Economics & margins
Nail salon operating margin (2024)
US nail salons with paid employees kept 20.1% of their revenue after operating expenses in 2024, and between 16.2% and 27.2% in every year since 2013.
Wages took 30.5% of nail salon revenue in 2024, against 43.6% at beauty salons, which is most of the gap. Census coefficient of variation 5% for revenue and 4.7% for expenses.
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Sources
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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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