Hire a Spa Professional at Minimum Wage??

Hello Corporate Spa Raiders….this is not a minimum wage business.    A recent ad in a local paper offered work at a hotel spa–Nail Technician-$6.95 per hour plus tips.  Yes, the schools we go to don’t offer a four year degree, but we are professionals who have spent years perfecting our skills.  We spend a great deal of money training, learning and practicing our skills.

Do you really think it is appropriate to pay minimum wage plus tips for a perfect manicure or pedicure?  Let’s see, you get what you pay for? Or do you really want to hire a professional, someone who knows about diseases of the nails, who knows proper sanitation, who knows how to file properly, who knows how to massage to perfection?  Which do you want–the skilled professional technician or the just out of school untrained, will work for minimum wage. 

How about you?  Will you pay a little more for a skilled and knowledgeable technician?  Do you want someone who is touching you to be a professional?

Maybe the corporate spa director never had a pedicure before?  Who would have thunk it?