random day. 2. Worst haircut was this, our older lady was a little sick but still came in, accidentally cut herself (happens often no big deal) and went back to fix it. Then when she came back just did a haircut that was completely different, like 3 inches shorter, used clippers on a scissor only cut, and the dude with luscious locks now had a buzz. Was too absorbed in his phone to notice. He was next level pissed and she got a write-up. 3. Wake, eat, brush, contacts, warm up motorcycle, gear up, head to work around 8 or 9 depending on the day. 4. Sleep at midnight wake around 7:30 on workdays, sleep in on non-workdays. 5. Someone in like Texas at a Great Clips threw away 4 out of about 50 donations to wigs for kids in sealed box. Some customer took a picture of the donations that they accidentally threw away. Long story short it was a social massacre online and now you have to donate your own hair after it getting cut off making the whole process much worse and now we get less donations. Some people need to let mistakes lie. 5. I am a NetTech now, Just got the new job, really helps me a lot. Also a supportive woman.

Great Clips Employees

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Gender

Female

76.9%

Male

12.9%

Unknown

10.3%

Ethnicity


White 68.0%
Hispanic or Latino 13.4%
Black or African American 10.3%
Asian 5.2%
Unknown 3.1%
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Foreign Languages Spoken


Spanish 76.1%
Russian 3.2%
French 2.6%
Polish 2.6%
Vietnamese 1.9%
German 1.9%
Japanese 1.9%
Swedish 1.3%
Albanian 1.3%
Dakota 1.3%
Portuguese 0.6%
Urdu 0.6%
Hindi 0.6%
Bosnian 0.6%
Serbian 0.6%
Hmong 0.6%
Ukrainian 0.6%
Korean 0.6%
Croatian 0.6%
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Great Clips Careers


Average Length of Employment
Best Cuts Inc. 3.8 years
Creative Hairdressers Inc. 3.2 years
Capelli 3.2 years
Merle Norman Cosmetics 3.2 years
Regis 3.2 years
Visible Changes Inc. 3.0 years
FIRST IMPRESSIONS 2.8 years
Salon 2.7 years
Salon Cielo 2.6 years
Great Clips 2.5 years
MasterCuts 2.4 years
Toni & Guy 2.4 years
Dellaria Salons 2.3 years
Aveda 2.3 years
Salon PS LLC 2.1 years
Big League Dreams 1.9 years
Jiffy Lube 1.9 years
Beauty Bar 1.9 years
Beauty Brands 1.7 years
Floyd's 99 Barbershop 1.7 years
Drybar Holdings LLC 1.2 years
Top Employers Before Great Clips
J. C. Penney 13.1%
Regis 12.4%
Walmart 10.1%
Creative Hairdressers 10.0%
McDonald's 9.2%
MasterCuts 7.1%
Sally Beauty Holdings 5.0%
Subway 4.9%
Macy's 3.3%
Target 2.9%
Burger King 2.7%
Ulta Beauty 2.6%
Pizza Hut 2.3%
Wendy's 2.3%
Kroger 2.2%
Best Cuts 2.1%
Kohl's 2.1%
Salon 2.0%
US Army 1.9%
Sears Holdings 1.8%
Top Employers After Great Clips
Regis 11.6%
Walmart 11.6%
J. C. Penney 11.5%
Creative Hairdressers 8.3%
McDonald's 6.7%
Ulta Beauty 6.4%
MasterCuts 5.2%
Amazon 4.6%
Sally Beauty Holdings 4.1%
Wells Fargo 3.1%
Convergys 3.0%
Macy's 3.0%
Floyd's 99 Barbershop 2.9%
Xerox 2.9%
Walgreen Co 2.7%
Target 2.7%
US Postal Service 2.6%
Subway 2.4%
Pizza Hut 2.4%
Kohl's 2.4%

Great Clips Employees Education

Schools

Empire Beauty School

22.5%

Regency Beauty Institute

16.1%

University of Phoenix

10.4%

Paul Mitchell-The School

5.8%

All Beauty College

5.4%

The Beauty School

5.1%

The Academy

5.1%

Aveda Institute

3.4%

Beauty Academy

3.1%

Kaplan University

2.9%

Rowan-Cabarrus Community College

2.2%

College of Cosmetology

2.2%

Model College of Hair Design

2.1%

College of Hair Design

2.1%

Ashford University

2.1%

Capri College

2.0%

College of DuPage

2.0%

Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana

2.0%

Arizona State University

1.9%

Milan Institute of Cosmetology

1.9%

Majors


Cosmetology 60.1%
Business 10.3%
Medical Assisting Services 4.2%
Health Care Administration 3.7%
Nursing 3.3%
Psychology 2.3%
Criminal Justice 2.2%
General Studies 1.8%
Accounting 1.6%
Education 1.3%
Management 1.3%
Nursing Assistants 1.1%
Communication 1.0%
Liberal Arts 0.9%
Marketing 0.9%
Graphic Design 0.9%
Legal Support Services 0.8%
Medical Technician 0.8%
Pharmacy 0.8%
Dental Assisting 0.8%
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Degrees


Other 45.7%
License 16.0%
Associate 12.0%
Bachelors 11.0%
Certificate 7.7%
Diploma 4.2%
Masters 3.3%
Doctorate 0.1%
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Great Clips Employee Political Affiliation


Republican Party 58.8%
Democratic Party 41.2%

Employee Political Donations

Name	Job Title	Party	Donation
Raymond BartonChairperson	Chairperson	Republican Party	$23,000Republican Party
Rhoda OlsenChief Executive Officer	Chief Executive Officer	Democratic Party	$14,800Democratic Party
Linda UsherCosmetologist	Cosmetologist	Republican Party	$1,395Republican Party
James RadebaughOwner	Owner	Republican Party	$750Republican Party
Janie LehmanOwner	Owner	Republican Party	$750Republican Party
Thomas AagaardManagement	Management	Republican Party	$500Republican Party
DAN WashburnOwner	Owner	Republican Party	$500Republican Party
Brent BrickmanOwner	Owner	Democratic Party	$500Democratic Party
David HandsOwner	Owner	Republican Party	$500Republican Party
Mary RayHairstylist	Hairstylist	Republican Party	$275Republican Party
Terry KarosyHair Stylist	Hair Stylist	Democratic Party	$250Democratic Party
Diane KelleyOwner	Owner	Republican Party	$250Republican Party
Ronald BartonExecutive	Executive	Republican Party	$250Republican Party
Viktoria JuarezHair Designer	Hair Designer	Democratic Party	$217Democratic Party
Christine FethermanHairdresser	Hairdresser	Democratic Party	$47Democratic Party
Lawrence NiemeyerHairstylist	Hairstylist	Democratic Party	$30Democratic Party
Lyla TurnerHair Stylist	Hair Stylist	Democratic Party	$20Democratic Party

Great Clips Salaries

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Frequently Asked Questions about Great Clips

When was Great Clips founded?

Great Clips was founded in 1982.

How many Employees does Great Clips have?

Great Clips has 40,000 employees.

How much money does Great Clips make?

Great Clips generates $1.0B in revenue.

What industry is Great Clips in?

Great Clips is in the consumer discretionary industry.

What type of company is Great Clips?

Great Clips is a private company.

Who are Great Clips's competitors?

Great Clips competitors include Creative Hairdressers Inc., Regis, Jiffy Lube, Salon, Drybar Holdings LLC, Floyd's 99 Barbershop, MasterCuts, Dellaria Salons, Visible Changes Inc., Best Cuts Inc., FIRST IMPRESSIONS, Toni & Guy, Big League Dreams, Merle Norman Cosmetics, Salon Cielo, Beauty Bar, Aveda, Beauty Brands, Salon PS LLC, Capelli.

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Where is Great Clips's headquarters?

Great Clips's headquarters is in Minneapolis, MN.

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