Pricing Tool
Grooming Price Calculator
Enter your real monthly expenses and your take-home goal, and get the minimum price per minute you need to charge to cover costs and pay yourself.
The calculator
Find your price per minute
Facility overhead and chair time included.
Time actually spent grooming, not hours open.
Your take-home goal, before taxes.
Facility & overhead
Staffing & HR
Insurance & professional
Marketing & technology
Equipment
Grooming consumables
Grooming supplies
Monthly expenses
$0
Cost / min
$0.00
Min price / min
$0.69
30-min groom
$21
60-min groom
$42
90-min groom
$63
How to read it
Three numbers that matter
Monthly expenses
What it costs to open the doors
Every dollar that leaves the business each month, before you pay yourself. If a line item is seasonal or annual, divide it into a monthly amount.
Cost per minute
Your break-even floor
Expenses divided by billable minutes. Charge below this and every groom loses money, no matter how busy the book looks.
Minimum price per minute
The number to price from
Expenses plus your target pay, divided by billable minutes. Multiply by the length of a groom to get your floor price for that service.
Pricing notes
Four things worth remembering
Know your minutes
Track actual hands-on time for every groom for 30 days. Your own data, not industry averages, should drive your prices. This calculator gives you a rock-solid starting point.
Billable hours are not open hours
Only count time you are actually grooming. Cleanup, phone calls, no-shows, and admin are overhead — they belong in your expenses, not your billable minutes.
Owner pay is an expense
If your take-home comes out of whatever is left, you have no price floor. Set the number you need, then let the math tell you what to charge.
Raise prices annually
Review every January. A 5 to 8 percent annual increase keeps pace with supply costs and positions your business as premium. Loyal clients follow a groomer they trust.
Need per-breed prices instead of a rate?
The Groomer Business Kit turns a rate into breed-by-breed pricing, factoring coat type, weight class, and groomer skill level — plus the waiver forms you need on file.
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