Just another corporate salon with the attitude that nothing is ever good enough. - Hair Stylist Sport Clips Employee Review

1.0
Feb 3, 2014
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Decent tips and hourly pay compared to other franchises. Flexibility in scheduling.

Cons

This used to be a really awesome company to work for, but over the years they are totally going dowhhill. All owners seem to care about is how they can make more money. They increase stylists "minimum expectations" constantly so it's harder and harder to make bonuses... (for example i have worked for 3 different sport clips franchise owners and have yet to see ANYTHING from bonuses) Once your salon as a whole comes close to hitting the "goals" they raise them even higher. I work at one of the best and busiest sport clips in the state of illinois, and even though our client retention is awesome and our numbers are great they keep pushing our minimum retail and backbar numbers to where we cant reach. They could care less how your customer service is, they just want you to push push push and upsell everyone. And when you dont they write you up and cut your hours. The hours are also completely inconsistent. I was hired as a full time employee, yet one week i will have 35 hours and the next 13. No respect for stylists, it becomes a very stressful working environment. Oh and their "5 point play" for customer service is absolutely rediculus. If you follow everything they want you to do, you sound like a robot. Even the clients laugh about it. As a whole the company is a joke. DO NOT WORK HERE!!

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5.0
Jun 3, 2026
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Pros

Pay, schedule flexibility, growth opportunities, company events, benefits

Cons

The pay is excellent as long as you’re performance is strong and especially if your flexible with your schedule and full time. But if you’re not a good performer or super part time, this might not be the best place for you.

1.0
Jun 11, 2026
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Flexible schedule and decent pay.

Cons

Team leader claimed to care about his team, but only cared about a few! Team leader cared more about employees, causing problems than the employees doing their job! Team leader got teary-eyed when an employee needed to be let go for being aggressive with another stylist! Team leader refused to pay out vacation time to an employee who quit, stating that it wasn’t policy and had never done before, employee who quit showed proof that it had been done before and team leader still refused to pay out vacation. Very few policy and procedures are followed per Sport Clips handbook, 100% would not recommend working for Sport Clips, especially at this location. Well hourly pay is decent, bonus on any level is nearly impossible, especially as a manager! As a stylist, you have to hit all three metrics to bonus at all, and as a manager, you yourself have to hit all the metrics, and you have to have at least one stylist who hits their metrics as well.

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