Good out of school experience, but ends there.
Pros
Meeting other estheticians to learn waxing techniques from. Because of the high volume, you do learn how to be more comfortable with waxing all areas. Working at European Wax Center is more of a 'means to an end.' Good for right out of school or for a first time waxer.
Cons
The bad part of working here is mainly the pay. Lots of work for very little money. Pay is $8 + 5% commission on services + 16% of product sales + bonus. The disappointing part about being an employee here is the inability to achieve any of the bonuses. They created the bonuses based on completing a certain number of service dollars in a time period. The bonus is not achievable based on the number of hours you are allowed to work in the pay period. Even at 100% booking, you cannot meet these numbers since the work week the owner/managment based them off of is a 40 hour work week, and full-time employees max out at around 30 booked hours. Knowing that your employer is making a lot of money based on the services all waxers are completing, and knowing that they only actually pay you about $10/hr with no benefits (when you're doing about a minimum of $160/hr + in services) is pretty disappointing. Also, once the waxers on the books have reached about 50% of booking, they add new waxers. So there is never really an opportunity to be completely booked. The average salary caps at around 35k/yr and that is including tips.
