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Hair salon Google Ads cost per click

Across the US, a typical hair salon campaign on Google Ads pays about $2.40 a click. That ranks 134 of the 146 kinds of business measured here, where the one in the middle pays $5.40.

$2.40

Cost per click, US

4.9 million

Searches a month, US

$0.50 to $2.70

Google's top-of-page bids for the same searches

Work out your budget

By service

Clicks for bridal hair and makeup cost the most at $2.80, 23% more than those for extensions and braids at $2.30. A campaign that takes every service pays somewhere between, set by which ones people search for most where it runs.

Hair salon Google Ads cost per click by service, US
ServiceCost per clickSearches a month
Bridal hair and makeup$2.8051,000
Haircuts and styling$2.503.8 million
Hair color$2.30700,000
Extensions and braids$2.30380,000

By state

A click costs the most in Arizona at $3.10, 2.4 times one in North Dakota at $1.30. The same searches cost more where more businesses bid on them and each customer is worth more.

Where people search most

Hair salon Google Ads cost per click in the ten states with the most searches
StateCost per clickSearches a month
California$2.80660,000
Texas$2.70520,000
New York$2.60410,000
Florida$2.60360,000
Illinois$2.60180,000
New Jersey$2.40170,000
Pennsylvania$1.90160,000
Washington$2.40150,000
Georgia$2.20150,000
North Carolina$2.30150,000

Dearest and cheapest

Hair salon Google Ads cost per click, the dearest and cheapest states
StateCost per click
Arizona$3.10
District of Columbia$3.10
Nevada$3.10
Massachusetts$2.90
Utah$2.80
New Mexico$1.50
South Dakota$1.50
Kentucky$1.40
West Virginia$1.40
North Dakota$1.30
Every state with enough searches (51)
Hair salon Google Ads cost per click by state, dearest first
StateCost per clickSearches a month
Arizona$3.1098,000
District of Columbia$3.1024,000
Nevada$3.1049,000
Massachusetts$2.90110,000
Utah$2.8052,000
Colorado$2.80130,000
California$2.80660,000
Texas$2.70520,000
New Hampshire$2.6018,000
Florida$2.60360,000
New York$2.60410,000
Illinois$2.60180,000
Missouri$2.5066,000
Washington$2.40150,000
New Jersey$2.40170,000
Maryland$2.3088,000
Oregon$2.3076,000
Louisiana$2.3044,000
North Carolina$2.30150,000
Connecticut$2.3045,000
Georgia$2.20150,000
Arkansas$2.2030,000
Vermont$2.109,700
Virginia$2.10140,000
Montana$2.1011,000
Michigan$2.10110,000
Idaho$2.0023,000
Hawaii$2.0024,000
Delaware$1.9013,000
Pennsylvania$1.90160,000
Rhode Island$1.9012,000
Ohio$1.90120,000
South Carolina$1.8072,000
Kansas$1.8033,000
Iowa$1.8030,000
Wisconsin$1.8069,000
Tennessee$1.8091,000
Oklahoma$1.7043,000
Minnesota$1.7067,000
Nebraska$1.7020,000
Maine$1.7018,000
Mississippi$1.6023,000
Indiana$1.6068,000
Alaska$1.608,400
Wyoming$1.507,800
Alabama$1.5060,000
New Mexico$1.5022,000
South Dakota$1.507,600
Kentucky$1.4039,000
West Virginia$1.4017,000
North Dakota$1.308,100

Against Google's own bids

Keyword Planner puts the top-of-page bids for these searches at $0.50 to $2.70: what advertisers bid to show above the results. A typical campaign pays $2.40, inside that range, because Google charges what it takes to beat the ad below and not the bid itself. Planning a budget on the top-of-page bid overstates what clicks will cost.

No published study measures this business on its own, so its price level is the median for its industry in LocaliQ's studies, moved a third of the way toward Google's prices scaled to what campaigns paid. Google's prices set how its services and the states compare.

Priced near hair salon

Just above and below in the ranking

All 146 businesses, ranked

Where the figures come from

Google's own search counts and click prices for the year to August 2026 (Keyword Planner, through DataForSEO), scaled to what campaigns paid in LocaliQ's published studies, rounded to ten cents. They are medians: half of campaigns pay more. The full method is on the benchmark page, and the budget calculator runs on the same data for any ZIP code.

Written by Grant Epley. Last reviewed October 11, 2026. Search data to August 2026.