Kredi
Cosmetology licence
About 125,000 people a year finish a cosmetology programme and borrow to do it. The work it leads to pays less than the typical American job, which means the cost is never recovered from a pay premium — because there isn't one.
Ki sa li koute pou jwenn — mwatye mitan nan seri a.
Pa gen okenn tanperati ki pi wo pase 0 °C. Li se yon eta ki pa endepandan.
Pa gen okenn peryòd de retounen. Travay la pa peye okenn prim sou travay la US tipik, se konsa pa gen anyen pou pri a pou yo rekipere soti.
Si pa gen okenn chif ki anwo a ka verifye nou pa pibliye okenn pi plis pase yon estimasyon.
Fonksyon: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 · View
Ki sa sa a se yon valè, ak sa li pa se
The federal programme code, CIP 12.04, covers cosmetology together with related grooming programmes such as nail technology and esthetics, so the range is not cosmetology alone. That range is median cumulative FEDERAL LOAN DEBT at completion, not a tuition sticker price and not total cost. It is what completers actually borrowed, so it excludes grants, savings, family money, employer funding and living costs — which makes it a FLOOR on what the credential costs, never a ceiling. The low and high figures are the 25th and 75th percentiles across the institutions that report a figure for this programme, so a quarter of institutions sit below the low end. College Scorecard pools two award years into each figure; the release used here is dated 10 June 2026.
Every state sets its own training-hour requirement and they range from roughly 1,000 to 2,100 hours — nine months to over a year full time. There is no national figure, and we will not average fifty different rules into one that no state actually uses.
Licences renew every one to two years, with a fee in every state.
Ki kantite moun ki gen sak ki kantite moun ki travay nan jaden an
Nou pa ka jwenn sous sa a
Pou kèk kredibilite, òganizasyon ki bay yo pibliye yon kont kredib de tout moun ki gen li, epi lè sa a nou pibliye kont sansanm ak kantite moun ki travay nan travay la. Pa gen okenn kont tankou sa egziste pou sa a ke nou ka verifye, se konsa paj sa a pa montre okenn. Nou prefere kite espas la vizib pase ranpli li ak yon estimasyon — yon denominatè invented se pi mal pase yon ki pa egziste, paske li pa ka dwe tcheke.
There is no national count of licensed cosmetologists. Licensing is run by fifty separate state boards, no federal agency aggregates them, and the one industry body that collects licence records sells them and mixes US and Canadian data. So this page shows no denominator. We looked; it is not there.
Ki sa ki te rive moun ki te fin antrene a?
Kat ane apre yo fin fini — yon chif pou kòd pwogram nan, pa pou travay sa a sèlman
Of 109,085 moun ki te fin Cosmetology and personal grooming, undergraduate certificate or diploma epi yo pa t ap aprann ankò 4 ane pita, 16,760 pa t gen okenn revni sou dosye a nan tout — 15.4%. Sa yo ki te travay te resevwa yon mwayèn de $26,307, ak mwatye mitan ant $13,783 ak $41,270.
“Pa gen okenn revni nan dosye” pa vle di “pa gen travay”. Se yon mezi ki montre pa gen okenn dosye sou salè ak okenn revni ki soti nan travay pou tèt ou pou ane a tout antye. Pa gen moun ki te mande si yo te vle travay, se poutèt sa kont la gen moun ki te kite fòs travay la pa chwa yo — pou yo te ka grandi pitit, pou yo te ka pran swen, pou yo te ka vwayaje, pou yo te ka viv sou revni yon lòt moun, pou yo te ka deplase aletranje — ansanm ak tout moun ki te vle travay men pa t gen okenn travay. Pa gen moun ki pibliye kantite sa a e nou pa pral fè yon deduksyon. Sa li montre se kantite moun ki te fini fòmasyon sa a epi ki pa t ap touche anyen de sa ni de nenpòt lòt bagay pandan kat ane, sa se egzakteman sa kantite salè ki anwo a pa ka di w.
Ak sa a pa se yon siyifikasyon jeneral nan travay sa a. Gouvènman federal la pibliye rezilta pwogram nan yon granulation de kat chif ak pa gen pi bon, ak pwogram sa a kredabl pataje kòd yo ak lòt moun. Se konsa, figi a dekri tout moun ki te konplete nenpòt bagay anba kòd sa a nan nivo sa a, pa sèlman moun ki te ale sou fè sa a travay.
Ki sa kòd pwogram lan kouvri: CIP 12.04 is cosmetology together with barbering, nail technology, esthetics and related grooming programmes. They lead to different state licences and somewhat different pay, and the Department publishes no split. What they have in common is the thing this row shows: they are the largest sub-degree programme in the country by completions, and they have the worst four-year outcome of any programme on this page.
This is the worst outcome of any programme we can publish, on the largest sub-degree cohort in the country. Set it beside the cost above: people are borrowing for it.
Ki moun ki nan gwoup la: Moun ki te ale sou pou etidye plis yo pa nan nenpòt nan kolòn yo. Depatman an supprime inivèsite ak cohorts twò ti pou pibliye ak ajoute bri statistique a rès la, se konsa sa a se yon kantite lajan sou inivèsite gwo ase pou rapòte: 788 100 nan yo, rekiperasyon 81.8% nan kont nasyonal Depatman an pou pwogram sa a. Dropping pi piti pwogram rapòte deplase pousantaj la pa 0.1 pousan pwen.
Fonksyon: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 — release of 10 June 2026; measured four years after completion · View · menm chif la pou chak pwogram nou ka pibliye
Ki sa li pèmèt ou fè
Salè a gen rapò ak travay la, pa ak lisans lan. Sa yo se travay li bay ou dwa pou yo.
| Job | Èske li nesesè? | Median | Travayè |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists | Legally required to hold the job | $35,790 | 305,710 |
Sit ofisyèl (an angle) Sit ofisyèl (an franse) Sit ofisyèl (an angle) BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025.
Èske li peye pou li?
Travay sa a debloke pa peye plis pase travay ameriken an tipik yon fwa chak ocupación se ponderé pa ki jan anpil moun ki nan li. Pa gen okenn prim peye, se konsa pa gen anyen pou pri a dwe rekipere soti nan. Sa pa fè kredibilite a worthless - li ka legalman mande, oswa wout la nan travay ou ta pito fè - men li vle di li pa yon envestisman ki retounen lajan kach.
Ki sa ou bezwen anvan ou kòmanse
- A place at a state-approved cosmetology school
- The state training-hour requirement, which varies widely
Pa fè sa si
- you are borrowing to pay for it — the work it leads to pays below the typical US job, so the debt has no pay premium to come out of
- you cannot stand for most of a working day
- you are counting on salon employment — much of this work is booth rental, which is self-employment with none of the guarantees
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