A dry shaver is capable of being depressed equally at different positions but with differing contact pressures between the outer and inner cutters. The shaver has a housing (10) having a motor (40) and mounting the outer cutter (62) and the inner cutter (61) at its upper end. The inner cutter (61) is driven by the motor to move in shearing engagement with the outer cutter (62) for shaving the hairs. The inner cutter (61) is urged upwardly by a bias spring (44) to develop a contact pressure at which the inner cutter is pressed against the outer cutter. The outer cutter is carried by a cutter holder (63) which is movably supported to a head frame (70) mounted on top of the housing. Included in the shaver is a height adjust mechanism for adjusting the height of the head frame (70) relative to the housing (10) between a high position and a low position while compressing the spring differently to vary the contact pressure, and for allowing the cutter holder to be depressed relative to the head frame from each of the high and low positions.