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To learn more about a career in beauty check out the Cosmetology Career Packet.
What can you do with a career in beauty? Read these three success stories to see the amazing career opportunities in the beauty industry.
The Naked Monkey
Head Rush Salon
Secound to Nature Women's Boutique
National average salary (NOT including tips):
Cosmetologist - $38,843
Hair Colorist - $46,402
Massage therapist - $33,738
Nail Technician - $33,148
Skin Care/Esthetician - $40,126
(includes average of full time, part time and low time salaries for professionals at specialized salons)
Financial Aid and Alternative Funding:
The demand for cosmetologists:
In January 2007, there were 1,682,641 professionals employed in the nation’s 370,215 beauty salons, barber shops, skin care salons and nail salons. The typical salon is a small full service salon with 5 stations, 3 full-time professionals and 2 part-time professionals. Salon owners report an average of 127 clients per week.
The salon industry is a job-seekers market. "Salon owners reported 484,660 job openings were filled during 2006. This represents an average of 1.3 openings per salon. Nearly 40 percent of all new positions were filled by inexperienced workers."
"Even with significant levels of hiring, nearly three-quarters of the salons that tried to fill positions were not able to find qualified applicants. The supply of skilled professionals in the industry continues to fall short of the demand. This is a chronic shortage that has been reported in earlier surveys of the cosmetology industry."
"The cosmetology industry employs individuals in every town and city in the country. No community exists without barbershops and hair salons. They range from single chair operations to large salons with dozens of workstations."
"The universe probably underestimates employment in the industry. Unincorporated individuals who may work out of their home are not included, nor are organizations that might provide personal care services, but are in a business that is unrelated to the personal care industry. Examples include department stores, cruise ships or resorts, and retirement communities."
"The salon industry employs nearly 1.7 million professionals, over half of whom are fulltime experienced employees who work as cosmetologists. While these professionals tend to move around within the industry, there were more vacated positions in 2006 than well-prepared entrants to fill the positions. A sizeable number of employees (27 percent) leave each year with plans to open their own salon, work from their home, or rent a booth and become independent contractors. This suggests that the industry provides the option to start one’s own business."
"Of the various specialties, the increasing demand for nail technicians appears to be most substantial. While nail technicians currently make up only 9.7 percent of the current industry employees, nearly 18 percent of the job openings are in that area."
"The data lead us to believe that growth in the industry is constrained by too few new entrants to the profession. Demand for cosmetology services is estimated to expand at least at the same rate as the growth of the population."
Other key findings:
• 56% of salon employees work full-time, 31% part-time (20-35 hours) and 13% work less than 20 hours.
• The average salary, NOT including tips, is about $30,000 to $48,000 per year.
Statistics and quotes from the NACCAS 2007 Job Demand Survey.
The 30 Best Careers for 2009: U.S. News's annual list of 30 Best Careers gets updated for a rapidly changing economy.
US News & World Report By Liz Wolgemuth
12/11/2008
A Career in Beauty Will Always Be in Business: Teens and College-Aged Students Should Look at Other Career Opportunities
PR-inside.com by Carrie Parsons
4/30/2008
It's not too early to start thinking about what to do after high school graduation. Some of the 30 fastest-growing jobs for 2008 are in service positions.According to the United States Department of Labor, employment of hairdressers, hairstylists, cosmetologists, skin care specialists, and shampooers is projected to grow 10 to 20 percent through the year 2010. [full story]
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Take Control: Where Are the Hot Jobs? Find Out Which Job Sectors Continue Growing in This Slowing Economy
ABC News: Good Morning America by Tory Johnson
3/10/2008
Even on the heels of the dismal job numbers, I've spent the last three weeks on the road putting on career fairs across the country and I've seen firsthand as dozens of employers in all fields -- from aerospace to retail -- are hiring...COSMETOLOGY: INDUSTRY WANTS MORE PROFESSIONALS. Beauty is big business. Specialty salons are opening everywhere -- from malls to Main Street. There are 1.7 million professional salon employees, which outnumber the 1.1 million lawyers in America. And the industry says it now needs more new professionals than it can supply. [full story]
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Students Find Bountiful Career Opportunities in Cosmetology: More young men and women drawn by growing demand
TheHighSchoolGraduate.com
January 2008
In the past, students may have overlooked or underestimated the opportunities that a career in cosmetology could offer, but that’s not the case anymore. Today’s high school and college-age students are discovering cosmetology to not only be a good career choice, but financially rewarding as well. [full article]
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Best Careers for a Changing Job Landscape
U.S. News & World Report, By Marty Nemko
12/19/2007
It has only been a year since U.S. News published Best Careers 2007, yet much has changed. As a result, we've dropped five of the 25 profiled careers and added 11 new ones...The four noncollege careers we added would be rewarding even to many college graduates, especially because college grads are likely to stand out against the competition. Those added careers are: biomedical equipment technician, firefighter, hairstylist/cosmetologist, and locksmith/security system technician. [full article] [Hairstylist/Cosmetologist: Executive Summary]
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What Cosmetologists Can Teach Wall Street
Deal Journal, posted by Dennis Berman
4/19/2007
Deal Journal admits to less-than-admirable motives behind its efforts to contact Franklin K. Schoeneman, a third-generation cosmetology educator, who recently struck a big merger deal to combine the 51 beauty schools of his Empire Education Group with the 37 schools owned by publicly traded Regis Corp. [full article]
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This stylist’s business is hair, not hairy
Standard-Journal, by Pam Dailey
3/1/2008
Most 19-year-olds don’t even own a car, so a business is out of the question. Or is it? Christina Herkel of Laurelton didn’t think she’d be opening her own salon a year out of cosmetology school, but when a friend spotted the for rent sign in a small building along Rear Chestnut Street in Mifflinburg, Herkel “just decided to go for it.” [full story]
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After 50 years, salon owner still enjoys his work
The Tribune-Democrat, by Kelly Urban
1/4/2008
“I thought I was too smart for school,” Verrone said. “My mother was not too happy and told me I better be doing something.” That something was enrolling in the former Mason & Felix Cosmetology School in Johnstown. [full article]
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Accrediting Agency Links
- Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges of Technology (ACCSCT)
- Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS)
- Council on Occupational Education (COE)
- National Accrediting Commission of Cosmetology Arts & Sciences (NACCAS)
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Connecting Career Image and Reality—Cosmetology Gets a Makeover
Techniques Connecting Education and Careers
April 2009
Chances are better than average that if you asked someone in a crowd to describe the study of cosmetology, their definition would not include physiology, chemistry and other science terminology. Students earning a cosmetology license today must complete a curriculum that includes a solid core of anatomy, physiology, chemistry and even electricity. [full article]
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Some Debt-Laden Graduates Wonder Why They Bothered With College
abc NEWS 20/20 by John Stossel, Miguel Sancho, Andrew G. Sullivan and Andrew Kirell
1-16-2009
It's the American way to try to make as much money as possible. And it's said that the way to earn more is to get the best education you can afford. But in today's economy, where so many overqualified people are competing for fewer jobs, the promise of a big payoff from a college diploma can be misleading. [full article & video] [video only]
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The Great College Hoax
Forbes Magazine by Kathy Kristof
1/2/2009
Higher education can be a financial disaster. Especially with the return on degrees down and student loan sharks on the prowl. As steadily as ivy creeps up the walls of its well-groomed campuses, the education industrial complex has cultivated the image of college as a sure-fire path to a life of social and economic privilege. [online article]
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If you've recently been laid off, you've probably had someone tap you on the shoulder and tell you something like: "Out of crisis comes opportunity," or "When one door closes, another opens." It probably feels a little pat, but the truth is that many workers will use the downturn to switch out of a slow-growth career—and into work with a much more promising future...Did you know that hair stylists rank among the most satisfied with their jobs? (No need to fear that your work will be outsourced, either.) [full article]
Best Careers 2009: Hairstylist/Cosmetologist By Marty Nemko [full article]
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