Labor & staffing
1.18M
US personal appearance workforce
Nearly 1.18 million professionals worked in US personal appearance occupations in 2021, an 85% female workforce, including 713,000 hairdressers/cosmetologists, 103,000 barbers and 363,000 other personal appearance workers.
85% of these workers are women vs 47% of the overall US workforce, per PBA analysis of BLS data.
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Economic Snapshot of the Salon Industry, October 2022
Professional Beauty Association (PBA)/2022/report
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