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Skincare Specialists

SOC 39-5094 · 2024-2034

Provide skincare treatments to face and body to enhance an individual's appearance. Includes electrologists and laser hair removal specialists.

How the U.S. Department of Labor describes this work. Published in English only.

What California expects of this job

Typical pay in California
$39,752per year
Projected openings
23,330
Projected change
+9.9%
Usually needs
Postsecondary non-degree award

Bright Outlook — a U.S. Department of Labor designation
Rapid Growth

The Department's own designation, made from its national projections. It is not this project's assessment and it is not California's: every other figure on this page comes from California's projection, which can point the other way and for some occupations does.

Skills this work uses most

O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, rates how important each of these is to this work, and they are listed in that order, most important first. The ratings themselves are not shown, because the data carries the number without the scale it was measured on. The names are as published, in English.

  1. Speaking
  2. Service Orientation
  3. Active Listening
  4. Monitoring
  5. Critical Thinking
  6. Social Perceptiveness

Pay by region

RegionTypical pay in CaliforniaProjected openings
Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley MD (Alameda and Contra Costa Counties)$51,3391,890
San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City MD (San Francisco and San Mateo Counties)$51,3391,410
North Valley-Northern Mountains Region (Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Plumas, Sierra, Siskiyou, Tehama, and Trinity Counties)$47,215110
Salinas MSA (Monterey County)$46,249200
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara MSA (San Benito and Santa Clara Counties)$42,7831,290
Eastern Sierra-Mother Lode Region (Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Inyo, Mariposa, Mono, and Tuolumne Counties)$40,74650
Napa MSA (Napa County)$39,615220
Santa Rosa-Petaluma MSA (Sonoma County)$39,451380
Vallejo MSA (Solano County)$38,813190
Stockton-Lodi MSA (San Joaquin County)$38,186240
Redding MSA (Shasta County)$38,13480
Chico MSA (Butte County)$37,79590
San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad MSA (San Diego County)$37,6513,300
Santa Maria-Santa Barbara MSA (Santa Barbara County)$37,250200
Modesto MSA (Stanislaus County)$37,157310
San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles MSA (San Luis Obispo County)$36,849130
Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura MSA (Ventura County)$36,736550
Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom MSA (El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo Counties)$36,674940
Visalia MSA (Tulare County)$36,622160
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario MSA (Riverside and San Bernardino Counties)$36,2931,810
Fresno MSA (Fresno and Madera Counties)$34,987540
San Rafael MD (Marin County)Not reported250

What the pay actually ranges across

The lowest-paid tenth earn under
$35,528
A quarter earn under
$37,209
Half earn under
$39,752
Three quarters earn under
$55,481
The highest-paid tenth earn over
$79,114

A median is one point. These are the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics' 2026 figures for California, and they say how far apart the people doing this job actually are. Read them as the spread across everyone already in the work — not as a starting wage and not as a promise about where anyone lands.

Similar work

O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, names these as occupations involving work similar to this one — its own reading of the job, not a grouping by code. They keep O*NET's order, and only those California publishes a projection for are shown.

OccupationTypical pay in CaliforniaProjected openingsProjected change
Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists$39,63968,190+7.3%
Massage Therapists$47,13438,120+20.9%
Surgical Technologists$83,5868,420+11.6%
Manicurists and Pedicurists$37,55865,240+10%
Barbers$39,3526,380+7.1%
Dental Assistants$51,37981,180+10%

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