How do you pay your Head Therapist?

[Pompal 09.]

Hi Group!  I'm considering promoting one of my 7 massage therapists to a head therapist position.  The postion would require that they help manage the other therapists, assist with education/reviews/certifications, assist with hiring & training of new therapists, etc. as well as provide massage services to clientele.All my therapists are employees.  They are paid a perceneforum.xxxe, by appointment. Does anyone have a head therapist and if so, how do you pay them?  I've thought about paying them more per treatment, but that may encourage them to do MORE services, leaving no time for the other responsibilities.  I want to be fair and make sure this person is properly compensated for their efforts.Any advice will be appreciated.Kay

 

[VeganAlexa]

How do you pay your Head Therapist?

i kind of talked about this at the end of this thread
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i was musing, and have no idea whether this would work for you.

edit: this thread was lost in the board move. :

 

[Corn]

Great!  And thank you, I'll check it out.  Any other suggestions????

 

[MegMarshmellow]

Will they still be taking the same number of appointments and keeping their perceneforum.xxxe?If so, you could tack on a monthly salary and some sort of bonus structure  for the training/certifications.Like a sales director who still sells.  They'd get their commission plus a small salary and bonuses.If they won't be able to take as many appointments then I'm sure you'd want to compensate for that plus whatever "raise" you come up with.

 

[Dawg Man]

How do you pay your Head Therapist?

your other option is to figure out what he/she is currently averaging for the full time hands-on work. then calculate how many hours per week you need your head therapist for other things. then you need to determine the weight of these activities and decide if you think those hours need a larger, same or less compensation than the typical fee he/she would receive for massage.maybe that is a flat hour rate for those non-massage hours to be added to the massage commmissions; maybe you'll come to the conclusion that salary is better.the bottom line for most folks is how much money is in their check for an average workweek.

 

[fixed wheel yellowbelly]

Thank you both.  Again, great suggestions.  I need to do some figuring and come up with some numbers. Kay

 

[Pompal 09.]

How do you pay your Head Therapist?

Does anyone have a Head Therapist?

 

[Pompal 09.]

I am head therapist at my location, I pay myself 100% of the profits of my efforts.  So far, I have not yet paid myself a single dollar.  But I am hopeful that soon I'll get a raise.  Sorry, hope this added some levity...if not, well that was the intention, so read it again from my prospective or maybe I'll edit it.  

 

[devy]

Hehehehe... I know the feeling... I co-own a business too... paycheck, what paycheck?  ???PS... I think that mush has some good advice.

 

[SkyXVll]

I used to work for a company that had  "lead therapists".  My first piece of advice is to be careful what title you give this person.  It will affect your other therapists.  Whether you think it will or not, I'm telling you it most likely will.  They may not say anything to you but I can guarantee if you don't word things properly, your other therapists will have their noses out of joint.  Be cautious when saying "managing the other therapists" and using any terms as to them being "in charge".  You may want to put it as an "education coordinator", just "coordinator" or  maybe not even have a different title for them.  I think it's one thing if you start your business with a lead therapist but to expect your employees to now answer to one of their collegues as the "superior", that's tough.  Ok ~ with that said, the lead at our company was paid 70%.  Everyone else, 60%, 55% or 50% depending on your revenue for the pay period.  It might also be a good choice to pay some sort of "bonus".  Though that can be tough too.  If others know they are getting a "bonus" that could be a problem.  I think a higher perceneforum.xxxe is the way to go.  As far as being concerned they will do more services, it never was a problem.  The work they will have to do will be on their own time and they will have to find a way to make sure that it gets done.   You may want to bring it up in a meeting that you've got some other responsibilities that need to be covered and that "Susie Therapist" will be helping you with that.  Instead of making it a "Susie Therapist" is going to be our Head therapist and will be in charge of the rest of you kind of thing.  Make sense? Please know that I've mentioned these things to bring up the possibilities that it could happen.  Of course I don't know your staff and the way you run your business.  I just think it's always great to hear how things have worked at other places and you may be enlighted on something you may not thought of.  Hope any of this helps.