Beauty salons

Industry Group

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Workforce

699k

2020 ACS Estimate

Average Employee Age

39.4

Average Salary

$26,837

Average Male Salary

$38,889

Average Female Salary

$37,215

About

The top three occupations in the Beauty salons Industry Group are Hairdressers, hairstylists, & cosmetologists, Manicurists and pedicurists, Receptionists & information clerks, Supervisors of personal care and service workers, and Skincare specialists. 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, Margate & Coconut Creek Cities PUMA, FL, and West Hollywood & Beverly Hills Cities PUMA, CA. The industry that purchases the most products or services from the Hospitals Industry Group is Beauty salons.

Photo by Mohd Fazlin Mohd Effendy Ooi

A snapshot of jobs, wages, and opportunities in the Beauty salons Industry Group. Hairdressers, hairstylists, & cosmetologists are the most common position, but the Beauty salons Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Hairdressers, hairstylists, & cosmetologists, compared to other industries.

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

Monthly Employment

Showing data for the Other Services industry sector.

Start Year

Y-Axis

14.9%

Year-over-year growth

Employment change between May 2020 and May 2021

As of May 2021, there are 5.31M people employed in the Other Services industry. This represents a 14.9% increase in employment when compared to May 2020.

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

Occupations by Share

699k

Workforce (ACS Estimate)

± 20.5k

−1.77%

1 Year Growth

± 4.2%

According to ACS estimates, the number of people employed in the Beauty salons Industry Group has been declining at a rate of −1.77%, , from 711k people in 2019 to 699k people in 2020.

The following graphic shows the share of employment in Beauty salons by various occupations according to ACS estimates. Hairdressers, hairstylists, & cosmetologists represent the largest share of positions held in Beauty salons at 76.8%, followed by Manicurists and pedicurists with 5.01% and Receptionists & information clerks with 4.33%.

Most Common

The most common occupations in the Beauty salons Industry Group, by number of employees, are Hairdressers, hairstylists, & cosmetologists, Manicurists and pedicurists, Receptionists & information clerks, Supervisors of personal care and service workers, and Skincare specialists.

Most Specialized

Compared to other Industry Groups, Beauty salons employs an unusually high number of Hairdressers, hairstylists, & cosmetologists, Skincare specialists, and Other personal appearance workers.

Highest Paid

The highest paid occupations in Beauty salons, by average wage, are Chief executives & legislators, Marketing managers, and Human resources workers.

Average Salary

$26,837

AVERAGE WAGE

± $808

On average, employees in the Beauty salons Industry Group make $26,837 per year. This number makes Beauty salons the 255 highest paying Industry Group in the United States out of a total of 269 Industry Groups.

Wage by Location

HIGHEST PAYING PUBLIC USE MICRODATA AREA

HIGHEST PAYING PUMAS

This map shows which public use microdata areas (PUMAs) pay the highest average salary to employees in the Beauty salons Industry Group.

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).

Spatial Concentration

Public Use Microdata Areas with RCA

This map shows the PUMAs in the United States that have revealed comparative advantage in the Beauty salons Industry Group.

These are locations that employ more people in the Beauty salons Industry Group than expected given both the size of that location's overall labor pool and the national size of the Beauty salons Industry Group.

Diversity

Demographic information on the Beauty salons Industry Group in the US. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $38,889 and $37,215. So too tend to earn more than other races and ethnicities in this industry.

Composition by Sex

630k

FEMALE WORKFORCE

±19.4k

68.6k

MALE WORKFORCE

±6.43k

90.2% of workers in the Beauty salons Industry Group are Female, making them the more common sex in the workforce. This chart shows the sex breakdown of the Beauty salons Industry Group.

Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

$38,889

AVERAGE MALE SALARY

±$4,367

$37,215

AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY

±$4,215

On average, Male workers in the Beauty salons Industry Group make 1.04 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.

Wage by Race & Ethnicity in Common Jobs

RACE OR ETHNICITY WITH THE HIGHEST AVERAGE SALARY

Alaska Native
American Indian and Alaska Native tribes specified; or American Indian or Alaska Native, not specified and no other races
White

On average, Alaska Native employees in the Beauty salons Industry Group earn 1.92 times more than other races and ethnicities. This chart shows the race and ethnicity-based wage disparities in the 5 most common occupations in the Beauty salons Industry Group.

Input/Output

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. 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.

Industrial Flow

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

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.