Hairdresser ads in San Francisco: US$1.04 a click

What a booked booking costs in clicks

There is a sourced lead rate for hairdresser (10.35% of clicks call or fill a form; US benchmark, LocaliQ 2026, Beauty & Personal Care) but no sourced booking rate, so this page prints no cost per booked booking. Put in your own booking rate in the planner below to see it.

Cost per booked booking in San Francisco is the click price divided by the lead rate times the booking rate. The rates are national benchmarks, not San Francisco figures; the planner below starts from them and you can change both.

Each row uses the same two rates as the sentence above, so the order follows click price.

Where the hairdresser searches are in San Francisco

Searches split by what the searcher typed. The two tags rank the groups on this page by click price; they are rankings, not verdicts.

Specific jobs are the largest share of counted search volume in San Francisco, at 36.5%.

In San Francisco, specific jobs has the highest click price among the counted intent groups, at US$1.15 a click.

Plan a month of hairdresser ads in San Francisco

Put in your own value per booking and margin. The call and booking rates start at the benchmarks named under each box; change them to your own.

Every hairdresser keyword tracked in San Francisco

Monthly searches are the average of the last 12 months. Related keywords are shown for context and are not counted in any total on this page.

The most-searched hairdresser keywords in San Francisco are “hair salon near me” (9,967 searches a month at US$0.98 a click), “hair salon” (8,292 searches a month at US$0.97 a click), and “haircut” (6,300 searches a month at US$1.45 a click).

In San Francisco, “hair extensions” is the keyword furthest from the country median: US$2.83 a click, 146.1% above the US$1.15 median click price for hairdresser across this country's tracked cities.

In San Francisco, “keratin treatment” is the least-searched of the counted keywords tracked here, at 380 searches a month.

In San Francisco, 10 of the 10 counted hairdresser keywords tracked here have a recorded Google click price.

How San Francisco compares in the United States

Over the 48 months tracked, hairdressers searches in San Francisco peaked in August 2023 at 41,530 and were lowest in February 2024 at 24,930. San Francisco's single latest tracked month is down 1.2% on the same month a year ago and up 10.6% on the same month two years ago (a one-month comparison, not the rolling 12-month year-on-year figure above). In San Francisco, the keyword changing fastest year on year is "balayage", down 20.4%.

• San Francisco is 19th of 50 United States cities by click price, mid-table.
• San Francisco is 5th of 50 United States cities by monthly searches, mid-table.
• San Francisco is 2nd of 6 California cities by click price, among the three lowest.
• San Francisco is 2nd of 6 California cities by monthly searches, among the three highest.
• For this service, San Francisco sits in California, which is 12th of 31 states by businesses per 10,000 people, mid-table (an average of 2.5 businesses per 10,000 people across California).
• San Francisco's 675.0 searches a month per 100,000 people is above the country-wide rate of 536.2 for this service.
• San Francisco's median hairdresser click price of US$1.04 is 9.6% below the country median of US$1.15.
• Counted searches over the last 12 months are down 8.1% on the 12 months before.
• In San Francisco, searches are fairly even through the year; the busiest month, March, is not a strong peak.

Hairdresser businesses in San Francisco

The US Census Bureau counts 1,189 businesses in this industry in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA (2023), about 2.6 for every 10,000 people.

What is counted: employer establishments.

Counts cover businesses with employees; most sole traders are not included.

Population: 4,630,041 (San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA). Source: US Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP), MSA/micropolitan estimates, vintage 2023.

Business counts are never compared across countries on this site: each country's statistics agency counts a different set of businesses.

Hairdresser click prices in 6 countries

United States is 6th of 6 countries by median hairdresser click price (lowest first), all in US$ at the Federal Reserve H.10 September 2026 average.

Medians across each country's tracked cities, same pull month. Each country uses its own keyword set and its own name for the service. Only click prices and searches are compared across borders; business counts are not.

Rules for hairdressers in the United States

Licensing is set by each state.

Questions people ask about hairdresser ads in San Francisco

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Data and sources

Search data pulled October 13, 2026. Google Keyword Planner estimates via DataForSEO, not what you will pay at auction; your own Google Ads account shows your real price.