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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.

$6,334–$10,375

Ohun ti o n san lati gba — aago kejì tí a bá fi pamọ́.

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Kò ní ìgbàdúró kan - a tí fi àwọn ààyè àwọn ààyè pamọ́.

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Kò ní àwọn ìgbà ìṣàfarawé. Àwọn iṣẹ́ kò ní ìgbà ìṣàfarawé nínú iṣẹ́ Áríǹtì Áríǹtì, láti jẹ́ pé kò ní ohunkohun fún àwọn owó tí a fẹ́ gba láti inú wọn.

Níbí tí kò bá jẹ́ pé a kò lè fi àwọn

Àwọn Ìṣàmúlò-ètò: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 · Àwọn ìṣàfihàn

Ohun tí àwọn à

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.

Ìgbà wò nínú àwọn eniyan náà ní yìí, àti ìgbà wò nínú iṣẹ́ nínú ààyè-iṣẹ́ náà

A kò lè fi àwọn ààyè-iṣẹ́ yìí pamọ́

Fún àwọn ìṣàmúlò-ètò kan, àwọn ẹ̀yàn tí a fi pamọ́ ǹpa àwọn

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.

Àwọn ohun tí a tí ìṣẹ̀dá nínú àwọn eniyan tí wọ́n tí ìṣàmúlò-ètò náà

Àwọn odun mẹ́fá láti àkóónú — àwọn àwọn ìṣàmúlò-ètò fún àwọn ìṣàmúlò-ètò, kò ní fún iṣẹ́ yìí

Àwọn àwọn ààyè-iṣẹ́ 109,085 Àwọn eniyan tí wọ́n tí kọ̀ọ̀kan Cosmetology and personal grooming, undergraduate certificate or diploma ati ki o ti ko ti wa ni kọ ẹkọ mẹrin ọdun lẹhin, 16,760 kò ní àwọn owó tí a fi pamọ́ ní gbogbo — 15.4%. Awọn ti o ti wa ni iṣẹ gba median ti $26,307, pẹlú àwọn ààyè-iṣẹ́ àwọn ààyè-iṣẹ́ $13,783 àti $41,270.

“Awọn owo-ori ko si lori iwe-aṣẹ” kii ṣe “awọn ti ko ni iṣẹ”. Ìṣàmúlò-ètò náà nípa àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínú àwọn aagó tí a fi pamọ́ nínu

Atí pé àwọn Àwọn àwọn

Àwọn àwọn ìṣàmúlò-ètò àìṣàmúlò-ètò: 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.

Tí a bá fi àwọn àwọn ààyè-iṣẹ́ pamọ́ fullers ti won gba federal ọmọ ile-iwe ìmọ - nipa idaji ti US undergraduates, ati awọn miiran idaji ti ko ti a ti ayẹwo nibi. Awọn eniyan ti lọ lori si siwaju sii ẹkọ ni ko si ninu eyikeyi column. The Department suppresses institutions with cohorts too small to publish and adds statistical noise to the rest, so this is a sum over the institutions large enough to report: 788 ti wọn, ti n paṣẹ 81.8% ti a ti ṣe fun iṣẹ yii. Tí a bá fi àwọn ìṣàmúlò-ètò ìròyìn tí o kù jù lọ, a á gbé àwọn ìṣàmúlò-ètò náà lọ́wọ́lọ́wọ́ 0.1 Àwọn ìpèwọ̀n àwọn ìtàn.

Àwọn Ìṣàmúlò-ètò: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 — release of 10 June 2026; measured four years after completion · Àwọn ìṣàfihàn · àwọn

Ohun ti o gba ọ lórí

Àwọn owó tí a fi pamọ́ sí iṣẹ́, kò sí àwọn ìṣàmúlò-ètò. Àwọn yìí ní àwọn iṣẹ́ tí o fi pamọ́ sí ọ̀rọ̀ rẹ̀.

Àwọn iṣẹ́	Ṣe o fẹ́?	Àwọn ààyè-iṣẹ́	Àwọn Ìṣàmúlò-ètò
Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists	Legally required to hold the job	$35,790	305,710

Median owo ati iṣẹ: BLS Occupational Employment ati Wage Statistics, May 2025.

Ń bá jẹ́ pé ó ń gbá owó fun ara rẹ́?

Àwọn iṣẹ́ tí a fi ṣí kò gbá jú iṣẹ́ tí a lò nínú United States lọ́wọ́lọ́wọ́ lọ́wọ́lọ́wọ́ nígbà tí gbogbo iṣẹ́ tí a fi gbọ́dọ̀ sí nípa àwọn eniyan tí a tí wa nínú rẹ̀. Kò ní ẹ̀yàn-ìfihàn, bẹ́ẹ̀ kò ní ohunkohun fun àwọn owó tí a tí lè gbà. Kò jẹ́ pé àwọn àmì-àṣírí náà kò ní ìbàrá - o lè jẹ́ àwọn ohun tí a fẹ́ nípa àwọn àwọn ìṣàmúlò-ètò àti àwọn ààyè-iṣẹ́ tí o fẹ́ - ṣugbọn o ní tumọ̀ si pé kò jẹ́ ìpamọ́ tí n pàdé owó.

Ohun ti o fẹ́ ṣaajú tí o bá bẹrẹ

A place at a state-approved cosmetology school
The state training-hour requirement, which varies widely

Kò ṣẹ̀dà yìí látì jẹ́ pé

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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