Is esthetician a great career choice? (employees, extension, work, wages)

[sunshine150]

For those who don't know, estheticians (skin care therapists) work in salons, spas and resorts, doing facials, waxing and other skin treatments.

Would you consider it to be a great career choice? Is there a lot of money to be made in this field. I'm a young woman in my 20s

[Sockeye66]

I can only speak as a someone who separately dated both an esthetician and massage therapist.

No.

The esthetician owned her own salon, she did OK but her employees were low paid and little benefits. The massage therapist billed by the hour and no one is doing 8 billable hours a day or 40 a week. It's a physically tough job.

[Cubicle Dweller]

Perhaps if you find the right niche. I know someone who went to esthetician school with the intention of working at a dermatologist office, but she wound up in the eyelash extension business. She works for a very high-end shop and does celebrities This woman has the stable hands of a surgeon - the work requires a lot of precision and can be draining and because of that she doesn’t want to stay in the field forever. She makes over $100k but no benefits. Like many things in life YMMV if you go that route.

[convextech]

Originally Posted by sunshine150

For those who don't know, estheticians (skin care therapists) work in salons, spas and resorts, doing facials, waxing and other skin treatments.

Would you consider it to be a great career choice? Is there a lot of money to be made in this field. I'm a young woman in my 20s

You're not going to make a ton of money at it unless you are somewhere like LA where women get that kind of stuff done all the time, and you are really good at it and have regular customers who also spread the word.

[Sockeye66]

From the Bureau of Labor and Statistics- 2016 wages.
https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes395094.htm