What are the license fees to open a med spa in Alaska?
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Short answer
The cited rules do not settle full startup cost — they fix only the esthetics licensing fees: a $150 nonrefundable application fee, plus $180 for the esthetician license and $260 for the shop owner license for the initial biennial period.
Alaska publishes the cost of entry as a fee rule, so this is an answer rather than an estimate. 12 AAC 02.140. Board of Barbers and Hairdressers. (a) The following fees are established: (1) nonrefundable application fee for (A) initial license, $150 The application fee is charged before any license issues and is not returned if the application fails.
12 AAC 02.140(a)(1)(A) (what it costs to open — the nonrefundable application fee) · verified Sep 6, 2026 · regulatory monitoring, not legal advice
Related Alaska rules
The recurring half is set separately, per license type, for the initial biennial period. The following license fees are established for all or part of the initial biennial license period: (1) barber, non-chemical barber, or hairdresser, $180; (2) esthetician, $180; (3) instructor, $260; (4) shop owner, $260; (5) school and school owner combined, $660 An esthetician opening her own studio therefore pays the $150 application fee, $180 as an esthetician and $260 as shop owner — practitioner and premises are billed separately, as they are in most states.
12 AAC 02.140(b) (the biennial license fees a studio actually pays) · verified Sep 6, 2026
Compounded semaglutide in Alaska is bounded by the definition of compounding, which has only two limbs and one of them forbids sale. “compounding” means the preparation, mixing, assembling, packaging, or labeling of a drug or device (A) as the result of a practitioner's prescription drug order or initiative based on the relationship of the practitioner, patient, and pharmacist in the course of professional practice or (B) for the purpose of, or as an incident to, research, teaching, or chemical analysis and not for sale or dispensing Limb (A) requires a prescription order resting on a practitioner-patient-pharmacist relationship; limb (B) is research and is expressly not for sale or dispensing. A clinic buying compounded stock reaches neither on the face of the definition.
AS 08.80.480(4) (definition of “compounding” — and what it does NOT reach) · verified Sep 6, 2026
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