The Average Hairdresser Earns Approximately $31,000 a Year. What Does It Take to Earn Six Figures?
According to a 2026 Salary.com estimate, the average American hairdresser earns approximately $31,000 annually.
Yet some successful hair stylists build six-figure careers behind the chair.
What's the difference?
It's not necessarily their ability to cut, color, or style hair. It's their ability to attract clients, build lasting relationships, and develop a profitable business behind the chair.
And those are skills that many cosmetology schools simply don't teach.
Make a Six Figure Income Doing Hair: How To Do It, Really was written for motivated hair stylists who want to build a loyal clientele, fill their appointment books, and dramatically increase their earning potential—but don't have an experienced mentor showing them how.
Think of this book as the mentor working in the chair next to you.
Drawing on 25 years of experience in the hair industry, salon owner and educator Alan Daniels shares the practical techniques and business-building strategies he used to train hundreds of hair stylists.
This isn't another book filled with vague motivational advice. It's a detailed, real-world guide to what you should be doing, how to do it, and why it matters.
Inside, you'll discover how to:
Build a loyal clientele from the ground up, even when you're just starting your career.
Turn first-time guests into repeat clients through professional consultations and exceptional service.
Increase your income through additional services, retail recommendations, and smarter appointment scheduling.
Master prebooking to help keep your appointment book consistently filled.
Set yourself apart from other hair stylists and give clients reasons to choose you.
Understand commission versus booth rental and make better decisions about your earning potential.
Track your business performance so you can identify opportunities for growth.
Develop the habits of successful hair stylists and build a more profitable career.
You'll also learn practical approaches to client referrals, professional image, networking, promotions, client retention, and much more.
Here's what most hair stylists eventually discover: Being great at doing hair and being great at making money doing hair are two very different skills.
Alan Daniels learned that distinction through years of salon ownership, training, and hands-on experience. Now he's sharing those lessons with you.
Whether you're still in cosmetology school, recently licensed, or already working behind the chair but struggling to build your clientele, this book can help you develop the business skills that technical training alone may not provide.
You don't have to figure everything out on your own.
Start building the clientele, confidence, and career you've been working toward.
Get your copy of Make a Six Figure Income Doing Hair today.
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Alan Daniels was born in Los Angeles California. He openend the first of 4 salons at the age of 23. Alan competed in numerous hair competitions, received training certifications from Redken and Vidal Sassoon advanced academies, and was a member of the United States artistic Team for Lanza International teaching advanced haircutting techniques at national trade shows. Alan Daniels has a beautiful wife and two children.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. If you are a hairdresser who is currently in or entering the hair industry or know someone who is, then you need this book. The vast number of working hairdressers make less than $30,000 a year. Without an experienced mentor teaching a stylist what to do, it is very difficult to beat the odds and earn over $100,000 a year in income in the beauty business. This book is that mentor! Learn exactly what to do and when to do it as it relates to building and maintaining a large and lucrative clientele base. In short, this book will teach you in detail how to make a lot of money in the hair industry while the vast majority of hairstylists do not. Here is a chapter list- Is this the industry for me? * Internship-Where should I work? * The critical consultation * Commission or rental * Fashion shows * The bi-yearly builder * Competition * Hair care maintenance and retail product sales * Up selling services * The killer shampoo * The power of humor * The chameleon effect * The 100% total satisfaction guarantee * The image game * Station location * Pre-Booking appointments * Tracking your business * Double Booking * Professionalism * The assistant advantage * Department store promotions * Professional distance * Lunch is for whimps * Complete make-over demonstrations * Free services * Business cards * Before and after * The barter system * Scouting for models * Promotions with church groups * Networking in the salon * Clientele date base * Your receptionist * Accounting for success * Do I open my own salon? * Exit plan. This book will teach you how to: * Start, grow, and maintain, a large and lucrative hair clientele* Seperate yourself from the crowd in the hair business* Create a financially independent lifestyle for yourself in the hair industry* Make a lot of money working in a hair salon* Make the hair industry work for you* Finally be successful as a hair stylistYou will learn how successful people in the hair industry have achieved that status and how you can do it too. Most importantly, you will learn that making a lot of money in the hair industry has suprisingly little to do with physically doing hair.All of this will be taught from the perspective of a normal guy from Los Angeles California who was lucky enough to be put under the wing of a brilliant man, not through some corporate perspective. Alan Daniels has trained hundreds stylists over the years and many of them have gone on to make over $100,000 incomes. You can do it too! This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781466286504
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