Labor & staffing
Self-employment rate vs overall workforce
In 2021, 33% of US personal appearance professionals were self-employed, compared with only 7% of the overall US workforce, reflecting the prevalence of booth-rental and independent models in beauty.
The structural driver behind booth-rental and salon-suite arrangements.
This figure is load-bearing across 13 pages on SalonAI. See where, below.
Source
Where this number comes from. The end of the reference chain.
Economic Snapshot of the Salon Industry, October 2022
Professional Beauty Association (PBA)/2022/report
Where this number is used
Every page on SalonAI that leans on this figure. This is the point: a number is not a dead end, it is a node, and you can see exactly what it supports and follow it up the hierarchy.
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Deep-dive pages (10)
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