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Skincare Specialists

SOC 39-5094

Provide facials and skin treatments and recommend care.

The job
Median pay
$45k
$36k to $60k typical range
Outlook, 2025 to 2035
Growing fast
+8.8% projected
Openings a year
14k
BLS projection
Typical education
Postsecondary plus license
Our model
AI displacement risk
Low
How much of this job AI may do instead of the person
Works with AI
25/100
AI alongside the person rather than instead of them
AI exposure
39th pct
More exposed than 39% of occupations · modeled estimate · 27th pct in Microsoft's data
Future-proof
59/100

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Pay and jobs by state

BLS OEWS May 2025, 51 states. Sorted by jobs; per 1,000 is jobs per thousand workers in the state; vs national compares that rate with the country's. A tilde marks a figure estimated from the parent occupation group where BLS publishes none.

StateJobsPer 1,000vs nationalMedian pay
California11,3600.61.3×$39k
Texas6,1600.40.9×$49k
Florida5,2700.51.1×$44k
New York3,5100.40.8×$43k
Illinois2,9600.51.0×$45k
North Carolina2,6800.51.2×$39k
New Jersey2,6600.61.3×$46k
Pennsylvania2,5600.40.9×$44k
Georgia2,2300.51.0×$49k
Washington2,2000.61.3×$79k
All 51 states
StateJobsPer 1,000vs nationalMedian pay
Virginia1,9700.51.0×$39k
Arizona1,7100.51.1×$50k
Tennessee1,7100.51.1×$37k
Ohio1,7000.30.7×$39k
Nevada1,5401.02.1×$39k
Colorado1,5100.51.1×$55k
Michigan1,5100.30.7×$45k
Missouri1,3900.51.0×$45k
Massachusetts1,3600.40.8×$47k
South Carolina1,2100.51.1×$40k
Wisconsin1,1900.40.9×$46k
Utah1,1600.71.4×$45k
Maryland1,1300.40.9×$47k
Indiana1,1200.30.8×$44k
Oregon1,0700.51.2×$52k
Minnesota9200.30.7×$44k
Kentucky8300.40.9×$39k
Idaho7200.81.8×$34k
Iowa7100.51.0×$37k
Oklahoma6800.40.8×$37k
Connecticut6600.40.8×$44k
Louisiana6000.30.7×$37k
Alabama5900.30.6×$39k
Nebraska5500.51.1×$58k
New Hampshire4300.61.3×$47k
Kansas4200.30.6×$46k
New Mexico3700.40.9×$47k
Arkansas3400.30.6×$37k
Mississippi3200.30.6×$41k
Montana2800.51.2×$59k
Maine2600.40.9×$56k
Washington DC2000.30.6×$77k
North Dakota1900.40.9×$58k
Vermont1560.51.1×$49k~
South Dakota1500.30.7×$38k
Hawaii1400.20.5×$51k~
Delaware1300.30.6×$51k
Alaska1200.40.8×$41k
Rhode Island1200.20.5×$44k
Wyoming1000.40.8×$62k
West Virginia800.10.2×$38k

Top metro areas

  1. New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ4,600 jobs · $46k median
  2. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA4,500 jobs · $38k median
  3. Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN2,720 jobs · $45k median
  4. San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA1,920 jobs · $52k median
  5. Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA1,720 jobs · $51k median
  6. Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX1,660 jobs · $48k median
  7. Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX1,620 jobs · $54k median
  8. Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD1,460 jobs · $44k median

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Pay and outlook from BLS (OEWS 2025, Employment Projections 2025-2035). Skills and work activities from O*NET 30.3. AI exposure and future-proof scores are modeled estimates. How these numbers are made.