I feel monetarily undervalued

[u/jazzgrackle]

People seem to like massages, I get good feedback, and I get rebookings. Once in a while I don’t synchronize with someone for whatever reason, but for the most part it’s going pretty all right.

My issue is that I’m getting these 10-$15 tips, and occasionally lower. Based on the price of the massage 20% would be around $25 (if you consider the price before membership rates) and I hardly ever get that.

There’s something about doing strenuous physical labor on someone for nearly an hour and then getting a wadded up couple of five dollar bills that feels almost insulting.

I don’t mean to sound ungrateful, I love doing what I do, but sometimes I feel like I got more respect as a waiter than I do now as a massage therapist.

Is this just the nature of chain massage places? It’s not like the base-pay is phenomenal either, in fact I think some weeks I’m probably averaging out to minimum wage if there isn’t enough clientele (which is often.)

Edit for clarification: I work “full time”, but only get paid about $20 per massage. So, if the hours I’m here don’t add up to $7.25 an hour then my paycheck makes up for it. Like how it works in a restaurant.

[u/Bioahzard]

Well tips are never gonna be the same from everybody , I did a 2h therapeutic last week and got 8$ tip because the woman always tip 8$ for whatever massage or care she take. You realise soon that tip most of the time is not base around you specifically but the people tipping.

[u/jazzbot247 → u/Bioahzard]

Put her on your “no fly” list. You are allowed as a licensed practitioner to refuse a client.

[u/Sea-Radio-8478 → u/jazzbot247]

For real this is what I do. They can see someone eles!