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LOHA's Chair Rate Calculator
Find Out What Your Chair Actually Needs to Earn.
Your prices shouldn't be based on what the Loctician across town charges.
They should be based on what your business and your life actually require.
LOHA’s Chair Rate Calculator is a guided pricing tool created specifically for Locticians + Braiders to help you calculate what your chair needs to generate per hour and per minute—using your actual numbers.
No competitor comparisons. No guessing what clients might pay. No complicated spreadsheet formulas.
Just your numbers → your chair rate → clearer pricing decisions.
Because being booked doesn't automatically mean you're priced right.
It's easy to price a service based on how long it takes, what other professionals charge, or what sounds like a reasonable number.
But your service prices cover much more than the hours you spend behind the chair.
Your business needs to account for:
✓ Your personal cost of living
✓ Your business operating expenses
✓ Estimated taxes
✓ Your actual available working time
✓ The time you plan to take off
✓ The profit you want your business to generate
LOHA's Chair Rate Calculator brings those numbers together to calculate a Recommended Chair Rate that's specific to you.
Here's how it works…
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Enter Your Numbers
The calculator guides you through your personal expenses, business expenses, estimated taxes, desired profit, schedule, and planned time off.
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Get Your Recommended Chair Rate
Your numbers are translated into the amount your chair needs to generate:
Per Hour + Per Minute
Now you have an actual financial foundation for evaluating your service prices.
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Test the Price
Here's where your chair rate gets practical.
Use the built-in Test the Price section to enter one of your actual services and see how your Recommended Chair Rate translates based on the time that service takes.
Have an add-on?
You can test that too.
Instead of walking away with another number you don't know what to do with, you can immediately see your chair rate in action against your services.
This calculator is for you if...
✓ You've been checking competitor prices before setting your own
✓ You aren't sure what you actually need to make per working hour
✓ Your pricing mostly revolves around service time
✓ You're booked or busy but still wondering where the money went
✓ You haven't fully accounted for taxes, expenses, time off, and profit
✓ You're preparing to raise or restructure your service prices
✓ You want numbers you can actually use when reviewing your service menu
Their number isn't your number.
Another Braider can charge $200.
Another Loctician can charge $350.
And neither number tells you whether your business can afford to charge that much.
Their rent isn't yours.
Their schedule isn't yours.
Their expenses aren't yours.
Their time off isn't yours.
Their financial goals aren't yours.
So why should their prices determine yours?
LOHA's Chair Rate Calculator gives you a starting point built around the business and life you actually have.
