posted on: 07/09/2024
The West Virginia Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists (Board) issued proposed rules that impact professional and business licensing fees.
Want to add your two cents? To support, oppose, or make suggestions to the proposed rules, we invite you to email the Board at danielle.j.cordle@wv.gov before July 31. AHP lists the proposed and current fees for you below.
- First issuance or license fee: $45 (currently $35)
- License reciprocity fee: $45 (currently $35)
- License renewal late fee: $45 (currently $35)
- Booth or chair rental registration fee: $20 (currently $15)
- Booth or chair rental annual renewal fee: $20 (currently $15)
- Booth or chair rental renewal late fee: $20 (currently $15)
- Cosmetology, barber, nail technology, or aesthetic salon initial license fee: $55 (currently $40)
- Cosmetology, barber, nail technology, or aesthetic salon annual renewal fee: $55 (currently $40)
- Salon license late renewal fee: $55 (currently $40)
- Waxing specialist initial certification fee: $45 (currently $35)
- Waxing specialist annual certification renewal fee: $45 (currently $35)
- Waxing specialist late certification renewal fee: $45 (currently $35)
The proposed rules remove the following fees:
- Continuing education (CE) annual certificate fee for approved CE providers
- Online sanitation and law continuing education fee for licensees who take the Board’s online CE course in these subjects
- Shampoo assistant initial permit, annual renewal, and late renewal fees