Whakawhiwhinga
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.
Ko te utu hei whiwhi — te haurua o te awhe.
Kāore he roa o te whakaakoranga kotahi - ka whakaritea e te āhua.
Kāore he wā whakawhiwhinga. Kāore te mahi e utu ana i te utu i runga ake i te mahi pūnoa o Amerika, nō reira kāore he utu e whiwhi ana i te utu.
Ki te kore e taea te whakamātautau i te whika i runga ake nei, kāore e whakaputaina e tātau he whakaaro, engari he whakataunga.
Ka taea te whakataki te pūtake: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 · kitenga
He aha taua taupū utu, he aha kāore i te mea.
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.
He tokomaha nga tāngata e pupuri ana i tēnei, he tokomaha hoki e mahi ana i roto i te āpure.
Kāore i taea e tātau te pūtake o tēnei
Mō ētahi tohu, ka whakaputaina e te tinana whakawhiwhinga he tatau tūturu o ia tangata e pupuri ana i a ia, ā, i reira ka whakaputaina e tātau taua tatau i te taha o te tau o ngā tāngata e mahi ana i roto i te mahi. Kāore he tatau pērā mō tēnei ka taea e tātau te whakamātautau, nō reira kāore e whakaatu ana tēnei pātaka i tētahi. E noho ana mātou te mokowā mārama i te whakawātea i te whakawāteatanga i te whakawāteatanga — he kino ake te whakawāteatanga i te kore, nā te mea kāore e taea te manatoko.
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.
He aha te take o nga tāngata i oti te whakaakoranga?
E whā tau i muri i te oti — he whika mō te waehere papatono, ehara i te mea mō tēnei mahi anake.
Ko te mea 109,085 ngā tāngata i oti Cosmetology and personal grooming, undergraduate certificate or diploma Kāore anō rātau kia ako i te whā tau i muri mai, 16,760 Kāore i whiwhi i te moni i runga i te pūkete — 15.4%. Ko ērā i mahi i whiwhi i tētahi tauwaenga o te 100. $26,307, me te haurua o waenganui i waenganui $13,783 me $41,270.
Kāore he "whakahaere i te pūkete" e kore ana e "kore mahi". Ko te inenga ko te korenga o tētahi pūkete utu me tētahi moni whiwhinga tōrunga mō te tau katoa. Kāore i pātaihia e tētahi mēnā e hiahiatia ana e rātou te mahi, nō reira ka pupuri te tatau i ngā tāngata i mahue te kaha mahi i te kōwhiringa - te whakawhanake i ngā tamariki, te tiaki, te haere, te noho i runga i te moni whiwhinga o tētahi atu tangata, te neke atu ki waho - i te taha o ia e hiahia ana ki tētahi mahi ā, kāore i te whai. Kāore e whakaputaina e tētahi te wehenga, ā, kāore e whakaaro ana tātau. Ko te mea e whakatau ana he maha ngā tāngata i oti tēnei whakaakoranga, ā, kāore i whiwhi i tētahi atu mea mai i a ia, mai i ētahi atu mea rānei i te whā tau, ko te mea e kore e taea e te tau o te utu ki runga te kī ki a koe.
Kāore tēnei whika i te hāngai ki tēnei mahi. Ka whakaputaina e te kāwanatanga ā iwi ngā hua o te papatono i te mārō-whā-mati, ā, kāore i te tino pai ake, ā, ka tiritiri ngā papatono o tēnei tohu i tō rātou waehere ki ētahi atu, nō reira ka whakaahuatia e te whika ngā tangata katoa i oti i tētahi mea i raro i taua waehere i tēnei taumata, ehara i te tangata anake i haere ki te mahi i tēnei mahi.
Ko te mea e tautuhi ana te waehere papatono: 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.
Ko wai i roto i te kohoro: Ko te nuinga o nga kaiako i whiwhi i te āwhina ā-iwi o te ākonga - tata ki te haurua o nga ākonga US, ā, kāore i te ine i tēnei wāhi. Ko ngā tāngata i haere ki te akoranga ā-whāiti, kāore i roto i te tīwae kotahi. Ko te Tari e whakakore ana i ngā whare wānanga me ngā rōpū iti rawa hei whakaputa, ā, ka tāpiri i te pōhēhētanga tatauranga ki te toenga, nō reira ko tēnei he taumaha i runga i ngā whare wānanga nui rawa ki te pūrongo: 788 o rātau, e whakaora ana 81.8% Ko te tatau ā-motu o te Tari mō tēnei papatono. Ka neke te mokatere o te whakawāteatanga o ngā papatono pūrongo iti rawa 0.1 Ko ngā pūwāhi ōrautanga.
Ka taea te whakataki te pūtake: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 — release of 10 June 2026; measured four years after completion · kitenga · te taurite ōrite mō ia papatono ka taea e tātau te whakaputa
Ko te mea e whakaae ana ia kia mahia e koe
Ko te utu e pā ana ki te mahi, ehara i te tohu. Ko ēnei ngā mahi e whakaaetia ana e ia.
| He mahi | E hiahiatia ana? | Median | Ka mahi |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists | Legally required to hold the job | $35,790 | 305,710 |
Ko te utu me te mahi pāpāho: BLS Kaimahi me ngā Tatauranga Uara, Mei 2025.
E utu ana rātau mō rātau anō?
Ko te mahi e whakawāteatia ana e tēnei kāore e utu nui ake i te mahi pūnoa o U.S. i te wā e taumaha ana ia mahi e te maha o ngā tāngata i roto i te. Kāore he utu utu, nō reira kāore he moni mō te utu e whakaora ana. Kāore e whakawātea i te tohu - tērā pea e hiahiatia ana i te ture, te huarahi ki te mahi rānei e hiahiatia ana e koe - engari ko te tikanga kāore he pūtea e hoki ana i te moni.
Ko te mea e hiahiatia ana e koe i mua i te tīmatanga
- A place at a state-approved cosmetology school
- The state training-hour requirement, which varies widely
Kāore i te mahi tēnei mēnā
- 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
Ko ngā tohu katoa, e te wā whakawhiwhinga · He pēhea te tatau i tēnei · Ka rapu i tētahi atu mea