Economics & margins
Barbershop operating margin (2024)
US barber shops with paid employees kept 25.1% of their revenue after operating expenses in 2024; the middle year since 2013 was 16.3%.
Barbershops with payroll are a small group (7,025 locations in 2022), so single-year figures carry a wide survey error: coefficient of variation 5.7% for revenue and 4.8% for expenses in 2024.
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Annual Integrated Economic Survey: 2024 (US file AIES00BASIC, NAICS 812111, 812112, 812113, 812199)
US Census Bureau/2024/gov
Service Annual Survey: 2022 release, Tables 2 and 3 (revenue and expenses of employer firms, 2013 through 2022)
US Census Bureau/2022/gov
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