Apprentice Pay Scale

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JVS
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Fri Apr 15, 2005 12:12 pm

I was just curious what the different Mentors here do with their Apprentices as far as pay scale goes?
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BadWolf
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Fri Apr 15, 2005 6:33 pm

Pay an apprentice??

BWAHahahahahahahaha!

How much do they pay you to go to college??



There is no pay for an apprentice.
JVS
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Sat Apr 16, 2005 10:14 am

Sorry, I worded my question incorrectly. What I meant was when they had worked their way up to the point where the shop was charging for their tattoo work how do different shops go about working them into a paid tattooist. Example, do they start off with 30% and then work their way up as their experience grows. Just trying to see what the general consencus was.
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Sat Apr 16, 2005 10:21 am

Depends if you want an employee, which you have to pay taxes and SS for, or a private contractor. If they are an employee, you supply everything except possibly machines, power supply and tubes, and they make less of a cut.

If they are a private contractor, you CANNOT legally supply ANYTHING other than space, so the studio gets a smaller cut, but has less expenses.

All my people are private contractors, and they are trained. They get a 60% cut.
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