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Thank you yeah I work my ass off to complete exhaustion every day, and I deserve $1,000 per client, but I only get paid $1,000 every two weeks 😭 and anyone who can afford massages can certainly afford to pay me $1,000 per massage. I must find a way to make this happen.
1k per massage is like American hospital kinda money 😅
And we all know that kind of money is certainly floating around and landing in some people’s hands. I’m one of those people who is deserving of $1,000 per client. I work my ass off to exhaustion. And not only do I work hard but I take impeccable care of my health too, this is over-the-top perfection here. Pay people what we’re worth.
And how many clients would you say you have per day/week?
The harder I work, the more money I deserve. Five happy glowing grateful clients a day. Great for them, exhausting for me.
So you’re saying you deserve one hundred thousand dollars a month for this work? Not jokingly? That’s over a million dollars a year. 🙂
You think that’s outlandish? I’m pretty sure both you & I are aware that there are people who earn more than that per year for doing a whole fuckton less work than I do. People lose their minds over how good & essential massages feel, and they keep coming back for more. IF YOU APPRECIATE US SO MUCH, PAY US ACCORDINGLY!! WE’RE NOT SLAVES!
If I’m being honest, yes, I think I do feel that $1,200,000 a year is a lot of money to be making as a massage therapist. Even after taxes. Heck, it’s a lot of money to be making as a CEO of a company. You could retire very early with a salary like that.
Don’t get me wrong, people feel good after getting a massage, but it’s not like it’s necessary to survive.
I understand you work hard and feel like work effort should equate financial reward, but ultimately it’s the usefulness or utility or result/feeling of the service that’s being paid for, not the effort it took to provide it.
If we’re talking about the cost to you of providing the service, that’s different. If the cost is super high for you to be able to give massages, then you have expenses that need to be paid, and massages become a premium luxury service. But even I can afford a massage now and again because it “only” takes human labour. (I’m just guessing what it “takes”. No offense! Again, I understand you work your ass off, don’t get me wrong here.)
But yeah, sadly, prices are determined by the demand, I guess. What are people willing to pay for a thing, you know.
We all feel like we “deserve” to make a billion dollars before 35 and retire early and live our best life in our best years. But ultimately nobody deserves anything but a chance at happiness and a healthy life. Just a chance, mind you. That’s my opinion. 😅
I’m a software developer helping big, big companies save millions of dollars probably every year. Do I get a cut off those savings? No. The company I consult for does. But I don’t know if I deserve to either. I get paid what I need to have a good life. I can properly support my family, eat proper, healthy, homemade food, have a nice car, etc.
But do I deserve more? Why would I be worth more than someone else? It doesn’t take a lot of physical effort. But a lot of mental effort! Is that worth less? Mental stress? Ruining my body and life expectancy by sitting for hours every single day? Is that something that’s worth more than other types of work?
I don’t know if I have answers to these questions. I don’t know if I can just put a number on what I’m really “worth”. All I know is what I want.
Anyway, this is long and wandering into philosophical land, so I’ll cut it here for now. 😅
I work to complete exhaustion of my body & mind & soul EVERY FUCKING DAY. People drain my very SOUL and ALL my muscles. Do you think there should not be a high value placed on that?? I give my absolute ALL to appreciative repeat customers, and you think that’s not worth a living wage?
What is your opinion of massage therapists?
Maybe you think massage therapists are only worth pennies because perhaps you have some stereotypical perception of submissive Asian ladies who you can’t communicate with due to language barrier, so they don’t talk and they were raised with a slave work ethic mindset. Hell they might even be trafficking slaves who barely get paid because they’re illegally massaging without licences.
Yesterday I had to renew my bi-annual massage license which cost $330 which is 2-3 days of net pay for me. That hurt a lot because I’m still trying to pay off my credit card after getting new belts on my vehicle & rear differential service & brake fluid exchange & coolant flushing & pinion seal repair & new key fob all at once which cost $4700, and I fucking LIVE in this car because my job doesn’t pay me enough to afford rent or mortgage anywhere.
I’m a Caucasian American girl who grew up surrounded by millionaires and I paid $10k out of my own pocket to graduate from an accredited massage school in Falls Church Virginia near where the Kennedy family lived during Kennedy’s presidency. I eat clean & exercise hard & painstakingly maintain my mesomorphic 104 lb tiny frame. Jaws drop & heads turn whenever I walk by people, and they know I work hard for all this. And I know my value.
I give my all to my job, my body-mind-soul yet they do not pay me enough to live comfortably. They pay me enough to live in my car and buy enough food to survive.