Dog Grooming Price List: A Complete 2026 Template You Can Copy

This is the template post: a complete dog grooming price list with typical 2026 ranges filled in, ready to copy, adjust to your market, and publish. It deliberately skips the strategy questions, what your costs are, what your market bears, and how to position against the salon down the street. That thinking lives in our dog grooming pricing guide, and it is worth doing before you fill in your own numbers. What follows is the structure that thinking should land in.

Full Groom Prices by Size

The full groom is your anchor service: bath, blowout, brush-out, nails, ears, and a full haircut. Size is the honest first axis for pricing because it tracks time on the table better than breed lists do.

Each size step up should add roughly $15 to $30, because the jump in bathing, drying, and clipping time is real. If your current list charges a Newfoundland less than double a Shih Tzu, the Newfoundland is being subsidized by every small dog on your books.

Puppies get one special entry on this grid: a short, gentle first visit at a reduced price, often $25 to $40, that covers a bath, a light trim, and mostly patience. It is the cheapest marketing you will ever run, because a puppy whose first appointment went well becomes a client for a decade. Senior dogs go the other way: they often need more breaks and more careful handling, so keep them at full price and let the starting-at framing absorb the extra time.

Bath and Tidy Tier

The bath and tidy is the maintenance visit between full grooms: bath, blowout, brush-out, nails, and light trimming around the face, feet, and sanitary areas, but no full haircut. Price it around 30 to 40 percent below the full groom so it reads as the sensible in-between visit, not a cheap substitute.

A healthy book alternates the two: full groom, then a bath and tidy 3 to 4 weeks later, then a full groom again. Clients keep a mat-free coat on a schedule, and you keep a fuller calendar.

Coat-Type Surcharges

Size does not capture everything. A 60 lb Husky in coat blow and a 60 lb Boxer are not the same appointment, so the coats that take longer carry flat surcharges on top of the size price:

A La Carte and Add-On Menu

Add-ons are where a price list quietly earns its keep: small services, real margin, and clients happily choose them when they are listed plainly. These prices work standalone (a walk-in nail trim) or stacked onto a groom.

Two notes on this table. Dematting is billed by the increment on purpose: matting varies from ten minutes to unworkable, and a per-increment price makes the cost track the work while giving you a natural point to stop and recommend a shave-down instead. And gland expression stays external at the grooming table; internal expression is a veterinary procedure, so send those dogs to the vet. For how to bundle and position these, see our guide on pricing grooming add-on services.

Mobile Grooming Prices

Mobile grooming prices typically run 20 to 40 percent above the salon equivalents, and the premium is honest: the client buys door-to-door convenience and one-on-one attention, and the groomer carries fuel, drive time, and a day that fits fewer dogs than a salon floor. Using the tables above, a small full groom that starts at $55 in a salon starts around $70 to $77 mobile. Keep the structure identical, sizes, tiers, surcharges, add-ons, and apply the premium across the board rather than inventing a separate menu.

Present Every Price as Starting At

The two words that protect this entire list are starting at. A price list of fixed numbers becomes a promise that a matted doodle, an oversized breed, or a dog who fights the dryer will break, and then you are renegotiating at pickup with an unhappy client. Starting prices set the floor honestly and leave room for condition: the coat, the size within the size band, and the behavior all get to adjust the final quote before the groom begins. Quote the adjustment at drop-off, not at pickup, and the conversation stays easy.

When and How to Publish Prices

Publish your starting prices. Hiding them does not make people call; it makes them book the groomer whose website answered the question at 9pm. Transparency filters out pure bargain shoppers, sets expectations before anyone is standing at your counter, and wins the growing share of clients who book online without phoning at all. Put the starting prices on your booking page and a clean board in the shop, and keep the full detailed list, surcharges and increments included, wherever clients book. A published list also disciplines you: it is much easier to hold a price that is written down.

Keep the List Current

A price list is not a monument. Review it every year, raise prices in small regular steps, and tie the review to a date so it actually happens. Annual increases of a few dollars per service pass almost unnoticed, while the panic correction after three frozen years is the one that loses clients; our guide on raising grooming prices without losing clients covers the wording. While you are reviewing, check the list against your real costs and time per groom using our breakdown of grooming salon profit margins, and if no-shows are eating the calendar the list feeds, our no-show calculator puts a dollar figure on the leak.

Turn This List Into Your Bookable Menu

A price list on paper still makes the client call you to use it. In GroomBoard, this exact structure becomes your service menu: each service carries per-size pricing, so the small and XL full grooms are one service with the right price at booking, and every price displays as a starting price on your public booking page. Clients pick the service, see the honest starting number, and book themselves; you get the appointment with the price already attached, SMS confirmations and reminders included. Copy the template above into your menu once, and your price list stops being a PDF and starts filling the calendar. Start your free 7-day trial →