Solo Kit
Everything a stylist working for themselves needs: your real hourly rate, a menu priced to earn it, a price rise that pays, tax sorted, and colour costed to the gram.
Sole traders
Take-Home Hourly Rate Calculator
Your takings turned into a real hourly wage, after rent, product, tax, ACC and every hour of admin.
$59 launch price until 30 November 2026, then $99 · buy once, NZD · about 15 minutes to fill in
Take-home hourly rate$30.42
- Services a client hour brings in, excl GST
- $67.93
- Left after business costs
- $48.38
- Spread over every hour worked
- $38.71
- After income tax and ACC
- $30.42
- Price lift to hit the goal
- +26%
What it tells you
- Your real hourly rate, before and after tax, across every hour you work and not only the ones with a client in the chair
- How that stacks up against an employed stylist once holiday pay, sick leave and KiwiSaver are counted
- How much more to charge, or how many more hours to book, to reach the income you're after
Have these handy
- A typical week's takings
- Your chair rent or room cost
- Rough monthly costs: product, phone, insurance, software
- Roughly what you spend on retail stock each week
- Hours you work, including the admin
The sample panel shows the tool's real answer for its built-in sample numbers. Type over them with your own.
Sound familiar?
“My book's full every week and I still couldn't tell you my hourly rate.”
“Some weeks I wonder if I'd be better off back on wages.”
Your numbers stay yours
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General information to help you make your own decisions, not financial, tax, legal or employment advice. Check anything that matters with your accountant. Prices are in NZ dollars. No GST is charged.
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