How Much to Tip a Hair Stylist
You are standing at the front desk, your hair looks great, and the card reader is waiting. This is the moment the whole appointment comes down to a single number, and for something you do every few weeks it can feel weirdly high-stakes. The short answer is 20 percent of the service price, and that one number covers most of what you need. The rest of this guide is the detail underneath it: what to do on a big color bill, how to handle a discount or a Groupon, who else gets a tip, whether you tip the person who owns the place, and exactly what the dollars look like at every price point.
Here is the answer most people came for, stated plainly: tip your hair stylist 20 percent of the full service price. Fifteen to twenty percent is the accepted range, but 20 percent is the modern default and the number stylists quietly expect for good work. On a $50 cut that is $10. On a $120 cut and color that is $24. On a $250 balayage that is $50. The percentage does not change based on how simple or complex the service was, because a percentage already scales with the price, and the price already reflects the time and skill your stylist put in.
What trips people up is never really the base percentage. It is the surrounding questions. Do you tip more for color than a cut? Do you tip on the discounted price or the original one? Does the shampoo assistant get something separate? What about the holidays? And the big one: do you still tip if your stylist owns the salon or rents their own chair? Those are the situations this guide is built to answer, with concrete dollar figures so you are never guessing at the register. If you want a fuller picture of tipping across every service, the complete guide to how much to tip puts hair in context with restaurants, delivery, hotels and the rest.
Type your service price into the free Waldev Hairdresser Tip Calculator and it works out 15, 18 and 20 percent instantly, plus the new total. Prefer the all-purpose version? The Waldev Tip Calculator handles any bill and splits it across people. This guide gives you the rules; the calculator gives you the figure.
What this guide covers
The 20 percent standard, and why it stuck
Ask ten people how much to tip a hair stylist and most of them will land somewhere between 15 and 20 percent, with 20 doing the heavy lifting. That range has been remarkably stable, and the reason is simple: a haircut or color is a long, hands-on, personal service performed by someone whose income depends heavily on tips and on you coming back. When your stylist spends 45 minutes on a cut or three hours on a color correction, the tip is not a bonus for exceptional service the way it might be at a hotel. It is a built-in part of how the work is paid for, much like a restaurant server. That is why the floor is 15 percent rather than zero, and why the everyday number has settled at 20.
The data backs this up. A 2025 survey of salon guests found that the most common tip across services now falls in the 20 to 24 percent band, with about a third of haircut customers tipping in that range. It also found a generational split worth knowing about: nearly half of baby boomers said they typically tip 20 percent or more for a haircut, compared with roughly one in three of the youngest adults. So if you tip 20 percent, you are squarely in the majority and on the generous side of the middle. Stylists in the same survey reported that clients tend to underestimate how much they rely on tips, with a meaningful share saying gratuities make up around a fifth of their annual income. In other words, the number matters more to the person holding the scissors than most clients realize.
There is a practical reason 20 percent won out over 15 or 18, and it is arithmetic. Twenty percent is the easiest tip to calculate in your head, because you find 10 percent by moving the decimal one place to the left and then simply double it. On a $70 service, 10 percent is $7, so 20 percent is $14. No phone required. Fifteen percent takes an extra step, and 18 percent is genuinely annoying to compute without a calculator, which is a big part of why neither became the default. If you want the same logic applied to a barber, a haircut specifically, or a full salon visit, those live in the hairdresser tipping guide, the how much to tip for a haircut guide, and the broader tipping at a hair salon guide. This page stays focused on the stylist and the money that goes to them.
The one-line rule: tip your hair stylist 20 percent of the full service price. Fifteen percent is the acceptable floor, 20 percent is the standard, and 25 percent or more is generous-territory for a stylist you love or work you adored. Everything else on this page is just this rule applied to real situations.
Tip-by-price quick chart
Because the honest question underneath “how much do I tip my hairstylist” is usually “what does that come to in dollars,” here is the reference table most people actually want. Find the price closest to your service and read across. These figures use the standard 15, 18 and 20 percent tiers so you can see the range and pick your spot. When your bill lands between two rows, round to whichever clean number feels right; nobody is auditing the cents.
| Service price | 15% tip | 18% tip | 20% tip | Typical service |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $25 | $3.75 | $4.50 | $5.00 | Kids’ cut, bang trim, quick clean-up |
| $40 | $6.00 | $7.20 | $8.00 | Basic women’s or men’s cut |
| $60 | $9.00 | $10.80 | $12.00 | Cut and blow-dry |
| $80 | $12.00 | $14.40 | $16.00 | Cut with styling, root touch-up |
| $100 | $15.00 | $18.00 | $20.00 | Single-process color |
| $120 | $18.00 | $21.60 | $24.00 | Cut and color combo |
| $150 | $22.50 | $27.00 | $30.00 | Partial highlights, gloss |
| $200 | $30.00 | $36.00 | $40.00 | Full highlights, cut and color |
| $250 | $37.50 | $45.00 | $50.00 | Balayage, corrective work |
| $350 | $52.50 | $63.00 | $70.00 | Full color correction, extensions |
Notice what the chart makes obvious: the percentage never moves, but the dollar tip climbs right alongside the price. That is the whole point of tipping on a percentage. A stylist who did a three-hour, $250 balayage earns a $50 tip at 20 percent, while a stylist who did a $40 trim earns $8, and both are being paid the same rate for their time and expertise. You do not need to manually tip “extra” for a big color, because the math already does it for you. Where you might add on top is for an assistant, which we cover below, or for a genuinely exceptional experience.
Cut vs. cut and color: same percentage, different dollars
This is one of the most common sources of confusion, so let us settle it cleanly. You do not tip a higher percentage for color than for a cut. The standard 20 percent applies to both. What changes is the dollar amount, because color simply costs more, and 20 percent of a bigger number is a bigger tip. A $45 haircut earns roughly a $9 tip. A $180 full highlight earns roughly a $36 tip. Same percentage, four times the dollars, because the color took four times the money and, usually, several times the labor.
Where people get tangled is on a combined appointment, the classic cut-and-color day. Say you booked a $60 cut and a $120 color at the same visit, for a $180 total. You tip on the whole thing, not on each piece separately, and at 20 percent that is a single $36 tip. If the same stylist did both services, one tip covers it. If a different colorist did your color and a different stylist did your cut, which happens at larger salons, then you split the tip between them in rough proportion to what each service cost: about $24 to the colorist for the $120 color and about $12 to the stylist for the $60 cut. Ask the front desk if you are not sure whether one person or two handled you; they will tell you, and many salons can even distribute tips for you.
Color also tends to involve more people behind the scenes, which is the one place a combined service can nudge your total tipping up. If an assistant mixed and applied your foils, walked you to the bowl, and rinsed and toned you while the colorist worked on someone else, that assistant did real hands-on work and is customarily handed a separate few dollars. That is not part of the 20 percent to your stylist; it is on top. We break down exactly how much in the assistants section below. For a deep dive dedicated purely to color, including corrective color and how to tip when a service spans two appointments, see the hair color and colorist tipping guide.
When a cut and color are done by different pros, split the tip in proportion to each service. The Hairdresser Tip Calculator can work out 20 percent of each piece so you know exactly how much to hand each person, and the salon tipping guide explains how multi-chair salons typically handle it.
Tip on the full, pre-discount price
This is the rule that saves stylists real money and the one clients most often get wrong: when your service is discounted, you tip on the original full price, not the reduced amount you actually paid. The logic is straightforward once you hear it. A discount is a marketing decision made by the salon or by a deal platform. Your stylist did the same amount of work at the same skill level whether you paid full price or used a coupon, so the tip should reflect the work, which is the full price, not the promotion.
Say your salon runs a new-client special that knocks a $150 color down to $100. You hand over $100 at the desk, but your stylist spent the same two-plus hours on your hair as they would for any full-paying client. Tip 20 percent of the original $150, which is $30, not 20 percent of the discounted $100, which would shortchange them $10 for no reason they can control. The same holds for a birthday discount, a loyalty-punch-card freebie, a friends-and-family rate, or a percentage-off promo.
The most important version of this rule is the deal voucher, the Groupon-style offer. Those vouchers are already deeply discounted before your stylist sees a penny, and the platform takes a large cut of what remains, so the stylist often earns very little on the service itself. Tipping on the full menu price is close to essential in that situation, and many stylists will tell you the tip is the main thing that makes a discounted-voucher client worth taking. If you booked a $120 blowout-and-style package through a deal site for $60, tip on the $120: that is about $24, handed over in cash if you can. Skipping or shrinking the tip because you got a deal is the single most common way well-meaning clients accidentally underpay.
Discounted service, correct tip:
Full menu price = $150 → you paid $100 after a promo.
Tip = 20% of $150 = $30 (not 20% of $100 = $20).
Groupon $120 package bought for $60 → tip 20% of $120 = $24.
The one exception worth naming is a genuine service recovery, where the salon comps or heavily discounts your service because something went wrong the last time, like a color that had to be redone. In that case you still tip generously on the value of the work being done now, because the person fixing it is doing full labor, and often the redo takes longer than the original. Tip on what the corrected service would normally cost.
Assistants and the shampoo person
Larger salons run on a team, and the person who washed your hair, applied your color, or handed foils to your colorist is often an assistant or apprentice earning a low base wage while they train. They are easy to forget because they are not the one who hands you the mirror at the end, but they did real, hands-on work on your head, and a small separate tip for them is customary and genuinely appreciated. The going amount is $5 to $10 handed directly to the assistant, or slipped to the front desk earmarked for them, on top of the percentage you leave your main stylist.
How much within that range depends on what they actually did. A quick shampoo and a scalp rinse is a $3 to $5 gesture. An assistant who spent 30 minutes carefully applying a full head of foils, then came back to rinse, tone and rough-dry you, did substantial work and is closer to the $10 end, sometimes more on a big color. If the same person who cut and colored your hair also washed it themselves, there is no separate assistant to tip; your 20 percent to the stylist covers everything. The separate tip only applies when a distinct second person handled part of your service.
A practical tip on logistics: keep a couple of small bills on you when you go for color, specifically so you can hand the assistant their tip directly. It means more coming straight from your hand, it guarantees the right person gets it, and it avoids the awkwardness of trying to divide a card tip three ways at the desk. If you only have a card, ask the front desk whether they can split the tip between your stylist and the assistant; most salons can, though cash removes all doubt.
Do you tip a stylist who owns the salon, rents a booth, or rents a chair?
This is the question that generates the most genuine uncertainty, because the old etiquette and the current reality point in different directions. For decades, the rule of thumb was that you do not tip the owner. The reasoning went that the owner sets the prices, keeps the full amount, and is therefore compensating themselves rather than working for a tip. That rule has largely faded. Most salon owners today accept tips, many depend on them just like their staff, and refusing to tip a stylist purely because they happen to own the place feels increasingly out of step. The safe, modern default is to tip a stylist-owner the same 20 percent you would tip anyone else.
That said, the owner is the one person who truly will not mind if you tip less or nothing, because they keep 100 percent of the service price. So if you are on a tight budget and have to trim somewhere, the owner is the most defensible place to do it. If you have a warm, long-standing relationship with an owner-stylist, tipping normally is a kind way to acknowledge the work; if you are a one-time client and money is tight, a smaller tip on an owner is unlikely to cause offense. When you genuinely cannot tell and want a single rule, tip the standard 20 percent and move on. The dedicated do you tip a salon owner guide walks through the etiquette in more detail if this is your exact situation.
Booth renters and chair renters are not owners
Here is the crucial distinction people miss. A stylist who rents a booth or a chair is not the salon owner. Under a booth-rental or chair-rental arrangement, the stylist pays the salon a flat fee, weekly or monthly, for the right to use a station, and in exchange they run their own little business inside someone else’s space. They buy their own products, set their own schedule, and, critically, still earn their living one service at a time. They are not pocketing the whole price of your visit; a big chunk of their income is already committed to that rent before they ever pick up the scissors.
So you tip a booth renter or chair renter exactly like any other stylist: 20 percent of the service. The rental deal is a private arrangement between the stylist and the salon and has nothing to do with what you owe. If anything, booth renters are shouldering more overhead than a commission stylist, so the tip lands as meaningfully for them as for anyone. And in practice you almost never know whether the person cutting your hair rents their chair, is on commission, or is an employee, which is the strongest argument of all for simply defaulting to 20 percent for every stylist and not trying to reverse-engineer their business model from the chair.
Tip the standard 20%
Employee stylists, commission stylists, booth renters, and chair renters all work service-by-service for their income. Tip them 20 percent of the full price, every time. You usually cannot tell them apart anyway.
The one flexible case
A stylist who owns the salon keeps the full service price, so tipping them is welcome but optional. Twenty percent is the gracious default; a smaller tip on an owner is the one place it will not sting.
Cash vs. card: does it matter?
Both are acceptable, and no stylist will think less of you for adding a tip on the card. But if you want the tip to do the most good, cash has quiet advantages, and stylists themselves clearly prefer it. In the 2025 salon survey, a large majority of stylists said they would rather receive cash tips. There are concrete reasons. A cash tip is in their hand the same day rather than landing in a paycheck two weeks later. It is not shaved down by the card processor’s fee, which some salons pass along. And in a few salons, card tips can get pooled or delayed in ways cash never does. When you hand over cash, 100 percent of it goes straight to the person who did your hair.
None of this means you should feel bad tipping on a card, which is completely normal and often the only practical option if you did not plan ahead. The realistic middle ground is to bring some cash when you can, especially for color days when there is likely an assistant to tip separately, and to fall back on the card without guilt when you cannot. A useful habit: stop at an ATM before a big color appointment and pull out enough to cover 20 percent of the service plus a $10 assistant tip in small bills. It costs you nothing and puts the full value in the right hands. For the broader logic of when cash beats card across all services, the main tipping guide has a full section.
The holiday tip for a stylist you see regularly
If you have a stylist you have seen every few weeks for a year, the holidays are the moment to acknowledge that relationship with something beyond your usual per-visit tip. The widely cited convention for a regular service provider is a holiday tip roughly equal to the cost of one full service, given on top of the normal tip for whatever appointment you are in for. So if your standard cut and color runs about $150, a holiday gesture in the neighborhood of one service, so somewhere around $100 to $150, is generous and firmly within the norm. If you see your stylist less often, or your budget is tighter, scale it down; the gesture matters more than hitting an exact figure.
You have flexibility in how you deliver it. Some clients give the extra cash directly at their December appointment. Others give a smaller cash tip plus a thoughtful gift, a bottle of something nice, a gift card to somewhere the stylist actually likes, or a handwritten note that means more than people expect. What matters is that the person who has kept your hair looking good all year feels appreciated at the one time of year the gesture is customary. A good rule: if you would be genuinely put out to lose this stylist, the holiday tip is worth doing, because it is also a quiet investment in staying a valued client. For where holiday tipping fits among all the other year-end tips, the Waldev tips section has more.
Holiday tip rule of thumb: for a stylist you see regularly, add a holiday tip of roughly one full service on top of your normal per-visit tip, or pair a smaller cash tip with a gift. Scale it to how often you visit and what you can comfortably give.
Worked dollar examples for real appointments
Percentages are abstract, so let us run through the exact situations people actually book, with the real numbers spelled out. These are the appointments where “how much do you tip your hairstylist” turns from a rule into a specific amount you hand over.
One stylist, quick wash, cut, and a rough dry. Tip 20 percent, which is $9. If you loved it or you are a regular, round up to $10. No assistant, no separate tip. Total out the door: about $54 to $55.
Twenty percent is $14. A clean $14 or a rounded-up $15 covers it. If the same stylist washed and styled you start to finish, that single tip is everything you owe.
Twenty percent is $22. If an assistant applied the color and rinsed you, hand the assistant $5 to $8 and give the colorist $22. So roughly $27 to $30 total in tips, ideally split in cash.
Twenty percent of $200 is $40 to your stylist. If a shampoo assistant helped, add $10 for them, bringing your tipping to about $50. This is the appointment where bringing cash really pays off.
Say $180 color plus $80 cut, two different pros. Tip about $36 to the colorist and about $16 to the stylist, for $52 total. Add $10 if an assistant handled your bowl work.
Tip on the full $120, not the $60 you paid. Twenty percent of $120 is $24, in cash if possible, because the deal site already took most of what the stylist would have earned.
Even though you are paying little or nothing, tip on the value of the work: 20 percent of the normal $220 is $44, because the person redoing it is doing full, often longer, labor.
See the pattern. The base tip is always 20 percent of the full service value, the assistant is a separate few dollars when a second person did hands-on work, and the discount or comp never lowers the tip. Once those three ideas click, you can price any appointment in your head. And if you would rather not do the arithmetic at the desk, the hairdresser tip calculator shows you 15, 18 and 20 percent side by side the second you type in the price.
How to calculate a stylist tip in your head
You do not need an app for this, though it is nice to have one. The whole trick is finding 10 percent first, because 10 percent of any number is just that number with the decimal moved one place to the left. From there, every tip you might leave is one small step away. On an $85 service, 10 percent is $8.50. Double it for 20 percent and you get $17. Take half of the 10 percent figure and add it for 15 percent, so $8.50 plus $4.25 is $12.75. That covers the entire acceptable range in about five seconds of mental math.
Find 10% — move the decimal one place left.
20% tip = the 10% figure, doubled.
15% tip = the 10% figure, plus half of it.
Example on a $130 color: 10% = $13, so 20% = $26 and 15% = $19.50.
Two small habits make this even easier at the salon. First, round the service price to the nearest ten before you start, so a $118 bill becomes $120 in your head and the math gets cleaner; the couple of dollars of difference rounds in the stylist’s favor, which is exactly where you want it. Second, when in doubt between two amounts, go up, not down. The gap between a $24 tip and a $26 tip is two dollars to you and a nice gesture to someone whose livelihood runs on these numbers. If you would rather have the precise figure and the option to compare tiers instantly, the Waldev Tip Calculator does it all, including splitting a shared bill if you and a friend booked back-to-back and want to combine.
What to do when the service was disappointing
Tipping is meant to reward good service, so what happens when it was not good? The honest answer is that a low tip is a blunt instrument, and it often punishes the wrong thing. If your stylist was warm, attentive and skilled but you are unsure about the cut, that is usually a communication or preference issue, not a service failure, and the tip should stay at your normal 20 percent. Hair grows, styling changes how it sits, and a lot of first-day doubts vanish by day three. Dropping the tip in that moment mostly signals frustration you have not actually voiced.
Where a reduced tip is more defensible is genuine service failure: the stylist was dismissive, rushed you, ignored clear instructions, or the result was objectively wrong rather than just not your taste. Even then, the more productive move is to speak up before you leave. Most stylists would far rather fix a problem than lose a client, and many salons offer a free redo within a week or two if something is not right. Give them the chance. Reserve the low tip, meaning 15 percent or occasionally less, for situations where you would not return and the service truly did not meet a basic standard, and consider a calm word with the front desk so the salon understands why.
On the other side, do not overlook the chance to reward a great experience. If a stylist rescued a bad prior color, squeezed you in for an emergency fix, or simply nailed exactly what you wanted, tipping 25 percent or more and, just as valuable, leaving a warm online review and requesting them by name next time, is how you keep a good stylist happy to see you. A generous tip plus a five-star review is worth more to a stylist than either one alone.
Common hair-stylist tipping mistakes
Even people who are happy to tip well slip into a handful of predictable errors, and each one quietly shortchanges the stylist. Knowing them in advance is the easiest way to avoid them.
Tipping on the discounted price. The most common mistake by far. If your $150 color was discounted to $100, tip 20 percent of $150, which is $30. The stylist did the full job; the discount is not their contribution to make.
Forgetting the assistant. The person who washed your hair or applied your color is often on a training wage and is easy to overlook. A separate $5 to $10 in their hand is customary on any service where a second person did hands-on work.
Assuming the owner should not be tipped. That etiquette is largely outdated. Most owner-stylists accept and rely on tips today, so default to tipping them normally unless you specifically need to save and they are the flexible place to do it.
Thinking a booth renter is an owner. A chair or booth renter pays rent to the salon but still works service by service and is tipped the full 20 percent like any stylist. The rental deal is not your concern.
Never tipping in cash. Card tips are fine, but cash reaches the stylist faster, dodges processing fees, and is what most stylists prefer. Bringing a little cash to color appointments is a small kindness with real value.
Skipping the holiday tip. If you see a stylist regularly, the year-end tip of roughly one service is a customary and appreciated thank-you that a lot of clients simply forget to plan for.
If you keep those six in mind, you are tipping better than most clients your stylist sees. The throughline is simple: tip on the real value of the work, remember everyone who touched your hair, and lean toward cash when you can. For how these same principles apply to a barber, a haircut on its own, a colorist, or the salon experience as a whole, the sibling guides on tipping a hairdresser, tipping for a haircut, tipping a colorist, and tipping at a hair salon pick up where this one leaves off.
How much to tip a hair stylist: frequently asked questions
How much should you tip a hair stylist?
The standard is 20 percent of the full service price, with 15 to 20 percent considered the acceptable range. Twenty percent is the number most people reach for and the one stylists expect for good work. On a $60 haircut that is $12, on a $120 cut and color that is $24, and on a $200 balayage that is $40. The percentage stays the same whether you got a simple trim or a multi-hour color, because it scales with the price and therefore with the time and skill involved.
Do you tip more for hair color than for a haircut?
You do not use a higher percentage for color, but you end up tipping more in dollars because color costs more. The same 20 percent applies to a cut and a color, so a $45 haircut earns about a $9 tip while a $180 full highlight earns about $36. If your color appointment involved an assistant who applied foils or rinsed you at the bowl, hand that person a separate $5 to $10 on top of the stylist’s tip.
Should you tip on the price before or after a discount?
Tip on the full, original price, not the discounted amount. If a $150 color is discounted to $100 through a promotion, a Groupon, or a new-client deal, your stylist still did the full $150 of work, so tip 20 percent of $150, which is $30. The discount comes out of the salon’s or the deal site’s margin, not the stylist’s effort, and many deal vouchers are already deeply discounted before the stylist ever sees a cut of it.
Do you tip a hair stylist who owns the salon?
The old etiquette said you never tip the owner, but that tradition has largely faded. Today most owners accept tips and many rely on them, so tipping a stylist-owner the same 20 percent you would tip any stylist is welcome and appropriate. If you prefer not to, an owner is the one person who will not be offended by a smaller tip or none at all, since they keep the full service price. When unsure, tip normally.
Do you tip a booth renter or chair renter?
Yes. A booth renter or chair renter pays a flat weekly or monthly fee to the salon for their space, but they are not the salon owner and they still work for their income service by service. They are tipped exactly like any other stylist, 20 percent of the service. The rental arrangement is between the stylist and the salon and does not change what you owe. You usually cannot tell whether your stylist rents a chair, which is another reason to simply tip the standard 20 percent.
Is it better to tip a hairdresser in cash or on a card?
Both are fine, but cash is quietly better for the stylist. A cash tip reaches them the same day, is not reduced by the card processor’s fee, and in some salons is less likely to be delayed inside a paycheck. Surveys of stylists show a clear preference for cash. If you pay for the service on a card, it is perfectly normal to add the tip on the card too, but bringing a few bills means the whole tip goes straight into your stylist’s pocket.
How much should you tip your hairdresser at the holidays?
A common holiday gesture for a stylist you see regularly is a tip equal to roughly one full service, in addition to your normal per-visit tip on that appointment. If your usual cut and color runs $150, a holiday tip of around $100 to $150, or a thoughtful gift plus your standard tip, is a generous and well-received way to thank someone who has looked after your hair all year. Adjust to your budget and how often you visit.
What if you cannot afford to tip 20 percent on an expensive color?
Tipping is voluntary, and 15 percent is still within the acceptable range if 20 percent stretches your budget on a large color bill. What matters most is that you tip something reasonable on the full price and stay consistent. If money is tight, you can also book less often, choose a lower-cost service, or see a junior stylist, rather than skipping the tip on a full-price appointment. A stylist would rather you rebook at a comfortable interval than overextend once.
The quick version
Tip your hair stylist 20 percent of the full service price, every time. The percentage does not change between a cut and a color; the dollars just get bigger as the price does. Tip on the original price even when you used a discount or a Groupon, hand any shampoo or color assistant a separate $5 to $10, and tip a booth renter or chair renter the same 20 percent you would tip anyone, since they are not the owner. Cash is quietly better than card, and a stylist you see all year deserves a holiday tip of roughly one service.
For the exact figure on any appointment, run the price through the free Hairdresser Tip Calculator or the all-purpose Waldev Tip Calculator. From there, explore the related guides on tipping a hairdresser, tipping for a haircut, tipping a colorist, and whether you tip a salon owner, browse more tipping tips, or head to the full business calculators collection on the Waldev homepage.
Note: The tipping ranges on this page reflect common customs in the United States as of 2026 and are provided for general informational purposes only. Tipping is voluntary and norms vary by region, salon, and situation. Always adjust for the quality of service and your own budget, and check your bill for any gratuity or service fee that may already be included.
Zenoti’s 2025 survey on the state of tipping in salons tracks average tip ranges by service, generational differences, and what stylists actually prefer. See the salon tipping survey →
Remitly’s hair stylist tipping guide lays out the 15 to 20 percent standard with dollar examples for cuts, color, and discounted services. Read the hair stylist tip guide →
