Manicurists and Pedicurists
Tasks Include:
- Clean and sanitize tools and work environment.
- Schedule client appointments and accept payments.
- Remove previously applied nail polish, using liquid remover and swabs.
- Shape and smooth ends of nails, using scissors, files, or emery boards.
- Apply undercoat and clear or colored polish onto nails with brush.
- Advise clients on nail care and use of products and colors.
- Maintain supply inventories and records of client services.
- Roughen surfaces of fingernails, using abrasive wheel.
- Promote and sell nail care products.
- Polish nails, using powdered polish and buffer.
- Whiten underside of nails with white paste or pencils.
- Decorate clients' nails by piercing or attaching ornaments or designs.
- Prepare nail cuticles with water and oil, using cuticle knives to push back cuticles and scissors or nippers to trim cuticles.
- Prepare customers' nails in soapy water, using swabs, files, and orange sticks.
- Use rotary abrasive wheels to shape and smooth nails or artificial extensions.
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The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™; US Department of Labor (BLS); Virginia Workforce Connection. (Using onet28)
Projections Quick View:
Virginia: +26.5%
National: +22.4%
Education
High School Diploma
Job Zone:
Two: Some Preparation Needed
Income Range:
Mid Range ($28,000 - $35,999)
Median Earnings:
National
$31,130.00
State
$34,620.00
Regional
Manicurists and Pedicurists
Description
Career Cluster: | Human Services |
Clean and shape customers' fingernails and toenails. May polish or decorate nails.
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Education
Required Level of Education
- High School Diploma - or the equivalent (for example, GED) = 49.16%
- Less than a High School Diploma = 35.80%
- Post-Secondary Certificate - awarded for training completed after high school (for example, in agriculture or natural resources, computer services, personal or culinary services, engineering technologies, healthcare, construction trades, mechanic and repair technologies, or precision production) = 14.77%
- Some College Courses = 0.27%
Related Work Experience
- None = 33.90%
- Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months = 27.43%
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months = 18.84%
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years = 16.13%
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year = 3.43%
- Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years = 0.27%
On-Site or In-Plant Training
- Up to and including 1 month = 30.82%
- Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months = 27.96%
- None = 19.30%
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year = 16.01%
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months = 4.71%
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years = 1.20%
On-the-Job Training
- Anything beyond short demonstration, up to and including 1 month = 31.13%
- Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months = 19.26%
- None or short demonstration = 18.99%
- Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years = 13.71%
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year = 11.51%
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months = 5.39%
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Tasks
Core Tasks Include:
- Clean and sanitize tools and work environment.
- Schedule client appointments and accept payments.
- Remove previously applied nail polish, using liquid remover and swabs.
- Shape and smooth ends of nails, using scissors, files, or emery boards.
- Apply undercoat and clear or colored polish onto nails with brush.
- Advise clients on nail care and use of products and colors.
- Maintain supply inventories and records of client services.
- Roughen surfaces of fingernails, using abrasive wheel.
- Promote and sell nail care products.
- Polish nails, using powdered polish and buffer.
- Whiten underside of nails with white paste or pencils.
- Decorate clients' nails by piercing or attaching ornaments or designs.
- Prepare nail cuticles with water and oil, using cuticle knives to push back cuticles and scissors or nippers to trim cuticles.
- Prepare customers' nails in soapy water, using swabs, files, and orange sticks.
- Use rotary abrasive wheels to shape and smooth nails or artificial extensions.
- Assess the condition of clients' hands, remove dead skin, and massage hands.
- Treat nails to repair or improve strength and resilience by wrapping.
- Extend nails using powder, solvent, and paper forms attached to tips of customers' fingers to support and shape artificial nails.
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Special Requirements
http://www.dpor.virginia.gov/Boards/BarberCosmo/
Required Fees:
For More Information, Contact:
Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation – Barbers and Cosmetology
Phone: (80.4) .590
TTY: (80.4) .509
Fax: (86.6) .9693
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[email protected]
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Manicurists and Pedicurists
Knowledge
% | Subject | Description |
---|---|---|
59.25 | Customer and Personal Service | Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. |
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Skills
% | Subject | Description |
---|---|---|
50.00 | Active Listening | Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. |
50.00 | Speaking | Talking to others to convey information effectively. |
50.00 | Social Perceptiveness | Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do. |
50.00 | Service Orientation | Actively looking for ways to help people. |
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Abilities
% | Subject | Description |
---|---|---|
62.50 | Near Vision | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). |
53.00 | Arm-Hand Steadiness | The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position. |
53.00 | Finger Dexterity | The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects. |
50.00 | Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. |
50.00 | Manual Dexterity | The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects. |
50.00 | Speech Recognition | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. |
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Work Activities
% | Subject | Description |
---|---|---|
61.25 | Performing for or Working Directly with the Public | Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests. |
55.00 | Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships | Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time. |
50.25 | Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others | Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others. |
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Work Styles
% | Subject | Description |
---|---|---|
71.00 | Adaptability/Flexibility | Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace. |
69.50 | Attention to Detail | Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks. |
67.75 | Self-Control | Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations. |
66.00 | Stress Tolerance | Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high-stress situations. |
61.25 | Independence | Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done. |
60.50 | Concern for Others | Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job. |
59.25 | Integrity | Job requires being honest and ethical. |
58.75 | Cooperation | Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude. |
55.50 | Dependability | Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations. |
54.75 | Persistence | Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles. |
51.00 | Innovation | Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems. |
50.50 | Achievement/Effort | Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks. |
50.50 | Social Orientation | Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone, and being personally connected with others on the job. |
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Work Values
% | Subject | Description |
---|---|---|
83.33 | Relationships | Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to provide service to others and work with co-workers in a friendly non-competitive environment. Corresponding needs are Co-workers, Moral Values and Social Service. |
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Work Context
% | Subject | Description |
---|---|---|
93.00 | Exposed to Contaminants | How often does this job require working exposed to contaminants (such as pollutants, gases, dust or odors)? |
91.60 | Physical Proximity | To what extent does this job require the worker to perform job tasks in close physical proximity to other people? |
90.80 | Spend Time Making Repetitive Motions | How much does this job require making repetitive motions? |
90.00 | Contact With Others | How much does this job require the worker to be in contact with others (face-to-face, by telephone, or otherwise) in order to perform it? |
83.40 | Indoors, Environmentally Controlled | How often does this job require working indoors in environmentally controlled conditions? |
81.00 | Spend Time Sitting | How much does this job require sitting? |
80.80 | Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls | How much does this job require using your hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools or controls? |
78.00 | Freedom to Make Decisions | How much decision making freedom, without supervision, does the job offer? |
76.80 | Face-to-Face Discussions | How often do you have to have face-to-face discussions with individuals or teams in this job? |
75.60 | Importance of Being Exact or Accurate | How important is being very exact or highly accurate in performing this job? |
71.00 | Responsible for Others' Health and Safety | How much responsibility is there for the health and safety of others in this job? |
69.40 | Work With Work Group or Team | How important is it to work with others in a group or team in this job? |
69.20 | Structured versus Unstructured Work | To what extent is this job structured for the worker, rather than allowing the worker to determine tasks, priorities, and goals? |
69.00 | Wear Common Protective or Safety Equipment such as Safety Shoes, Glasses, Gloves, Hearing Protection, Hard Hats, or Life Jackets | How much does this job require wearing common protective or safety equipment such as safety shoes, glasses, gloves, hard hats or life jackets? |
58.20 | Responsibility for Outcomes and Results | How responsible is the worker for work outcomes and results of other workers? |
58.00 | Telephone | How often do you have telephone conversations in this job? |
57.60 | Coordinate or Lead Others | How important is it to coordinate or lead others in accomplishing work activities in this job? |
51.20 | Level of Competition | To what extent does this job require the worker to compete or to be aware of competitive pressures? |
49.80 | Exposed to Minor Burns, Cuts, Bites, or Stings | How often does this job require exposure to minor burns, cuts, bites, or stings? |
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Job Zone Two: Some Preparation Needed
- Overall Experience
- Some previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is usually needed. For example, a teller would benefit from experience working directly with the public.
- Job Training
- Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few months to one year of working with experienced employees. A recognized apprenticeship program may be associated with these occupations.
- Examples
- These occupations often involve using your knowledge and skills to help others. Examples include orderlies, counter and rental clerks, customer service representatives, security guards, upholsterers, tellers, and dental laboratory technicians.
- Education
- These occupations usually require a high school diploma.
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Earnings Benefits*
Region | Entry Level | Median | Experienced |
---|---|---|---|
United States | $23,330.00 | $31,130.00 | $35,110.00 |
Virginia | $22,880.00 | $34,620.00 | $41,380.00 |
Region | Entry Level | Median | Experienced |
Alexandria/Arlington | $27,696.97 | $38,455.29 | $42,632.99 |
Bay Consortium | $28,170.44 | $38,480.38 | $43,032.26 |
Capital Region Workforce Partnership | $24,736.94 | $31,066.72 | $36,037.73 |
Central VA/Region2000 | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Crater Area | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Greater Peninsula | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Hampton Roads | $26,076.89 | $36,188.24 | $36,805.95 |
New River/Mt. Rogers | $26,645.49 | $35,134.67 | $36,744.29 |
Northern Virginia | $28,718.13 | $38,489.78 | $43,535.00 |
Piedmont Workforce | $25,864.72 | $37,429.94 | $39,792.11 |
Shenandoah Valley | No Data | No Data | No Data |
South Central | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Southwestern Virginia | No Data | No Data | No Data |
West Piedmont | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Western Virginia | $23,956.17 | $32,046.08 | $34,745.85 |
* Earnings Calculations:
Regional Earnings:
Entry = Annual mean of the lower 1/3 wage distribution;
Experienced = Annual mean of the upper 2/3 wage distribution.
National and State Earnings:
Entry = Annual 10th percentile wage;
Experienced = Annual 75th percentile wage.
The data sources for the information displayed here include: US Department of Labor (BLS); Virginia Workforce Connection. (Using onet28)
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Employment Projections
Current | Projected | % Change | |
---|---|---|---|
United States | 163,600 | 200,300 | +22.4% |
Virginia | 3,244 | 4,104 | +26.5% |
Region | Current* | Projected | % Change |
Alexandria/Arlington | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Bay Consortium | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Capital Region Workforce Partnership | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Central VA/Region2000 | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Crater Area | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Greater Peninsula | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Hampton Roads | No Data | No Data | No Data |
New River/Mt. Rogers | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Northern Virginia | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Piedmont Workforce | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Shenandoah Valley | No Data | No Data | No Data |
South Central | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Southwestern Virginia | No Data | No Data | No Data |
West Piedmont | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Western Virginia | No Data | No Data | No Data |
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Proficiency Ratings
These proficiencies are scored on a scale from 1 to 5 with 1 being not
important to the job and 5 being extremely important to the job.
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Titles
- Cosmetologist
- Fingernail Former
- Fingernail Sculptor
- Fingernail Sculpturer
- Fingernail Technician
- Hair Stylist
- Manicurist
- Nail Artist
- Nail Technician
- Pedicurist
- Salon Manager
- Stylist
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Related Schools
- Allegiance Beauty School
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- Asher Institute of Hampton
- Avi Career Training
- Crown Cutz Academy Bristol
- Culpeper Cosmetology Training Center
- Dermal Science International Aesthetics and Nail Academy
- Empire Beauty School-Midlothian
- Empire Beauty School-Newport News
- Empire Beauty School-Richmond
- Empire Beauty School-Virginia Beach
- Jolie Hair Academy
- Kenny's Beauty Academy
- Luckes Beauty Academy LLC
- Paul Mitchell the School-Roanoke
- Paul Mitchell the School-Tysons Corner
- Paul Mitchell the School-Woodbridge
- Rudy & Kelly Academy, A Paul Mitchell Partner School
- Staunton School of Cosmetology
- Sylvain Melloul International Hair Academy
- Tomorrow's Image Barber And Beauty Academy of Virginia
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