How pay is worked out

Salon pay doesn't look like office pay. One person is on straight commission, another has an hourly safety net, the newest hire is salaried, and everyone's tips arrive through the till. Adding that up by hand every two weeks is where mistakes — and arguments — come from.

RewireBox watches the sales, tips and clocked hours as they happen, and turns them into one report: a row per person, a column per reason, and a Total at the end.

The five ways someone earns

Flat commission. A percentage of every service they perform. Bella is on 45%, so a period with $6,940.00 of services pays her $3,123.00 in service commission.

A sliding scale. The rate climbs with the period's sales, through tiers you define. It comes in two flavours: zero-based, where the tier you reach applies to everything you sold, and progressive, where each tier's rate applies only to its own slice — like tax brackets. Same sales, noticeably different totals, so it's worth knowing which one you mean.

An hourly floor. Pay the greater of commission or an hourly wage, so a quiet fortnight still pays the bills. Marcus clocked 24 hours and sold nothing; his row shows $528.00 — the hourly side winning outright.

Salary. A fixed annual amount, prorated by the days in the period. Priya's $52,000 salary pays $1,994.52 across a two-week period. Her row still shows the $56.00 commission her services would have earned — but shown is all it is; salary replaces commission in the total rather than stacking on it.

Product commission. A separate rate on retail sales, with per-category overrides — and this one always adds on top, whatever else applies.

Tips arrive on top of all of it, straight from the sale — see Tips and tip pools.

How they combine

Service commission is flat or sliding — pick one. If the hourly floor is on, the period pays whichever of the two is greater. If the person is salaried, salary replaces the result. Product commission and tips are added regardless. Salary and commission never add together; hourly and commission never both pay.

The rate is frozen when the sale is

Each sale line keeps the commission rate that applied the moment it was paid. Change someone's rate today and it applies from the next sale onwards — what their closed sales already earned stays exactly as it was. That's what makes re-generating a report always safe: the maths reruns, the history doesn't move.

Where RewireBox stops

The Total is gross pay — what each person earned. RewireBox never withholds taxes, never files anything, and never moves money. When the numbers look right you hand them to your payroll provider or accountant, and they turn gross into net — see Sending it to your payroll provider.