Manager Salary?

[HTU258]

I am getting ready to open soon and need a manager. Right now I am offering a salary of $450 per week + Commission & Bonus plan. At this time, I have no one interested. People apply, then never commit to an interview. Am I not offering enough salary? I am in central Florida and it's not an overly high income area like Miami or something.

Anyone have recommendations or can tell me what they offer their manager when they first started? - thanks!!

[RonnieT.]

Question:

1.) Is this your first salon?
2.) Will you be a hands on owner...(working their yourself) and if so how many hours per week?
3.) If your answer to #1 is yes...and #2 No, then why?

Basically saying....if this is your first place why are you not managing it? Could be simple answer like you have another job...

I have always looked at it like this. If a manager is going to do what I consider a managers job is....They need to make a living at it. Pretty hard to live on anything less than $2500-$3000 / month.

RonnieT.
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[Tanning Queen]

What does your franchisor tell you is a good salary? Have they laid out what is required of a mgr? If so, you can go on salary.com and put in your zip code and job title and see what they say.

[RonnieT.]

Oh ya...your a franchisee....sorry. Still what I said...just a little less.

Ya..what queenie said..

[Brian Oshman]

Give 'em 50K a year otherwise they will be robbing the other 25K a year from you anyway.

Avoiding that would require you to run it yourself.

Best advice is to not open a salon.

[HTU258]

I will not be working in the salon full time. I own 4 other businesses and never had a problem finding a manager for those. I also plan on opening 2 more tanning salons later this year for a total of 3.

The franchisor is helping with salary ideas and I have a 6 page document that describes what is required of the manager. I just wanted to get some other opinions from people already in the business.

[Glowtanning530]

I dont know what advice to give regarding this. I generally run my salon myself and am very hands on. I have found it hard just to fine decent employees for my salon. I wish I could help.

[HTU258]

Originally Posted by Brian Oshman

Give 'em 50K a year otherwise they will be robbing the other 25K a year from you anyway.

Avoiding that would require you to run it yourself.

Best advice is to not open a salon.

Damn bro...why so negative? Are you having a bad day...want a cookie?

[Glowtanning530]

50k a year is manager rate here.

[EliteMike]

You can get away with a low base rate, but your commission table better be way better than an employees.

[Jones]

Image, may I take a look at the requirements of that position...
Quote:
I have a 6 page document that describes what is required of the manager. I just wanted to get some other opinions from people already in the business.
Your problem might be in presentation.

[dbl-a]

I may as well get a job managing a salon that pays $50k! That sounds VERY high. Where are you located that you are paying that much?

[Glowtanning530]

California
Mcdonalds managers make that.

[baskinthesuntanning]

I'd say anywhere from $40k-$48k plus commission. Must have commission!

[phattmatt]

Lakeland .....from what I can rememeber has a population under 30k people, no major tourist attraction, very little water for boating and tourists. Manager salary for $450 a week wouldnt need any perks but will be hard to find qualified talent for that spot.

Grooming somone for the postion will also be hard.

[movieking]

My video store manager in Lakeland made $525 per week salary plus bonuses and that was 4 years ago.

[Le]

Commission makes a manager compete against the other employees rather than support them. Use a quarterly bonus system instead (but only for the manager). Then implement a yearly bonus for all employees (over 6 months). Have the amount increase based upon months employed.

[JustTans23]

Or you could give the manager commission based on how well the employees do. Like they do in car sales.

[HTU258]

Originally Posted by JustTans23

Or you could give the manager commission based on how well the employees do. Like they do in car sales.

Nice idea...thank you!

[JustTans23]

thanks I'm glad I can finally give someone some advice instead of the other way around.