Salon Research
Short data studies about the salon business in Los Angeles County, built from public government data. Every figure names its source and period, and each study comes with a free CSV of the numbers behind it.
More Salons, Fewer Employees: Los Angeles County Beauty Salons, 2019 to 2025
Los Angeles County had 2,636 beauty salons with a payroll in 2025, 20.0% more than in 2019, but 13.6% fewer salon jobs: 3.0 jobs per salon, down from 4.2.
Read the study →Statistics · November 13, 2026Hair Salon Statistics: Los Angeles County
2,636 beauty salons with employees (2025), 26,449 with none (2024), and a $20.91 median hourly wage for hairstylists on a payroll in the Los Angeles metro area (May 2025).
Read the page →How we work
We use public data from federal agencies, download the original files, and compute every number with a script, so each figure can be traced back to its source table. Each page states its period, its method and what the data cannot show. We do not claim causes the data does not record.
These pages are written by Salon 11:11, a one-stylist studio suite in Hermosa Beach. They describe the industry, not any single salon, and they are not a ranking.
Sources used
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW), county data files ↗ (Annual averages, 2019 to 2025)
- U.S. Census Bureau, Nonemployer Statistics (NES) ↗ (2019 to 2024)
- U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns (CBP) ↗ (2019 and 2023)
- U.S. Census Bureau, NAICS 812112 Beauty Salons definition ↗ (2022 NAICS)
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) ↗ (May 2025)
Using our data
You may reuse our tables, charts and CSV files under CC BY 4.0: credit Salon 11:11 and link to the page you used.
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