Where do these prices come from?

They are read from the service menus businesses publish on their own websites — 84 individual priced lines across 28 businesses in Cairns. They are not quotes, and businesses that publish pricing are not a random sample of the market.

How much does a haircut cost in Cairns?

Every haircut price published by a hair salon or barber in our catalogue, read together. This page is the Cairns cut of it.

The range in Cairns

Lower quartile: $38
Midpoint: $65
Upper quartile: $96

Half of the haircuts prices published in Cairns sit between $38 and $96, with a midpoint of $65. That is drawn from 28 businesses in Cairns that publish this pricing, as collected on 25 September 2026.

Against the rest of the country

The midpoint in Cairns is $10 above the national midpoint of $55, or about 18 per cent dearer. That gap is between published price lists, not between quotes, so it describes how businesses advertise rather than what every appointment costs.

Why the range is so wide

Most of the spread is length and who holds the scissors. Price lists routinely quote short, medium and long as separate lines, and a salon that runs staff tiers will list the same cut two or three times — emerging stylist through to creative director — with the top tier commonly around double the bottom. A cut quoted with a blow-dry sits higher again.

The other cities

Largest sample first. A city appears only where at least 25 businesses publish this pricing, because below that a single expensive salon moves the whole row.

Published haircuts prices in other cities, with sample sizes
City	Lower quartile	Midpoint	Upper quartile	Businesses
Melbourne	$35	$55	$90	453
Sydney	$38	$60	$99	412
Brisbane	$36	$56	$106	213
Perth	$39	$59	$100	155
Gold Coast	$35	$50	$85	95
Adelaide	$35	$54	$84	92
Sunshine Coast	$50	$75	$130	41
Central Coast	$30	$45	$60	27

What these numbers are, and are not

Every figure is computed from businesses’ own published service menus — 84 priced lines from 28 businesses in Cairns, collected on 25 September 2026. None of it is typed in by hand.

A published price is not a quote. What you are charged depends on your hair, your skin and how long the appointment actually takes, and many businesses quote on consultation rather than publishing at all. Nationally, 2,214 businesses in our catalogue offer this service and 2,214 publish a price for it. The ones that publish are not a random sample of the ones that do not.

How we handle data

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