Salary, Commission, or Points — The Right Way to Pay Your Tailors

Salary, Commission, or Points — The Right Way to Pay Your Tailors

By Elizabeth Esotor

Paying tailors the wrong way can destroy your profit, reduce productivity, and create endless conflict in your factory or fashion business. This book provides a clear, structured guide to the three major tailor payment systems — Salary, Commission, and Point-Based — so you can choose the one that supports both growth and stability.

Inside, you’ll learn:
✨ The pros and cons of each pay method
✨ How to design a payment structure that motivates without draining your profit
✨ Transparent systems that eliminate arguments, confusion, and distrust
✨ How to calculate fair rates for simple, semi-complex, and complex garments
✨ Exactly when to use salary, when commission works, and when points are best
✨ How to integrate bonuses, retention fees, and incentives the right way
✨ Real-life examples from garment factories and RTW brands
✨ Templates you can use to implement your chosen system immediately

This book helps you:
✔ Build a happier, more productive tailoring team
✔ Control labor cost while increasing output
✔ Prevent overpayment, underpayment, and disagreements
✔ Operate with structure, fairness, and full transparency
✔ Run your production like a real fashion business — not a guessing game

Whether you manage 3 tailors or 30, this guide gives you everything you need to create a fair, profitable, and scalable payment system.

Pay right. Motivate right. Grow right.