Beauty salons

Industry Group

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Workforce Population

699k

2020

Average Employee Age

39.4

2020

Average Salary

$26,837

2020

Average Male Salary

$38,889

2020

Average Female Salary

$25,526

2020

About

The top three occupations in the Beauty salons Industry Group are hairdressers, hairstylists, & cosmetologists, manicurists and pedicurists, and receptionists & information clerks. On average, full-time employees in the Beauty salons Industry Group work 42 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $33,318. Part-time employees in the same industry work 23.6 hours and earn an average annual salary of $17,752.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Beauty salons Industry Group are Flushing, Murray Hill & Whitestone PUMA, NY, Ocean County (Northwest) PUMA, NJ, and Hawthorne Borough & Clifton City (Northwest) PUMA, NJ.

The workforce of Beauty salons Industry Group in 2020 was 698,704 people, with 90.2% woman, and 9.81% men.

In 2020, 70.4% of the workforce in the Beauty salons Industry Group was White (491,990 people), of which 91.7% were women and 8.33% 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 698,704 people and is concentrated in California (77,948 workers). The average annual salary was $26,837, being $29,117 less than the national average salary, which was $55,954.

Monthly Employment

Showing data for the Other Services industry sector.

Start Year

Y-Axis

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).

Employment by Location

The states that concentrated the largest workforce in 2020 were California (77.9k), Florida (59k), and Texas (56.3k).

This map shows the states in the United States shaded by workforce for Beauty salons Industry Group.

Yearly Wage Ranking

In 2020, Beauty salons Industry Group had an average annual wage of $26,837, $29,117 less than the average national salary of $55,954.

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

Wage Distribution

0.41

WAGE GINI

Beauty salons has a wage GINI of 0.41, which is less than than the national average of 0.478. 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.

Occupations

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

Hairdressers, hairstylists, & cosmetologists are the most common position with 536,531 workers, but the Beauty salons Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Manicurists and pedicurists and Receptionists & information clerks.

The highest average salary in Beauty salons goes to Chief executives & legislators.

Occupations Distribution

The graph shows the distribution of employees in the Beauty salons Industry Group according to occupations. In 2020, the occupations that concentrated the largest number of employees in this industry were hairdressers, hairstylists, & cosmetologists (536,531 people), manicurists and pedicurists (35,035 people), and receptionists & information clerks (30,255 people)

Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

$38,889

AVERAGE MALE SALARY

±$4,367

$25,526

AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY

±$748

On average, Male workers in the Beauty salons Industry Group make 1.52 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.

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 New York 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.

Intermediate Inputs

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

HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY

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.

Use of Output by Other Industries

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

LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY

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.

Establishments

States with more establishments in 2016

California
14,334
New York
13,808
Florida
12,368

The charts shows the distribution of establishments in the Beauty salons industry by states and the number of establishments according to size.

Diversity

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

Of the total workforce, 90.2% corresponds to women and 9.81% men. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $38,889 and $25,526.

84.1% of workers have a high school or equivalent, some college or associates degree.

Gender and Age

630,139

Women

90.2%

68,565

Men

9.81%

The workforce of Beauty salons industry in 2020 was 698,704 people, with 90.2% woman, and 9.81% men.

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

Races

In 2020, 70.4% of the workforce in the Beauty salons industry was White (491,990 people), of which 91.7% were women and 8.33% men.

Other races that concentrated a significant number of workers were Black and Asian.

Educational Levels

The main educational levels achieved by the Beauty salons workers in 2020 were high school or equivalent (295,366 people), some college (215,609 people), and associates degree (76,913 people).

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