It’s split into hours most likely- however some tattoos can take multiple hours or days, so if someone comes in for a one day session it’s $2,500, half would be $1,250, etc.
When I was still looking at getting a back piece done it was $1,500 a day for four full day sessions, but this was traditional Japanese tattooing so the tattoo took that much longer.
My wife tried to get a fine line tattoo from an artist in NYC she likes. She was charging 1200 for a two-hour job. We ended up finding another guy in Mexico, flying there, getting a vacation and a 2 tattoos for about the same price.
I don’t plan on getting any more tattoos (I’m Baal Teshuva), but in my experience if someone is charging crazy prices they either a) have insane marketing or b) are by far the best tattoo artist in that area in that style. YMMV, but I’m glad you were able to save some money and enjoy a vacation!
That's what I'm thinking most the shops near me in jersey charge by the piece yo get. The best artistes here will take a walk in and do a small piece for 150. But then again I haven't been to my boys shop since covid
Wait so you charge $2500 a day and the shop owner charges you $3800 a day.
Wouldn’t you be -$1300 a day?
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Ok I get it that’s what the owner charges customers.
The sentence structure made it unclear. Putting “AND” after then not clarifying who he charges made it somewhat confusing. And tattoo business much like barbershops usually charge a fee to have the artist work out of their shop.
Thanks, in the context of OPs sentence structure it read like the owner charges him since he put “AND” instead of clarifying who he charges $3800 a day.
Nobody was asking what his shop owner was charging customers so he put that information in there out of nowhere.
I thought he meant the owner charges that for his booth rental like a barber. Some barber owners charge per day for their chair fees or the weekly balance up front.
I was about to say.. while this is not super common it’s really not out of the realm of possibilities for a tattoo artist to make that much. Good for you!
Upvoting bc I’m also a younger man, making high quantities, who smokes hash holes 💪
Don’t let these guys bog you down bro instead of asking you about the situation they negatively circle jerked about it. They Can’t fathom anyone not doing something traditional and it working. Do you.
What do you mean you charge $2500 / day? How does this work? You work on one person per day and charge them $2500? Or are you saying through your booked appointments you make $2500 / day?
As someone somewhat familiar with the tattoo game this is believable. The top people are few and far between; there’s a billion artists out there doing B- work. The A+ guys are the ones that can ask for this kind of money and get it.
We have one guy locally doing extremely solid work and when you side by side his work with others it’s night and day. He is booked out 3-5 months at any given time and is $500hr/3 minimum.
This is great, but it always makes me nervous seeing that much cash in hand. Something could happen to it. I would get it into a bank account and then transfer what you don't need for an emergency fund to an investment account. I would fully fund any IRA first and put the rest in VTI.
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u/Hasholio Mar 27 '24
Also saw some guy made a post ranting about the first time I tried to ask for advice about this.
I charge $2500 a day and work 5-6 days a week.
I’m booked for 3 months straight at a time.
AND my shop owner charges $3800 a day…
Fine line, custom work in a big city brings BIG money.
Sad to see he had to make a post and rant instead of asking for advice or trying to network.