Employment Percentage: 
17.476828012358
SOC ID: 
39-5012
SOC Title: 
Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists
ONET ID: 
39-5012.00
ONET Concat ID: 
39501200
Median Salary: 
30908.54
Ed Level High School: 
20.93
Ed Level Certificate: 
78.970001
Ed Level Some College: 
0.1
Ed Level Associates: 
0
Ed Level Bachelors: 
0
Ed Level Masters: 
0
Ed Level Doctor: 
0
Typical Ed Level: 
a certificate
Description: 

Provide beauty services, such as shampooing, cutting, coloring, and styling hair, and massaging and treating scalp. May apply makeup, dress wigs, perform hair removal, and provide nail and skin care services.

Core Tasks: 

<ul><li>Keep work stations clean and sanitize tools, such as scissors and combs.</li><li>Bleach, dye, or tint hair, using applicator or brush.</li><li>Cut, trim and shape hair or hairpieces, based on customers' instructions, hair type, and facial features, using clippers, scissors, trimmers and razors.</li><li>Schedule client appointments.</li><li>Update and maintain customer information records, such as beauty services provided.</li><li>Demonstrate and sell hair care products and cosmetics.</li><li>Analyze patrons' hair and other physical features to determine and recommend beauty treatment or suggest hair styles.</li><li>Shampoo, rinse, condition, and dry hair and scalp or hairpieces with water, liquid soap, or other solutions.</li><li>Operate cash registers to receive payments from patrons.</li><li>Order, display, and maintain supplies.</li><li>Comb, brush, and spray hair or wigs to set style.</li><li>Develop new styles and techniques.</li><li>Apply water or setting, straightening or waving solutions to hair, and use curlers, rollers, hot combs and curling irons to press and curl hair.</li><li>Shape eyebrows and remove facial hair, using depilatory cream, tweezers, electrolysis or wax.</li><li>Shave, trim, and shape beards and moustaches.</li></ul>

Start Annual Earnings: 
15947.71
Top Annual Earnings: 
66573.79
Title Slug: 
hairdresser-hairstylist-or-cosmetologist