How much does a manicure cost in Australia?
Manicures, pedicures and gel work, from published price lists.
The range
- Lower quartile
- $35
- Midpoint
- $55
- Upper quartile
- $75
a quarter are cheaper
half are either side
a quarter are dearer
Half of the published prices sit between $35 and $75, with a midpoint of $55. That is drawn from 973 Australian businesses that publish this pricing, as collected on 25 September 2026.
Why the range is so wide
A plain manicure sits at the bottom, gel and shellac a step above it, and full extensions — acrylic, SNS, builder gel — above that again. Removal and soak-off are frequently separate lines, which is worth knowing when comparing two lists that look far apart.
By city
Largest sample first, and each city has its own page. A city appears only where at least 25 businesses publish this pricing, because below that a single expensive salon moves the whole row.
What these numbers are, and are not
Every figure is computed from businesses’ own published service menus — 5,847 priced lines from 973 businesses, 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 — 973 businesses in our catalogue offer this service, and 973 of them publish a price for it. The ones that publish are not a random sample of the ones that do not.
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