Is this piercing actually paying you? Free, no signup.
Everything below is measured against this rate. Jewelry is counted at your cost, not your retail price.
The downsize visit and the "is this normal" messages are real work. Count them.
A "free" downsize still costs you the shorter bar and the chair time. Put it in.
If you booth-rent, spread the daily rent as a flat fee per expected piercing instead.
Assumes every piercing pays and costs like this one.
Piercing quotes die on the service fee. Jewelry cost, the unpaid downsize visit, and the shop cut come off the top, so this calculator prices the piercing from what you keep. Start with your bar: minimum dollars per hour (75) and a daily take-home goal. Pick a piercing preset, Lobe, Cartilage, Facial, or Navel, each filling the service fee, procedure minutes, and unpaid follow-up minutes as editable starting points. Pick a jewelry preset, Titanium or Solid gold, filling your cost and the client price, then disposables per piercing. Tick the free downsize box and enter the swap cost, because a free downsize is not free to you. Enter the shop cut percent and any flat per-piece fee. Results show what the client pays, your costs, the house take, what you keep, committed time, and your real hourly rate. The reverse-price card shows the all-in price that hits your bar, with fee plus jewelry broken out. The day planner turns your goal into piercings. No signup; runs on your phone.
Example only, not typical pricing. Lobe defaults at a $75 bar: $40 fee + $45 titanium jewelry = $85 client pays. Costs = $20 jewelry + $8 supplies = $28. Committed time = 30 + 20 = 50 minutes = 0.833 hrs. You keep 85 - 28 = $57. Effective rate = 57 / 0.833 = $68.40/hr, which is within 80 percent of the bar, so the verdict is CLOSE, BUT LEAKING. To hit the bar you need to take 75 x 0.833 + 28 = $90.50, so the all-in price is $91: a $46 fee plus $45 jewelry. Add a 40 percent shop cut and the house takes $34, so you keep $23 and the rate falls to $27.60/hr, which is UNDERPRICED. A $400 daily goal needs 400 / 57 = 7.02, rounded up to 8 piercings, which is 6.7 committed hours.
**Q** Should I quote a service fee plus jewelry, or one all-in price?
The tool models fee plus jewelry because that is how most studios split it, but the verdict judges the all-in total. Use the reverse-price card to see the all-in number and how it breaks down.
**Q** Why does the downsize cost me money if the client gets it free?
The shorter bar costs you wholesale, and the swap takes chair time you could have sold. Tick the box and the tool adds both the jewelry cost and keeps the follow-up minutes counted.
**Q** How does the shop cut change the price?
The tool grosses the price up: the all-in revenue needed is (what you must take + flat fee) divided by (1 - cut percent). A 40 percent cut means you must charge far more than your costs plus wage.
**Q** What does THE SHOP EATS THE MARGIN mean?
After jewelry costs and the shop cut, nothing is left for you. The card shows the minimum all-in price that leaves your wage intact, so you can take it to the conversation with the house.
**Q** How do I use the reverse price?
It is the all-in price that pays your bar after costs and the cut, rounded up to the dollar, broken into fee plus jewelry at your current jewelry price. Raise whichever side your market will bear.