Vancouver, British Columbia
Running a Vancouver salon? Know how many clients pay for today.
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Labor is set to BC's $18.25 minimum wage: two people for 8 hours is $292.00. The $60 average visit is only an example. Change any number.
Rent, insurance, subscriptions, loan payments
What you pay staff on a normal day
What one customer spends, on average
Food and drink cost as a % of the check
30 = open every day. 26 = closed one day a week. 22 = closed two.
Customers to break even today
18 customers
That is $1,080 in sales.
Your costs today$754
$462 fixed + $292 labor
Each customer contributes
$42.00
What is left after cost of goods
We divide your monthly fixed costs by the 26 days you open. Then we add one day of labor cost. Each customer covers only what is left after cost of goods. That is why the number is higher than your costs divided by the average sale.
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The free fix
The free fix, from KANJIN (kanjin.app), a digital stamp card and back office for small shops: Free profit by item.
See which services make you money
Type each service's price, what it costs you in products and how many you do in a week into the free back office. A chart shows which services make you money and which only keep you busy. The more each client leaves, the fewer clients cover the day.
Free plan, no time limit. No card needed.
Short answer
How many clients does my Vancouver salon need each day to cover its costs?
Add up one day of rent and wages, divide it by what each client leaves after color, product and supplies, and round up. At BC's $18.25 minimum wage, two people on an 8-hour shift cost $292.00 before the first client sits down.
Count clients, not hours open
Your rent, the chairs, the dryers and the people on the schedule cost the same on a quiet Tuesday and a full Saturday.
So the daily target is a number of clients. How many do you need before the day stops losing money?
Type your own rent, wages and average visit into the calculator above. The answer is your daily target.
Tips are your staff's, not your sales
In BC, tips belong to the person who served the client. An employer cannot keep them or make staff hand them over.
An employer can pool tips and share them among the staff who earned them. The employer can only take a share if they do similar work.
So leave tips out of your sales number. Use what clients pay for the service and products.
Sick days are part of the wage bill
After 90 days with you, a BC employee can take up to 5 paid sick days a year.
Those paid days cost money even when nobody does a client. Put a little extra into your daily wages so the target stays honest.
Know which services pay best
Not every booking leaves the same. A quick service can leave more than a long one.
The free profit-by-item chart shows every service by what it leaves and how often you sell it. Push the ones that earn, and fix the price or the cost on the rest.
How to work out your salon's daily break-even in Vancouver
- Add up one day of fixed costs.
Take your monthly rent, insurance and bills, and divide by the days you open.
- Add the day's wages.
Hours on the schedule times the hourly pay. In BC that is at least $18.25 an hour.
- Find what one visit leaves.
Your average visit before tax and tips, minus the color, product and supplies it uses.
- Divide and round up.
The day's costs divided by what one visit leaves. That is how many clients cover the day.
The local numbers, with sources
- BC minimum wage
- $18.25 an hour since June 1, 2026; it changes each year by the BC Consumer Price Index
- Source: Government of British Columbia, Minimum wage, checked 2026-11-08.
- Tips in BC
- Tips belong to the person who served the customer; employers cannot withhold them unless pooling or required by law, and can share a pool only if they do similar work
- Source: Government of British Columbia, Tips and gratuities, checked 2026-11-08.
- BC paid sick leave
- Up to 5 paid sick days a year, after at least 90 days with the employer
- Source: Government of British Columbia, Paid sick leave, checked 2026-11-08.
Common questions
What is the minimum wage in BC now?
$18.25 an hour since June 1, 2026. Each year it changes by the BC Consumer Price Index, rounded to the nearest 5 cents.
Can a BC salon owner keep the tips?
No. Tips belong to the staff who served the client. You may pool them and share them among the staff who earned them, and you can only take a share if you do similar work.
How do I work out how many clients I need each day?
Divide one day of fixed costs and wages by what one average visit leaves after color, product and supplies. Round up. That is how many clients you need each day.
Does profit by item cost anything?
No. Profit by item is part of the free KANJIN back office, with no time limit. Your services are kept with your shop, on every device you sign in on.
Do it for your own shop, free
Put in what each item costs and sells for, and see which ones earn you the most.
Set your daily target once. Each day’s sales show whether you made it.