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[quote=Anonymous]Indeed, the situation here is very different for each side. Let's say you live in New York and you do massage that costs, say, $90, but you get $65 out of those $90, which is more than a half. Then, you don't do massages back-to-back because it is intense, and also because you won't get enough clients. You sit at your spa or sauna all day, or you commute all day, and do, say, 4 massages a day. End up being quite tired and get... $260 for this day as an independent contractor. This is comparable to getting $200 as an employee (minus job security) for an 8-hour day, which is basically $25/hour. Now, for someone who works at McDonald's, $25/hour may seem like a lot. However, for a massage therapist with 10 years of experience, who basically dedicated his life to it, $25/hour is not a lot at all. In fact, when I taught yoga and Argentine Tango, I felt teaching privates for $50/hour was, basically, a joke --- again, because of the commute, because it is unreliable, etc.etc.etc. When someone is doing a private service for you, it will ALWAYS feel expensive to you and not enough for the other person, at least at the current state the society is in (unless you are making way more money than the average person). So, don't think that $90 for an hourly massage in New York is a lot of money. Now, as far as tipping goes, I grew up in Russia and, after moving to America, at first didn't realize how it worked. I thought that tipping was for exceptional service, very special, etc. Later, now that I've lived here for several years, I came to realize that TIPPING IS PART OF THE PRICE. It is part of the price of the service, whether you realize it or not. If you do realize it and refuse to tip for no reason, well, you are taking somebody else's money. The law allows you to get away with it in this case, but it doesn't make it any more ethical. Thus, it is important to understand, what the practices are. Hence this discussion. I'd say, if you have the money, and you don't get massages often (if you do, the therapist gets at least the reliability, that he/she has you as a regular client), and you get a really good massage --- give them a generous tip ;-) You can give 50% if you feel like it; I assure you that all massage therapists I know don't make a great living doing it. (They either have another job, or they kind of make things work.) Making a living on massage, acupuncture, chiropractice, teaching yoga, pilates, personal trainer etc.etc.etc. is not that easy for most people, and all of those things require many years of training to do well... This is just how things are. [/quote]
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