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[quote=Anonymous]If your take home is $300-$350 a week and you spent 600-650 hours of school to make this kind of money....

....then you are a fool.  Begging for tips won't help your foolishness.  i.e. don't ask us to support it.

10-15% tip is VERY reasonable for a masseuse.  If someone told me they wanted more I would ask for the whole tip back and never come there again.  Tip is NOT REQUIRED and if you choose to be grubby about it, there are consequences to those actions.

If you don't like those consequences...GET ...ANOTHER....JOB.

I had a rude a-hole of a taxi driver last week.  When I deboarded he asked me how much tip i was gonna leave and I told him the only tip he was getting was "to be nicer and more polite to your passengers".  He didn't like that tip but I told him this would be a great experience for him and that he would learn a lot from it.  When I was acting like a moron when younger, I learned a great deal from it when people called me out on my selfish behaviors.

[quote=Anonymous]You typically tip a server at a restaurant 15-20% of the bill. They spend about 5-10 minutes with you out of an hour meal. A massage therapist, who trains  on average 600-650 hours of school, 70 hours of clinical experience, on going required continuing education, is responsible for discerning safe practice, required to carry a state license and liability insurance, is CPR certified and spends every single moment of that 60 minutes healing, relaxing, de stressing and using their extensive knowledge to relieve your pain. 
In the discount member based massage franchises they receive apox 15-17 hour. They are limited on how many massages they can do in a day. Take home pay averages about 300- 350 A week without your tips so they mostly all must keep a second job. 
The tipping above is nonsense. 
I am a massage therapist and have personally experienced this. If you know your therapist has done well ,  do as 
you do with your favorite bartender-- overtip!!![/quote][/quote]

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