What are the license fees to open a med spa in West Virginia?
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Short answer
The cited rules do not settle full cost — they price only the salon side: a $50 opening inspection, a $40 initial aesthetic salon license, $40 annual renewal, and $35 per practitioner license. No fee for the medical side is set here.
This legislative rule establishes the various fees that are to be submitted to the Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists by students, instructors, and owners and operators of schools of barbering and cosmetology and owners of barber, cosmetology, nail technology, hair styling, waxing, and aesthetic salons. 2.13 Salon or school opening inspection fee $50.00; 2.15 Initial license fee for cosmetology, barber, nail technology, hair styling, waxing, and aesthetic salon $40.00 2.16 Annual renewal fee for cosmetology, barber, nail technology, hair styling, waxing, and aesthetic salon $40.00.
W. Va. Code R. § 3-6-1.1, § 3-6-2.13, .15-.16 (Board of Barbers and Cosmetologists — Schedule of Fees, eff. May 22, 2025) · verified Sep 7, 2026 · regulatory monitoring, not legal advice
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2.2 Issuance or License fee $35.00 2.3 Reciprocity $100.00 2.4 Annual license renewal fee $35.00 2.10 Registration fee for booth or chair rental $15.00 2.11 Annual renewal for booth or chair rental $15.00
W. Va. Code R. § 3-6-2.2-.4, .10-.11 (Schedule of Fees — practitioner license and booth rental) · verified Sep 7, 2026
West Virginia puts the sale condition inside the first limb rather than leaving it to inference. “Compounding” means: (A) The preparation, mixing, assembling, packaging, or labeling of a drug or device: (i) As the result of a practitioner’s prescription drug order or initiative based on the practitioner/patient/pharmacist relationship in the course of professional practice for sale or dispensing; or (ii) For the purpose of, or as an incident to, research, teaching, or chemical analysis and not for sale or dispensing Compounding may be for sale or dispensing ONLY on limb (i) — which requires a prescription drug order resting on the practitioner/patient/pharmacist relationship. The research limb (ii) is expressly not for sale or dispensing, so it is no route to stock.
W. Va. Code § 30-5-4 (definition of “Compounding” — the two limbs, and which one permits sale) · verified Sep 6, 2026
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