What Is the Typical Salary for a Barber Stylist?
Barbers, who cut and style men's hair and beards and may offer shaving services as well, have annual average salaries similar to those of hairstylists, whose services include cutting, shampooing, coloring and styling hair for either men or women.
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Barbers
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Barbers earned an average, or mean, hourly wage of $13.29 in May 2009, according to a Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) survey, which works out to about $27,650 annually, assuming full-time, year-round employment. Median wages, which equal numbers of barbers earned more than or less than, were $11.61 per hour or $24,160 per year. The best-paid 10 percent made $20.48 or more hourly, which is about $42,610 or higher annually. The lowest-paid tenth of barbers earned $7.90 or less per hour, which is roughly equivalent to $16,430 or less per year.
Hairstylists
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The average wages for a hairstylist in May 2009 were $13.02 hourly or $27,070 per year, while the median amounts were $11.21 per hour or $23,330 per year. The lowest-paid 10 percent of workers in this occupation made $7.68 or less per hour, which is approximately $15,980 or less per year. The highest-paid tenth had incomes of $20.79 or more hourly, which is about $43,250 or more per year.
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Employment Levels
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The number of people employed as hairstylists in May 2009 was 349,210, according to the BLS, while only 10,550 worked as barbers. Nearly all barbers--10,120--were employed in the personal care services industry, with the second-highest industry for employment being psychiatric and substance abuse hospitals, employing just 50 barbers nationwide. Hairstylists were also overwhelmingly employed in the personal care services industry, which provided jobs for 318,600 of them, while department stores employed 14,510.
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