Indiana — statewide
Indiana Professional Licensing Agency, State Board of Cosmetology and Barber Examiners
In short
Indiana Professional Licensing Agency, State Board of Cosmetology and Barber Examiners issues 2 permits we publish for Indiana — statewide, last verified 2026-09-03. Each carries the fee as the agency publishes it, with a link to the schedule it was read from.
What this agency issues
| Permit | Issuing agency | Fee | Renews | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Contractor, Electrical and HVAC Licensing — State of Indiana Positiononly if it applies to you | Indiana Professional Licensing Agency, State Board of Cosmetology and Barber Examiners | No fee | set by the city or county | 2026-09-03 |
| Beauty Culture Salon or Barber Shop License | Indiana Professional Licensing Agency, State Board of Cosmetology and Barber Examiners | $40 application and renewal alike | 4 years | 2026-09-03 |
Fees shown as a range or formula are set that way by the issuing agency — we do not average them into a single number.
About each permit
General Contractor, Electrical and HVAC Licensing — State of Indiana Position
There is no state fee to record here. The State of Indiana's Business Owner's Guide states that the only construction contractors licensed by the State of Indiana are plumbers, and that contractor licensing for everyone else is a local option that varies by city and county. The Professional Licensing Agency's professions page lists about forty regulated professions, and that list names no general contractor, builder, remodeler, roofer, electrician or HVAC license. Among construction trades, the professions title of the Indiana Code (title 25) has articles only for plumbers, water well drilling contractors and manufactured home installers. The state adopts an electrical code, but adopting a code is not licensing anyone. Everything therefore turns on the city or county, and a contractor crossing municipal lines can need several licenses.
Beauty Culture Salon or Barber Shop License
Forty dollars for four years is about as cheap as a premises license gets anywhere. Indiana has one license rather than two: a barber shop is licensed as a beauty culture salon under this rule, with the words barber shop license printed on the document, and the separate barber-shop chapter that once did the job no longer exists. Both fee rules land on the same $40 in any case. Booth renters are exempt from holding one. Reinstatement is $80 and a late renewal within three years adds $50. One thing is genuinely not published: the calendar date the license expires on, which the statute delegates to the agency and which appears nowhere — the agency says only that renewal notices go out about ninety days ahead.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Indiana — statewide
- Phone
- (317) 232-2960
Contact details are taken from the agency’s own site or its published fee schedule. Where we have not verified a phone number we leave it blank rather than guess.
Sources
Every fee and term above was read from one of these government pages on the date shown.
- 820 IAC 7-1 — cosmetology board application, issuance and quadrennial renewal fees (current Indiana Administrative Code)Indiana Professional Licensing Agency · primary source · retrieved 2026-10-08
- Indiana Business Owner's GuideState of Indiana · primary source · retrieved 2026-10-08
- Indiana Professional Licensing Agency — cosmetology and barber licensing fee tableIndiana Professional Licensing Agency · primary source · retrieved 2026-10-08
- Indiana Professional Licensing Agency — the complete list of professions it regulates, which contains no general contractor, electrical or HVAC entryIndiana Professional Licensing Agency · primary source · retrieved 2026-10-08
Other Indiana statewide offices
- Indiana Secretary of State, Business Services Division
- Indiana Department of Health, Food Protection Division
- Indiana Board of Veterinary Medicine
- Indiana Department of Revenue
- Indiana Family and Social Services Administration, Office of Early Childhood and Out-of-School Learning
- Indiana Plumbing Commission, Professional Licensing Agency
Indiana jurisdictions
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