Beauty salons

Industry Group

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    Workforce Population
    667k
    2024
    Average Employee Age
    39.9
    2024
    Average Salary
    $33,831
    2024
    Average Male Salary
    $46,844
    2024
    Average Female Salary
    $32,370
    2024

    About

    The top three occupations in the Beauty salons Industry Group are hairdressers, hairstylists, & cosmetologists, skincare specialists, and receptionists & information clerks. On average, full-time employees in the Beauty salons Industry Group work 41.7 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $42,924. Part-time employees in the same industry work 23.1 hours and earn an average annual salary of $22,449.

    The workforce of Beauty salons Industry Group in 2024 was 667,398 people, with 89.9% woman, and 10.1% men.

    In 2024, 61.4% of the workforce in the Beauty salons Industry Group was White (409,784 people), of which 92% were women and 7.96% men.

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    Employment & Salaries

    A snapshot of workforce, wages, and opportunities in the Beauty salons Industry Group.

    The workforce in Beauty salons Industry Group was 667,398 people and is concentrated in California (65,375 workers). The average annual salary was $33,831, being $36,047 less than the national average salary, which was $69,878.

    Monthly Employment

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    3.81%
    Year-over-year growth
    Employment change between February 2022 and February 2023

    As of February 2023, there are 5.79M people employed in the Other Services industry. This represents a 3.81% increase in employment when compared to February 2022.

    This chart shows monthly employment numbers for Other Services over time (non-seasonally adjusted).

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    Employment by Location

    The states that concentrated the largest workforce in 2024 were California (65.4k), Texas (58.1k), and Florida (57.3k).

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    Yearly Wage Ranking

    In 2024, Beauty salons Industry Group had an average annual wage of $33,831, $36,047 less than the average national salary of $69,878.

    The graph shows the position of Beauty salons Industry Group in the ranking of industries by average annual wage.

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    Wage Distribution

    0.427
    WAGE GINI

    Beauty salons has a wage GINI of 0.427, which is less than than the national average of 0.474. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Beauty salons (shown in red) in comparison to the national average for those wage buckets (shown in gray).

    The graphic shows the distribution of average salaries by buckets for Beauty salons Industry Group workers compared to the entire workforce in the country.

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    Occupations

    A review of jobs and wages in the Beauty salons Industry Group.

    Hairdressers, hairstylists, & cosmetologists are the most common position with 478,998 workers, but the Beauty salons Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Skincare specialists and Receptionists & information clerks.

    The highest average salary in Beauty salons goes to Nurse practitioners & nurse midwives.

    Occupations Distribution

    The graph shows the distribution of employees in the Beauty salons Industry Group according to occupations. In 2024, the occupations that concentrated the largest number of employees in this industry were hairdressers, hairstylists, & cosmetologists (478,998 people), skincare specialists (37,023 people), and receptionists & information clerks (31,538 people)

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    Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

    $46,844
    AVERAGE MALE SALARY
    ±$5,032
    $32,370
    AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY
    ±$1,016

    On average, Male workers in the Beauty salons Industry Group make 1.45 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the sex-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Beauty salons Industry Group.

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    Business

    Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Beauty salons Industry Group. Based on estimates from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, this section indicates the amount of money spent by a specific industry in other industries.

    The industrial flow illustrates the intermediate inputs and the use of outputs of the Beauty salons Industry Group.

    The Beauty salons Industry Group gets the most input, by its share of the cost of all intermediate inputs, from the Professional and business services Industry.

    California and Florida stand out as the states with the largest number of establishments in the Beauty salons Industry Group.

    Industrial Flow

    The closest comparable data for Beauty salons is from Other Services, Except Public Administration.

    Professional and business services has the highest single input, by dollars, to the Beauty salons Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Beauty salons Industry Group is Professional and business services.

    In this flow diagram, all of the industries listed to the left are those places from which the highlighted industry has made purchases. They are the intermediate inputs to the highlighted industry. All those industries listed on the right side are those industries that have made purchases from the highlighted industry. They are the use of outputs of the highlighted industry. The visualizations below offer alternative ways to see and understand this data.

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    Intermediate Inputs

    The closest comparable data for Beauty salons is from Other Services, Except Public Administration.
    HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY
    1. Professional and business services
    2. Manufacturing
    3. Finance, insurance, real estate, rental, and leasing

    The Beauty salons Industry Group gets the most input, by its share of the cost of all intermediate inputs, from the Professional and business services Industry. This visualization does not include labor and capital costs.

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    Use of Output by Other Industries

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    LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY
    1. Professional and business services
    2. Finance, insurance, real estate, rental, and leasing
    3. Educational services, health care, and social assistance

    The Professional and business services Industry purchases the greatest share of products and services from the Beauty salons Industry Group in order to produce other goods and services. Purchases of the Beauty salons Industry Group for final consumption by consumers, businesses, or government are not included here.

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    Establishments

    States with more establishments in 2022
    1. California
      8,400
    2. Florida
      7,315
    3. New York
      7,074

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    Diversity

    Demographic information on the Beauty salons Industry Group in the US.

    Of the total workforce, 89.9% corresponds to women and 10.1% men. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $46,844 and $32,370.

    82.8% of workers have a high school or equivalent, some college or associates degree.

    Gender and Age

    600,044
    Women
    89.9%
    67,354
    Men
    10.1%

    The workforce of Beauty salons industry in 2024 was 667,398 people, with 89.9% woman, and 10.1% men.

    The visualization shows the distribution of the workforce by gender and age in Beauty salons industry.

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    Races

    In 2024, 61.4% of the workforce in the Beauty salons industry was White (409,784 people), of which 92% were women and 7.96% men.

    Other races that concentrated a significant number of workers were Two or More Races and Black.

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    Educational Levels

    The main educational levels achieved by the Beauty salons workers in 2024 were high school or equivalent (276,846 people), some college (197,316 people), and associates degree (78,112 people).

    The chart shows the Beauty salons workforce by gender and educational level.

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