Hiring my first employee!

I am a clinically based skin care center in Oregon. I do corrective facials, clinical peels, IPL, full body waxing, microdermabrasion and skin classic services. I am wanting to hire my first employee in January 2015. I am expecting to hire part time initially and want them to do facials, waxing, and help with marketing via facebook and email. Any suggestions on where to start the wage at? In Oregon the majority of estys rent their space. Not many are employed and get paid an hourly wage. So, there is just not much information to figure out what is fair. Would love to hear what everyone has to say!

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Permalink Reply by Teresa Escoffery on October 11, 2014 at 12:42pm

First off, banish the word "fair" from your vocabulary. Has nothing to do with it and everyone has their own definition. Fair is a relative concept, you need to deal with absolute concepts.

You need to figure out what the job is worth to you, and then offer that as payment for doing the job.

You also have to take into account the other costs of having an employee to make sure you can afford to pay what the job is worth. Payroll taxes add about 20% to the salary cost of an employee. Workers Comp insurance adds another 5-15%. Both of these costs apply to tips as well as hourly and commissions.

Marketing work is NOT the same as doing services. Anyone can do it, which makes it worth much less than a trained esthetician. But then y ou are asking a trained esthetician to do work anyone can do for the pay that such work is worth -- you will need to have a way to distinguish the time spent on such duties and the pay that goes with it.