What are the license fees to open a med spa in Minnesota?
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Short answer
The cited rules give only cosmetology fees: $350 initial salon license ($250 plus $100 application fee) and $195 per initial practitioner, manager, or instructor; renewals $225 and $115. Medical-side licensing is not in this schedule.
💰 Minnesota publishes the actual numbers, and they run on a three-year cycle. The statutory schedule sets “$350 initial salon license, divided as follows: (i) $250 for each initial license; and (II) $100 for each initial license application fee” and “$195 initial practitioner, manager, or instructor license”, with renewals at “$225 renewal of salon license” and “$115 renewal of practitioner license”. These are cosmetology licenses — the medical side of a med spa is licensed separately and is not in this schedule.
Minn. Stat. § 155A.25, subd. 1a(b) · verified Sep 2, 2026 · regulatory monitoring, not legal advice
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⚠️ and Minnesota prices the mistakes in the same section, which is worth reading before you open. Penalties may be assessed up to “reinspection fee, $150”, “expired salon found on inspection, $500”, “performing nail or cosmetology services in esthetician salon, or performing esthetician or cosmetology services in a nail salon, $500”, and “owner and manager allowing an operator to work as an independent contractor, $200”. The last one matters for the booth-rental model a lot of spas assume they can use.
Minn. Stat. § 155A.25, subd. 1a(c) · verified Sep 2, 2026
⚠️ there is no med spa registration and no medical director requirement. Chapter 147 was surveyed in full for this entry: it contains no occurrence of “medical director” and no facility license, registration, permit or fee of any kind for a cosmetic practice. Minnesota regulates the PERSON performing the act, never the premises — so there is no register a Minnesota consumer can check, and no filing a Minnesota operator must make.
Minn. Stat. ch. 147 (surveyed in full via the chapter text) · verified Sep 2, 2026
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