Compensation & Benefits

GCAZ's Purpose: Helping people look and feel their best, enriching lives around us.

To enrich our GCAZ Stylists’ lives, we’ll always strive to have highly competitive pay, excellent benefits, and the best salon culture!

Explore Employee Benefits with GCAZ, an Arizona Great Clips Franchisee

As Arizona’s largest Great Clips franchisees, GCAZ has the ability and desire to offer quality employee benefits, from paid time off (PTO), health insurance, dental insurance, life insurance, vision insurance, tuition reimbursement, and a matching 401k retirement plan, AND MORE!

Guaranteed Base Pay

At GCAZ, we offer an assured, competitive base wage for all of our GCAZ Great Clips franchise employees. No matter the level of employee experience, or the number of clients that a stylist serves in a day, the pay will always be guaranteed.

Make money right away with a competitive hourly wage plus GREAT tips, incentives, and bonus opportunities

Earn $20 to $40 per hour with tips & incentives
Productivity Bonus
Product Sales Bonus
Holiday Pay Incentive
Paid Time Off (PTO)

Health & Wellness Benefits

GCAZ’s Great Clips salons offer a series of health and insurance plans for salon employees, including salon managers, assistant managers, stylists, and Interns. The GCAZ Employee Assistance Program also includes free mental healthcare for employees.

Health, Dental, & Vision Insurance*
Short and Long-Term Disability
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Company-Paid Life and AD&D Insurance

*portion paid by GCAZ

Other GREAT GCAZ Benefits & Incentives

401(k) Retirement Plan

With 100% Matching Contributions

Referral Bonus

Receive a cash bonus for any licensed cosmetologist or barber referral!

Product and Tools Discounts

GCAZ offers product and tool discounts for all stylists.

Employee Recognition & Service Year Celebration

GCAZ celebrates its Great Clips team who have been with the company for five years with a great celebration! GCAZ hosts an annual lunch, with cash gifts based on years of service.

Personal Growth and Development

As one of Arizona’s largest Great Clips franchisees, GCAZ offers Great Clips sponsored training with Great Clips University (GCU), the GCAZ mentoring and skills training program, and financial independence training.

  • GCU is a comprehensive online training program that aids salon managers, stylists, and receptionists in the development of essential skills, which includes customer service, technical support, how to recognize trending haircuts, and professional leadership and management skills. 
  • GCAZ in-house training adds to the skills learned at GCU. All training that our stylists receive is free of cost. As an added bonus, we compensate our employees who attend any training.
  • Dave Ramsey Financial Peace University learning is available for GCAZ employees. With Financial Peace University, employees learn the proven plan to pay off debt fast and save more money for their future. This 10-week Dave Ramsey Financial Peace University program is paid for by GCAZ, once a year.

GCAZ Fun & Events

  • GCAZ Fun Calendar

    GCAZ employees are often treated to Fun Calendar days with food and other perks! This could be a special cookie delivery to Great Clips salons to celebrate National Chocolate Chip Day or National Stylist Appreciation Day when GCAZ gave everyone a new pair of shears.

  • Team Bonus

    GCAZ conducts many contests and team challenges to encourage fun in the salons, help grow our business, enable our employees to challenge themselves, and support each other to win prizes and team bonus funds. In 2021 we’ve given our teams over $35,000 in team bonus funds to use for salon outings, prizes, team recognition, and salon team fun!

  • Sunshine Program

    GCAZ’s Sunshine Program recognizes and encourages acts of kindness. The purpose of this program is to brighten each other’s day through recognition of daily achievements and important life events; words of support and encouragement; and acts of kindness.

Join a hair salon with a lot to offer, that’s Arizona-based Great Clips franchise® GCAZ Services. Whether you're a new (or about to be new) hair stylist, or you're an experienced hair stylist looking for your next career move, we want you to become great with us.

You can work close to home, at one of our many hair salons across Arizona - from Sierra Vista, Tucson, Casa Grande, Maricopa, metro Phoenix, Cottonwood, Kingman, Lake Havasu City to Bullhead City. The pay and benefits are great too! Make money right away with a competitive hourly wage, along with great tips, incentives, and bonus opportunities.