How much will it cost to open a barbershop?

Answer 1

Start small and expect your first year to be slow (until you've established clientele). 6 stations should be fine (in Chicago 1 shampoo bowl is required for every 3 stations, you could try 4 stations 1 shampoo but check regulations for your city/state). If you're handy you would come out cheaper building your own stations ( I found 6 kitchen cabinets on Craigslist for 20 bucks each, 2 12ft countertops for 35 bucks each drilled 3 cabinets to each countertop spaced at 4ft apart and WAAPOW!!! 6 stations for under 200 bucks just ask grams where she purchased the wall mirror in the bedroom,, nasty) Advertising means alot so figure out if you wanna spend a couple hundred dollars on fancy flyers that may just and up on the sidewalk or the floor of your cities transit or if you wanna pay a couple of neighborhood preteens 15 bucks to post up a few hundred paper printed flyers you had made at Kinko's. (These may also end up in the city's dumpster a half a block over so be sure to use lil bro and tip well). Finally location. This is absolutely the most important part of establishing a successful barbershop. You can have the most skillful barbers working your shop but if your shop is located in the middle of the Sahara desert then what does it matter. Be sure to find a street where foot traffic is as high a motorists movement. Parking should be somewhat available either on or off street. The neighborhood you choose should fit the style of the shop. I mean don't set up downtown next to wall street and have big homie Ray Ray trying to solicit cuts with his black power boxers exposed to the world. That's cool if that's your thing but we're talking about making money now. Its a business so look the part, be professional. Try not to setup within a few blocks of other shop unless you think you're just that spectacular and definitely don't setup within a couple miles of a barber school. (cockyness set aside, I had been cutting 10+ yrs before going to school for license (I'm only 26) so please don't think you can't get a 25 dollar haircut for 8 bucks at a school). Anyway to actually answer the question I figure 10,000 dollars to start up in the Midwest area but it would definitely very. You figure east coast to down south would definitely differ based off the cost of living. Whatever you do be sure to research before jumping head in. Also remember that we have a profession that isn't easily taxed by the government, damn there impossible to guess with accuracy, so its important that you do it all by the book because the government is definitely looking for those reasons to make you pay. For real.