Teacher pay is not only a calculation. It is a trust relationship. When a teacher cannot see why something was paid, skipped, adjusted, or shared, the studio has to rebuild confidence through messages and memory. That is hard on everyone, especially when the studio is growing.
Sangha is designed to make teacher economics more transparent. Classes, workshops, role benefits, substitutions, policies, and access decisions can be connected to the pay story. A paystub should explain what happened, not just present a number.
This is especially important in studios with mixed models. A class might include paid drop-ins, members, work-study students, teacher access, and dana participation. A workshop may have role-based savings or revenue-share rules. If the software cannot distinguish those pathways, teacher pay becomes harder to explain.
Transparent economics also support better conversations before there is a problem. Owners can design policies with a clearer understanding of how they affect teachers. Teachers can understand how their offerings perform and how studio rules apply. The system becomes a shared reference point.
The goal is not to reduce teaching to metrics. It is to remove avoidable opacity from the business side of teaching. When the numbers are clear and the policy path is visible, the studio can spend less energy defending the system and more energy supporting the people who teach.
