Bryce Cleveland Net Worth 2026: Scalpa Founder and Federal Case

No reputable outlet has published a net worth for Bryce Cleveland, the founder and chief executive of Scalpa, an Arizona company that sold scalp micropigmentation training and cosmetic devices. The yearly income of $250 million that this page used to show had no source and has been removed. What the public record does show is a business that grew fast in the 2010s and a federal criminal case that ended with Cleveland pleading guilty in August 2026 and agreeing to forfeit $800,000.

What is Bryce Cleveland's net worth?

There is no published estimate from Forbes, Celebrity Net Worth or any major newspaper, and we will not invent one. Scalpa is a private company, so its revenue and profit are not filed publicly. The few money figures that exist come from Cleveland himself or from the Justice Department:

• In a 2015 interview with the Democrat and Chronicle, Cleveland said each open Scalp Aesthetics location averaged about $100,000 in revenue a month. That was his own claim, not an audited number, and it describes franchise locations, not his personal income.
• The same article put the price of a scalp micropigmentation procedure at about $4,000.
• Under his 2026 plea agreement, reported by The Washington Times, he agreed to forfeit $800,000 and to pay restitution covering the full scope of the conduct.

Any estimate of his wealth today would also have to account for legal costs, forfeiture and restitution, none of which have been totaled publicly. That is why this page gives no figure.

Bryce Cleveland yearly earnings, monthly income and salary

The old version of this page listed a yearly income of $250 million, $21 million a month and $700,000 a day. No source supports any of those numbers, and they are far out of line with the only revenue claim on record, so we have removed them. Cleveland's salary as Scalpa's chief executive has never been disclosed.

His income came from three kinds of business, based on the profiles we reviewed:

• Clinics and franchises. Scalp Aesthetics offered micropigmentation, a tattoo-like treatment that places tiny dots of pigment on the scalp to mimic short hair. Locations opened across the United States and in Canada.
• Online training. Scalpa sold courses that taught beauticians micropigmentation and other cosmetic techniques, plus how to run their own business.
• Products. The company sold inks, pens and other products used in aesthetic procedures. Some of these products were at the center of the federal case described below.

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Early life and education

Cleveland grew up in Irondequoit, a suburb of Rochester, New York. The Democrat and Chronicle described him in 2015 as a 31-year-old Irondequoit High School dropout who had moved to Scottsdale, Arizona. A 2020 profile on Thrive Global's contributor platform said he left school at 16 and had struggled with ADHD. Older versions of this page said he later earned a bachelor's degree; we found no source for that and have removed it. The earlier claims that both of his parents were trainers were also unsupported and are gone.

How Scalpa grew

Cleveland told the Rochester paper he got the treatment himself because he had started balding young, and that he spent years refining the inks and needles. He also wrote a self-published business book, sold as How to Be a Business Savage.

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The federal case

This is the biggest recent development and the main reason people search his name. The facts below come from news reports of Justice Department filings.

• July 2024: a federal grand jury in the Western District of Virginia returned a 34-count indictment: 12 counts of mail fraud, 9 counts of wire fraud, 12 counts of introducing adulterated devices into interstate commerce and one count of introducing an unapproved new drug, according to WVVA.
• Late 2025: he was located in Colombia, returned to the United States and arrested in Florida by the U.S. Marshals Service on the outstanding warrant, then appeared in court in Virginia.
• August 3, 2026: he pleaded guilty to three charges, one each of mail fraud, introducing an adulterated device and introducing an unapproved new drug.

Prosecutors said that between March 2018 and December 2020 Cleveland marketed products such as the Hyaluron Pen and ScalpaJECT Hyaluronic Acid while falsely claiming they were not regulated by the FDA. They also said he sold Scalpatox, which officials described as an unapproved and misbranded botulinum toxin product. The plea agreement calls for a prison term of four to eight years, plus restitution and the $800,000 forfeiture. We found no report of the final sentence as of September 2026.

Personal life

Earlier versions of this page described a wife and showed photos captioned with family members. We could not confirm any of that in a reliable source, so those passages and photos have been removed. He was reported as 42 years old and living in Scottsdale in 2025 and 2026 coverage. Claims about his height and weight had no source and are also gone.

How this page was checked

We rebuilt this profile from a 2015 local newspaper interview, a 2020 contributor profile, and 2025 and 2026 news coverage of the court case. Revenue and location counts from Cleveland or his company are labeled as their claims. Anything we could not trace to a source, including the old income table, education details and family details, was removed rather than repeated.