October 16, 2026·5 min read
Where Can a Stylist Work for Themselves in Austin?
The quick answer
Where can a stylist rent salon space in Austin, Cedar Park or Georgetown?
An Austin stylist going independent usually picks one of three setups: a booth in someone else’s salon, a private salon suite, or a membership at a Shared Workspace Salon™.
- bex+Co.® has seven Shared Workspace Salon™ locations around Austin, including Cedar Park by Target on East Whitestone and Georgetown beside the Square.
- A membership gets you your own chair and full workstation and your own key, with backbar, towels and cleaning included.
- Private suite rates in Austin run roughly $150 to $1,000 a week before supplies, per Bex’s own course research.
- If your book is still building, other pros around you help more than a closed door does.
If you’re a stylist in Austin thinking about working for yourself, the first real question is WHERE.
Here’s the map I’d hand you, with every local bex+Co.® salon on it...
What are your options for working for yourself in Austin?
You’ve got three real options: a booth in someone else’s salon, a private salon suite, or a membership at a Shared Workspace Salon™. The difference is who’s around you and what’s already included.
- A booth inside someone else’s salon. You keep your clients, and you work around the owner’s business, their hours and usually their rules.
- A private salon suite you lease and work in by yourself. The space is all yours, and so is every bill: backbar, towels, laundry, cleaning, often on a year-long lease.
- A membership at a Shared Workspace Salon™. One open floor, your own chair and full workstation, your own key and access around the clock, with backbar, towels and cleaning included and other independent pros working around you.
I built bex+Co.® around that third one. If you want the long version, I walk through every setup side by side here:
Where are the bex+Co.® salons around Austin?
I built our first salon here in Austin in 2015, and we have seven open today. Liberty Hill opens this fall.
GatewayGateway Shopping Center at Loop 360 and US-183, by Whole FoodsSee the salon
Which salons have space changes week to week, and some run a waitlist. Tell us the two or three that fit your drive and we’ll tell you exactly where things stand. Every salon and its pros are also on our Austin page.
What does it cost to work for yourself in Austin?
Here in Austin, I teach my students in Module 1 of my course that private suite rates run roughly $150 to $1,000 a week. That’s before backbar, towels or cleaning, which you usually buy separately in a suite.
The build-out is the cost people forget, and I walk through it on my Glam Chats podcast because it’s the number nobody sees coming. As I said on the podcast, $10,000 to $20,000 spent making a suite yours on a one-year lease is roughly $800 to $1,700 a month on top of rent, and the landlord can choose not to renew at the end of the year.
We don’t publish membership pricing, because it’s set by location. Our team gives you your exact number on a quick call, and you can work out your break-even first, so you know what a fair number looks like before we talk.
Which setup fits a newer stylist?
If your book is still building, who’s around you matters more than the door. Working alone in your first year is the risk I see newer stylists underestimate most, and it’s a big reason I built bex+Co.® on an open floor. You can start with a partial book, as long as you know your number and have a plan to reach it.
If you’re brand new out of school with almost no clients yet, I’d send you to commission first. I wrote the full case for newer stylists, and the math on how many clients you need:
When is a booth or a suite the better call?
In Module 1 of my course, I ask every student whether they work better alone or with people around them, before they sign anything. A suite is the better fit if your book is already full and you want quiet more than company, or your work needs real privacy. A booth can make sense if you love the salon you’re in and the owner’s setup works for you. Both are real businesses, and the right one depends on your book and how you like to work. If you’re leaning toward a suite, read these first:
Key takeaways
- Austin stylists who go independent choose between a booth, a private salon suite and a Shared Workspace Salon™ membership.
- bex+Co.® has seven salons around Austin today, from Cedar Park and Georgetown to South Lamar, and Liberty Hill opens this fall.
- Compare the all-in cost of a suite: a $10,000 to $20,000 build-out on a one-year lease adds roughly $800 to $1,700 a month, per Bex’s Glam Chats podcast.
- If your book is still building, pick the setup with other pros around you.
Questions people ask
Is there a bex+Co.® in Cedar Park or Georgetown?
Yes, both. Cedar Park is on East Whitestone, by Target, and serves Cedar Park, Leander and Brushy Creek. Georgetown is in a converted historic hotel on Austin Avenue, beside the Georgetown Square. Liberty Hill opens this fall.
How is a Shared Workspace Salon™ different from a booth or a salon suite?
Booth rental puts you inside someone else’s salon, working around the owner’s business. A salon suite is a private room you lease and work in by yourself. A Shared Workspace Salon™ is one open floor where each beauty pro holds a membership with their own chair and full workstation, their own key and access around the clock, and other independent pros working around them.
How much does a bex+Co.® membership cost?
Pricing is set by location, so our team gives you your exact number on a quick call. You can work out your break-even first with the calculator on our membership cost page.
Can a newer stylist start at bex+Co.®?
Yes, if you’re licensed and ready to build your own book. Know your number and have a plan to reach it, and you can start with a partial book. If you’re brand new out of school with almost no clients yet, Bex sends you to commission first.
How this page was made
Written with AI from Bex’s teaching and her course. Every number checked against its source. Her team read every line before it went up. Open the card for what we checked and what we couldn’t.
How we verified this page
What we checked, what we couldn’t, and who read it.Checked October 16, 20263 sourcesReported with AI
The page
What this page is for
Helps an Austin-area stylist see every option for working for themselves, where each bex+Co.® salon is, and what each setup really costs, before they ask anyone for a price.
Who we wrote it for
A licensed beauty pro in the Austin area who already has some clients and is choosing where to work for themselves. Not for a stylist brand new out of school (Bex sends them to commission first).
Our lens
bex+Co. is a Shared Workspace Salon™, and we make money when a beauty pro becomes a member here. So we say plainly above when a booth or a suite elsewhere is the better fit.
Decisions we made
- Left bex+Co.’s own membership price off the page; pricing is set by location and shared on a call.
- Listed every salon with where it is, so a stylist can judge the drive before asking anything.
- Kept the newer-stylist case short and linked to the full page instead of repeating it.
The work
How we researched it
- Asked ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Google AI Overview and Google AI Mode “what is the best place for a new hairstylist to rent space in Austin?” and “where can a hairstylist rent a chair in Cedar Park or Georgetown, TX?” three times each on 2026-10-16. The answers listed suite brands and listing sites, and almost never a Shared Workspace Salon™.
- Pulled the Austin suite range from Module 1 of Bex’s Beauty Empire Blueprint course and the build-out math from her Glam Chats episode on suite rentals.
- Took each salon’s location from its own page on this site.
What we could not verify
- The $150 to $1,000 Austin suite range is Bex’s own course estimate from her market research. We did not run a fresh survey this week.
- The $10,000 to $20,000 build-out range is Bex’s figure from her podcast; the $800 to $1,700 a month is that range divided by 12.
Who wrote it
Written with AI from Bex’s teaching and her course. Every number checked against its source. Her team read every line before it went up.
Dates
Published October 16, 2026. Last checked October 16, 2026. Check again by April 16, 2027.
Changes and corrections
- October 16, 2026: first published, built to the Answer Page Standard.
Sources
- Bex Irvine, Beauty Empire Blueprint course: Module 1 training (choosing your space, Austin suite pricing). Course content, members only.
- Bex Irvine, Glam Chats podcast: The hidden math behind salon suite rentals that nobody talks about.
- bex+Co.® salon pages, Austin, Cedar Park and Georgetown (addresses and areas, checked 2026-10-16).
100+ beauty pros chose freedom. There’s room for you.
Across 7 bex+Co.® floors, running their own businesses with other pros beside them.
Your move
You were never meant to do this alone.
Tell us which salon you’d like to work in. We’ll show you which bex+Co.® salons have space for a new member and which are full, then set up a tour if you want one.