Great Clips salaries

pros: only doing haircuts & shampoos primarily. some style services, but they are rare.

the hours are awful. corporate refuses to get with the times and realize salons should not be an open 7-days a week industry. stylists do need to be available for clients when clients are available, but there should be a trade off of the salon being closed 1-2 days/week. traditional salons/barber shops are closed Sunday and Monday, this is also what the typical client coming into Great Clips expects, shocked we're open on Sundays. Other things include HEAVY restrictions on stylists. Not flexible on hours for full time employees. No work-life balance to be attained, especially if you're in management.

Franchisees are held hostage I think by out-of-date expectations for business operations.The younger generation does not want to work in an environment GC creates.

Be realistic with the new desires of the younger work force. Enable better work-life balance for people. Raise pay rates and be realistic about the products they sell and the expectation for their stylists to sell product. the cost of living is so high anymore, the average client can sometimes hardly afford a haircut, let alone a tip, and product is out of the question. their product prices continue to rise, making product even harder to sell. Great Clips needs to make some hard decisions that are going to be worth it in the long run to get quality employees that want to stick around.

I did not need to. I wasn't given an interview, just hired because I was another body.

I was a general manager when I worked under GC so my wage was higher than an average stylist. many full time employees would average about 40-50k/year. some made 35k.

Where I live, diversity is rare anywhere. But there was definitely a lack of diversity amongst our salons.

Feeling proud of my work and internal satisfaction drives me. I love connecting with people and making them feel better about themselves.

Flexible schedule, fast pace, customer experience and management

The pay, no benefits

Work you to death for not enough pay

None

They lie about benefits you get nothing

I love the atmosphere, the perks, the co-workers, the clientele, and the owners.

Since COVID we are a lot slower so not getting enough hours and looking for work that goes more with my husband’s new journey he retired still does work but not as busy as the last 30 years. He was a firefighter/ chief and town administrator so after 30 years he was able to retire and enjoy life. I’m not ready to retire mentally or financially. I need to be busy.

The little special things the owner does to show we are appreciated and the family atmosphere.

Love cutting hair and im good at it too

Dont pay enough

Staying busy and getting tips

Working

No benefits and no advancement above management of franchise

No benefits for employees at Franchise level

Utilizing my skills to enable happiness and confidence

VERY erratic schedulle

the potential of increasing my hourly wage by being better at my job.

Clients were fun and I enjoy working with other people

Sometimes there can be too much drama also not always clear on regulations the tend to change depending on the situation

Tips were terrific although the hourly pay was minimum wage my tips made my checks look very good

Great and helpful teammates, supplies nice acessories like blow dryers, straighteners.. combs but you get to bring your own haircutting tools. Management works hard to be fair with work schedules

Healthcare benefits is 50/50 with you & employer

um idont like the manager and low pay

compatable were i live

that i can work part time

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

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.

I enjoy my career very much People and products such as American Crew

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