How many hours does a hairstylist work?

A hairstylist works for varying amounts of hours, and this depends on many different factors, such as work environment, personal preferences, the type of massage therapy they provide, and whether a massage therapist is full-time or part-time. Here is a closer look at some of these factors:

• Work environment

Hairstylists that work in-house at places like salons, hair-cutting studios, cosmetology schools, and other similar businesses can have work schedules that reflect traditional working hours. They might work up to 40 hours per week, and put in shifts of six to eight hours per day, depending on the specific location they work in.

• Personal preferences

There are independent contractor hairstylists or freelance hairstylists that can dictate their own schedule to a degree. These professionals often travel to their clients or have their clients travel to their homes or another agreed-upon location.

Here hairstylists can choose the number of hours they work per week to a degree since it is based on their client load.

• The type of hair services they provide

Some hairstylists provide general haircutting services, while others specialize in certain areas of the field, like coloring. Whether or not a hairstylist specializes in a certain form of cosmetology services can have some effect on their total number of average work hours. This is because some services require longer amounts of time than others.

• Part-time hairstylist

Some hairstylists choose to work on a part-time basis, this type of work schedule might consist of working as little as a few hours per week or several hours per day. Self-employed hairstylists tend to have this type of schedule, as well as some that work in more traditional environments like salons.

• Full-time hairstylists

Full-time hairstylists tend to work a traditional work week of 40 hours. The most common configuration of this type of work schedule is five days per week with shifts that are eight hours long.

This type of work schedule is the most common for hairstylists in salons or beauty schools, because these work environments tend to have a regular roster of clients or students, while other working environments may have fluctuations concerning clientele.

• Variable work schedules

Some hairstylists have variable and flexible work schedules that might see them working a lot of hours on one day and considerably fewer hours on the next day. This is most common with self-employed hairstylists as their work weeks can average in the range of 10 to 30 hours per week.