--- title: Most Expensive Haircut: Kodiak Alaska description: Kodiak Island, Alaska, is the most expensive place to get a haircut in America. canonical: https://time.com/2976601/this-is-the-most-expensive-place-to-get-a-haircut-in-the-u-s/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-11T15:55:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:11:36.449Z og:title: This Is the Most Expensive Place to Get a Haircut in the U.S. og:description: Think remote og:url: https://time.com/2976601/this-is-the-most-expensive-place-to-get-a-haircut-in-the-u-s/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9dfd7aa2054e24b7/69869b6af983e7a44804ec5d/haircut.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: haircut og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Is the Most Expensive Place to Get a Haircut in the U.S. twitter:description: Think remote twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9dfd7aa2054e24b7/69869b6af983e7a44804ec5d/haircut.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This Is the Most Expensive Place to Get a Haircut in the U.S.  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Jul 11, 2014 3:55 PM UTC  Getty Images  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Jul 11, 2014 3:55 PM UTC The priciest men’s haircut in America can be found on Kodiak, an island 30 miles off the southern coast of Alaska, The Associated Press reports via the [_Kodiak Daily Mirror._](http://www.kodiakdailymirror.com) The average price in Kodiak is $26.67 per cut, nearly twice the national average, which is $13.95 per cut, [according to](http://laborstats.alaska.gov/col/col.pdf) The Council for Community and Economic Research. The data is part of the organization’s survey focusing on 300 U.S. cities. Kodiak’s cost of living registers “well above the 300-city average,” Alaska’s Department of Labor [reports](http://laborstats.alaska.gov/col/col.pdf). The high cost of living may be due to the remote location of Kodiak, the state’s[ largest](http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=wildlifenews.view%5Farticle&articles%5Fid=635) island and the [second-largest](http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/320944/Kodiak-Island) island in the U.S. after Hawaii’s “Big Island”. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2976601/this-is-the-most-expensive-place-to-get-a-haircut-in-the-u-s/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2976601/this-is-the-most-expensive-place-to-get-a-haircut-in-the-u-s/"},"headline":"This Is the Most Expensive Place to Get a Haircut in the U.S.","datePublished":"2014-07-11T15:55:14.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:11:36.449Z","description":"Think remote","url":"https://time.com/2976601/this-is-the-most-expensive-place-to-get-a-haircut-in-the-u-s/","keywords":["Newsfeed","nation"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9dfd7aa2054e24b7/69869b6af983e7a44804ec5d/haircut.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9dfd7aa2054e24b7/69869b6af983e7a44804ec5d/haircut.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"haircut","caption":"","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2976601/this-is-the-most-expensive-place-to-get-a-haircut-in-the-u-s/","name":"This Is the Most Expensive Place to Get a Haircut in the U.S."}}]}] ```