Home Staging Offers High Income in Slow Economy

If you´re trying to find out everything you can about being in the home staging business, you´ve probably heard of a program guaranteeing employment as a home stager at a rate of $24-$30 per hour. While that might sound like a lot if you´re used to earning minimum wage, it´s actually a very low salary for a home stager.

Many expert home stagers earn more during a two-hour consultation than a lot of people earn for a full week´s work. Earning a six-figure income as a home stager within two years is entirely possible if you are committed to building your business and you don´t approach it as a hobby.

The knowledge and expertise of a home stager is extremely valuable to a home seller, and billable rates reflect that even in an economic recession. Take the case of Staging Diva Graduate Elizabeth Englehart of Ohio-based Moving Designs. Her first staging project was worth $8,000 to stage a vacant home that had been on the market for two years.

Home stagers can earn between $250 and $800 for an initial consultation, if they know how to properly market their services.

Many home sellers will hire a stager just for their advice and then do the rest of the work themselves. If the stager is charging properly for their consultations, it´s possible to earn at least $1,000 a week just doing these short appointments. And it´s quick money because the stager gets paid as soon as the service is delivered. Every day is "pay day" when you work this way!

After an initial consultation, a home stager can make at least $1,000 more if the client wants help implementing the stager´s recommendations. This number can climb to $5,000 or $10,000 depending on the needs for that property, as well as the stager´s level of expertise and the geographic location.