A wake-up call to future henna artists!
I just got emailed this job posting... and wanted to remind my fellow henna artists and henna artists to be that you can *easily* charge $50/hr even in the slowest location, and should probably be making more like $150 if you're in a busy beach / resort-ish location like this one:
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ARTISTS - TATOO ARTISTS ARTISTS WANTED Temporary Henna Tatoo Artists for busy [Famous Beach Name Erased] Beach location. $8-$10/hr. CALL (XXX) XXX-XXXX
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...job postings like this make me ill. (and yeah, that 2x misspelling of "tattoo" was theirs... really professional, huh?)
If you are or know a local highschool student who thinks $8-10/hr to draw on people is great compared to whatever other minimum wage job you might be able to easily get... you're very right... but these rates are utterly abusive when you look at the big picture. A "busy beach location", if they really are busy and really by the beach, is probably bringing in $200/hr+ worth of business! So $190+ per hour is being stolen directly from you, the artist, and put into the pockets of the corporate fat cats running the establishment you're working for. Even if it's insanely slow for a beach location, you should *easily* be bringing in $60/hr...and thus $50/hr is being stolen from you.
If you want to start working as a henna artist, work with an independent professional who will show you the ropes while giving you a fair share! Even a beginning apprentice tends to make $25 per hour at a busy location, and that's if they work incredibly slowly...
If you want to learn henna from real henna artists and get hooked up with the well-paying gigs, consider coming to the Northeast Henna Gathering where there will be artists around who will be happy to work with you as a peer-in-training and not someone to blatantly exploit...
(note: monetary amounts [except for the hourly rate this establishment is paying its artists, which was published] are speculation, as every situation is of course different, but it's very much experience-based speculation...)
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ARTISTS - TATOO ARTISTS ARTISTS WANTED Temporary Henna Tatoo Artists for busy [Famous Beach Name Erased] Beach location. $8-$10/hr. CALL (XXX) XXX-XXXX
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...job postings like this make me ill. (and yeah, that 2x misspelling of "tattoo" was theirs... really professional, huh?)
If you are or know a local highschool student who thinks $8-10/hr to draw on people is great compared to whatever other minimum wage job you might be able to easily get... you're very right... but these rates are utterly abusive when you look at the big picture. A "busy beach location", if they really are busy and really by the beach, is probably bringing in $200/hr+ worth of business! So $190+ per hour is being stolen directly from you, the artist, and put into the pockets of the corporate fat cats running the establishment you're working for. Even if it's insanely slow for a beach location, you should *easily* be bringing in $60/hr...and thus $50/hr is being stolen from you.
If you want to start working as a henna artist, work with an independent professional who will show you the ropes while giving you a fair share! Even a beginning apprentice tends to make $25 per hour at a busy location, and that's if they work incredibly slowly...
If you want to learn henna from real henna artists and get hooked up with the well-paying gigs, consider coming to the Northeast Henna Gathering where there will be artists around who will be happy to work with you as a peer-in-training and not someone to blatantly exploit...
(note: monetary amounts [except for the hourly rate this establishment is paying its artists, which was published] are speculation, as every situation is of course different, but it's very much experience-based speculation...)
posted by Henna by Heather at
11:22 AM
1 Comments:
We should set up a giant, decorated henna tent right next to their location. And do gorgeous henna at fair prices, and if their henna person is any good...recruit them to work in our tent instead of for whatever greedy (and illiterate) business that is!
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