Oregon Health Licensing Office, Board of Cosmetology

Cosmetology Facility License

Two traps here produce wrong answers. Oregon licenses facilities, not salons — the statutory term is facility, defined as an establishment operated on a regular or irregular basis to provide services in one or more fields of practice. And the figure the state's own license directory returns first for cosmetology, $45 for two years, is the practitioner's certificate, not the premises: the facility runs on a one-year cycle at $155, with a $140 application fee the first time, so $295 to open. The license holder must be a natural person aged eighteen or over, and where the applicant is a company that company must be properly formed under Oregon law — so the Secretary of State registration comes first. Each location needs its own license. Practitioners must work in a licensed facility unless they hold a freelance authorisation or an independent contractor registration, each $140 a year plus an application fee. A temporary facility permit covering up to thirty consecutive days is $70 plus $140.