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Before you sign that spa or clinic agreement, check these three things.

Massage therapists sign contractor agreements, room rentals and employment offers. The details that matter are similar across them: what you pay or are paid per session, whether you can keep clients if you leave, and who covers no-shows.

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Example
Medium risk— a few terms deserve a closer look

This spa agreement can reach clients you brought in yourself and lets the spa revise your commission.

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Against youHigh · Restrictions

Client restriction reaches clients you brought

“Any client of the Spa” can include people who followed you there once they have booked through the spa.

Ask for

Check its length and who it covers, and ask for clients you brought in to be excluded.

  • The commission can be revisedLow · Payment
  • No pay for late cancellations or no-showsLow · Payment
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The numbers

In May 2025, there were 98,790 wage and salary jobs for massage therapists in the U.S., with a median annual wage of $58,450.

Median hourly wage, U.S., May 2025: massage therapists ($28.10) and 28 other occupations these pages cover. Each dot is one occupation's median.

These figures count jobs, not people, and do not include self-employed work — so they say little about how many massage therapists work freelance or run their own business.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025, national estimates for SOC 31-9011. Public domain.

Room fees, client limits and no-shows

  1. Room fee or commission — Check how the split or rent is calculated and whether it can change during the agreement.
  2. Client restrictions — A non-solicitation clause can stop you seeing clients you brought in yourself. Check its length and who it covers.
  3. No-shows and cancellations — Look for whether you are paid when a client cancels late or does not come.

Check the agreement before your first booking

Small terms in a spa agreement add up over a year. Free: one analysis every 30 days, no card. Each analysis gives a risk read of the key clauses, quotes the contract's own words for its findings, and turns each flagged clause into a specific ask.

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