1,258 barbershops, hair salons, barbers, and licensed schools across California, with intelligence not available on Google.
Schools average a 58 2026 score
4 cities with enough real, verified businesses for their own directory — the rest link straight to the search engine until they do.
San Jose
48 businesses (28 shops, 20 salons)
San Francisco
44 businesses (26 shops, 18 salons)
San Bernardino
39 businesses (28 shops, 11 salons)
Los Angeles
34 businesses (18 shops, 16 salons)
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Everything we've documented from the California Board of Barbering & Cosmetology — the Act, the board's 2026 report to the Legislature, and its letter to approved schools — sourced, dated, and separated by licence because the requirements genuinely differ.
Six licences from 400 to 1,000 hours — including two, hairstylist and electrologist, that most states do not issue at all — plus the paid route that skips tuition.
Written only — California dropped the practical for every licence type in 2022. PSI rewrote all five content outlines on 1 April 2026, and the comparison is published nowhere else.
$50 every two years for every licence type, $25 late — and no continuing education at all.
The board collects no earnings data. What it collects is hours — and that is what every published salary figure assumes.