want to work for zero tips? Come on down to sport clips! - Hairstylist Sport Clips Employee Review

2.0
Feb 1, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Pros: Fast paced, men’s cuts only, so quick and simple, laid back clientele, comfortable dress code

Cons

Cons: Your tips on card payments do not leave the register, so they get taxed. And at least at this location every single customer pays with a card. So much is taken out on my paycheck it really feels like I’m working for no tips. Each haircut you take has like a 1,0000 step list of each specific thing you need to remember and do EXACTLY how you were shown. I really wouldn’t mind all of that if I was actually getting the great tips the company bragged about which led to me applying. Made me buy expensive new clippers Stylists are required to pay for the products we are required to use on customers. Stylists are responsible for any state board fines the store gets (is this legal..?) was told the stylists in the store split the cost if there is ever a fine. Very rude management. A common response from management when asking for help is an eye roll or condescending chuckle. Mandatory unpaid work events. Unprofessional environment, management gossiping in front of clientele etc Lots of late closing shifts followed by opening shifts barely 12 hours later. No commission. There is ‘incentive’ for when you hit certain numbers in every category (retail sales, impossible haircut times, AND up selling numbers) all need to reach unrealistic quotas to make any incentive, I was even told my a coworker oh my first day that they’re practically impossible to actually reach

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Sport Clips Response
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I appreciate your feedback and am sorry to hear about your experience. Have you spoken to your store owner about your concerns? I know they would want the opportunity to address them. Each store owner does provide their own compensation plan and make there own schedule. Feel free to reach out to me at contact.us@sportclips.com.

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5.0
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Pros

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none, I have to say, if you're willing to work and make something of yourself and want to work for a great company that will recognize that. This is the place to be!

1.0
Jul 10, 2026
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Pros

No pros beside it being a paycheck

Cons

Wasn’t allowed to have colored hair as a stylist, franchise owners in Arizona push their conservative beliefs on employees, didn’t even allow facial piercings, as time goes by and I’m working at an amazing salon and being treated for what I’m worth, being valued and paid an actual living wage, being allowed to express my individuality, being able to finally find somewhere where I’ve been able to blossom in my 8 years of hairdressing, I’m realizing just how awfully sport clips treats their employees, absolute joke of a wage for the productivity, work, and hours they expect, started here fresh out of beauty school and was constantly undermined, a lot of workplace bullying, favoritism, outcasting stylists that didn’t fit the perfect Sportclips “ideal.” Unless you want to be a slave to Sportclips, and constantly told cut faster cut faster sell more sell more and creating an uncomfortable experience for the stylist and client, making it feel like a sales job, it’s such an outdated way to operate, to hit numbers for the commission you’d have to sell like a car seller and do 10-15 minute haircuts for hours on end. don’t work here. Not to mention the average tip clients leave is 5-7 while you get a minimum wage hourly. Just a spit in the face.

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