-27%
Earnings trend · post-entry horizons
Earnings 10 years post-entry at The Salon Professional Academy-Melbourne are 27% below 6-year earnings ($22.6k → $16.5k).
Florida · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates
The Salon Professional Academy-Melbourne
Melbourne, Florida. 132 undergraduate students. 2 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at The Salon Professional Academy-Melbourne
Short-arc shifts (recent 3-year window), peer outliers, earnings trend breaks, completion drops, enrollment cliffs, and debt-to-earnings warnings — surfaced deterministically from the federal record. Multi-decade shifts are reported separately in the Long Arc section, since 25-year tuition drift isn't really an anomaly.
-100%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at The Salon Professional Academy-Melbourne fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (3.3% → 0.0%).
+67%
150%-time completion
150%-time completion at The Salon Professional Academy-Melbourne rose 67% between 2006 and 2009 (41.4% → 68.9%).
+22%
First-year retention
First-year retention at The Salon Professional Academy-Melbourne rose 22% between 2021 and 2024 (77.4% → 94.4%).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. Florida
Each tile compares this institution to the Florida median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
$16,515-27% · 6→10y
Florida median $36,288$22,621
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry67.4%+26% · '97→'09
Florida median 65.6%$6,333+187% · '97→'20
At program completion132+254% · '96→'24
latest IPEDS95.0%+24% · '04→'24
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort—
annualSECTION 02 · EARNINGS HORIZONS
How earnings spread, 4 to 10 years after entry
Treasury tax-record earnings for federally aided students who first enrolled at this institution. Each point is a horizon from the most-recent vintage. Single median per horizon (no p25/p75 publishing).
Earnings widen with time post-entry. Selection: federal-aid recipients only — not all graduates.Methodology →
SECTION 03 · DEBT-TO-EARNINGS
What loans cost relative to earnings
Annual debt service as a share of median earnings 10 years after entry, computed under federal Direct loan terms (10-year fixed at 6%). The 8% line is the gainful-employment threshold from federal regulation; above 12% has historically been considered “failing” under prior rule cycles.
Institution-wide
5.1%Median federal debt $6,333 amortized over 10 years vs. median earnings $16,515 (10y after entry).
SECTION 04 · LONG ARC
Ten-plus year arc
Federally available history. Coverage varies by metric — IPEDS publishes some series only after 2009 and others only before.
Undergraduate enrollment.
150%-time completion rate.
Median federal student debt at exit.
+26%
The Salon Professional Academy-Melbourne · completion · 150% rose
54.5% → 68.9%
+24%
The Salon Professional Academy-Melbourne · retention rose
76.0% → 94.4%
+59%
The Salon Professional Academy-Melbourne · undergrad enrollment rose
46 → 163
+187%
The Salon Professional Academy-Melbourne · median debt rose
$2,625 → $7,528
-100%
The Salon Professional Academy-Melbourne · cohort default rate fell
21.8% → 0.0%
-37%
The Salon Professional Academy-Melbourne · pell share fell
73.5% → 46.3%
+21%
The Salon Professional Academy-Melbourne · earnings_median_10yr rose
$13,400 → $16,515
+40%
The Salon Professional Academy-Melbourne · earnings_median_8yr rose
$14,200 → $20,169
+42%
The Salon Professional Academy-Melbourne · earnings_median_6yr rose
$15,900 → $22,621
SECTION 05 · PROGRAMS
Ranked by 5-year earnings
Each row is one (CIP × credential) program reported by the institution in College Scorecard's Field-of-Study data. Cohort floor is 30 students; below this, federal data is suppressed.
SECTION 06 · BY CIP FAMILY
1 programs with earnings, grouped
Programs are grouped by 2-digit CIP family. Programs without reported earnings are hidden to keep the list focused.
PERSONAL & CULINARY SERVICES · CIP 12
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at The Salon Professional Academy-Melbourne
Pick a program. Cost from Scorecard net price by family income; earnings from Treasury 5-year-post-completion median, projected forward with a Mincer age-earnings curve. The selection-bias toggle applies the Dale-Krueger shrinkage. Outcomes illustration, not a forecast — see methodology.
Shrinks the earnings premium toward the matched-applicant mean. STEM <15%, business ~40%, arts & education ~60%.
NET PRESENT VALUE
-$296,908
Over 40 years, discounted 5.0%
BREAKEVEN
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Doesn’t reach breakeven within the horizon
- Cost per year
- $22,274
- HS-only baseline · FL
- $35,400
- Years to complete
- 1
- CIP family
- 12
Outcomes illustration · not a forecast. Projects observed Scorecard earnings forward with a Mincer age-earnings curve under your assumptions. See methodology for the math.
SECTION 07 · SIMILAR INSTITUTIONS
Same sector and degree mix in Florida
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“The Salon Professional Academy-Melbourne graduates earn $X” — not “The Salon Professional Academy-Melbourne makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending The Salon Professional Academy-Melbourne caused. Selection effects (who admits, who enrolls, who completes) are real. We publish federal data with strict descriptive phrasing — and link the methodology where you can read about the limitations directly.