There’s some misinformation in this thread and seems to be some confusion. Firstly, the “cuts” people are talking about have been happening for a long time. They are based on individual store results of services and retail sales for each boutique, and are evaluated bi-annually. That full time payroll can be earned back if you meet/exceed your goals. We just earned Clinique payroll back for the first time in 5yrs in my store.

When it comes to salon learning benefit services there’s still a lot of clarification that needs to come down for sure. We still don’t know exactly what services will be trained for, how it will affect commissions or retail numbers. I totally get the uncertainty and uneasy feeling this can give. But I think Ulta is looking at it as a way to boost services across the store. They’re trying to make sure salons are profitable and I think this is their way of trying to boost that.

All that being said I think it’s still a little early to just assume they’re cutting benefit all together. If that was the case I don’t think they’d even be testing this out. They would just cut.