Barber shops

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Workforce

728k

2018 BLS Estimate

Average Employee Age

39.5

Estimated Job Growth

1.1%

10-Year Projection

Average Salary

$27,718

Average Male Salary

$29,062

Average Female Salary

$24,242

About

The top three occupations in the Barber shops Industry Group are Barbers, Hairdressers, hairstylists, & cosmetologists, Supervisors of personal care and service workers, and Receptionists & information clerks. On average, full-time employees in the Barber shops Industry Group work 43.8 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $30,750. Part-time employees in the same industry work 23.6 hours and earn an average annual salary of $16,947.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Barber shops Industry Group are Ahwatukee & South Mountain PUMA, AZ, Carr 2-Carr 111 PUMA, PR, and Forest Hills & Rego Park PUMA, NY. The industry that purchases the most products or services from the Hospitals Industry Group is Barber shops.

Photo by Thomas Gehrke

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Workforce

A snapshot of jobs, wages, and opportunities in the Barber shops Industry Group. Barbers are the most common position, but the Barber shops Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Barbers, compared to other industries.

The highest average salary in Barber shops goes to Supervisors of personal care and service workers.

Occupations

Occupations by Share

728k

Workforce (BLS Estimate)

ACS Estimate: 83.3k

17.7%

1 Year Growth

± 10.7%

The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that there were 728k people employed in the Barber shops Industry Group in 2018.

According to ACS estimates, the number of people employed in the Barber shops Industry Group has been growing at a rate of 17.7%, , from 70.8k people in 2017 to 83.3k people in 2018.

The following graphic shows the share of employment in Barber shops by various occupations according to ACS estimates. Barbers represent the largest share of positions held in Barber shops at 86.4%, followed by Hairdressers, hairstylists, & cosmetologists with 7.54% and Supervisors of personal care and service workers with 3.11%.

Wages

Average Salary

$27,718

AVERAGE WAGE

± $1,698

On average, employees in the Barber shops Industry Group make $27,718 per year. This number makes Barber shops the 249 highest paying Industry Group in the United States out of a total of 269 Industry Groups.

Wage by Location

HIGHEST PAYING PUBLIC USE MICRODATA AREA

HIGHEST PAYING PUMAS

This map shows which public use microdata areas (PUMAs) pay the highest average salary to employees in the Barber shops Industry Group.

Wage Distribution

0.349

WAGE GINI

Barber shops has a wage GINI of 0.349, which is less than than the national average of 0.479. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Barber shops (shown in red) in comparison to the national average for those wage buckets (shown in gray).

Opportunities

Spatial Concentration

Public Use Microdata Areas with RCA

This map shows the PUMAs in the United States that have revealed comparative advantage in the Barber shops Industry Group.

These are locations that employ more people in the Barber shops Industry Group than expected given both the size of that location's overall labor pool and the national size of the Barber shops Industry Group.

Diversity

Demographic information on the Barber shops Industry Group in the US. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $29,062 and $24,242. So too tend to earn more than other races and ethnicities in this industry.

Gender Composition

23.2k

FEMALE WORKFORCE

±3.74k

60.1k

MALE WORKFORCE

±6.02k

72.1% of workers in the Barber shops Industry Group are Male, making them the more common gender in the workforce. This chart shows the gender breakdown of the Barber shops Industry Group.

Wage by Gender in Common Jobs

$29,062

AVERAGE MALE SALARY

±$2,019

$24,242

AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY

±$3,067

On average, Male workers in the Barber shops Industry Group make 1.2 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the gender-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Barber shops Industry Group.

Wage by Race & Ethnicity in Common Jobs

RACE OR ETHNICITY WITH THE HIGHEST AVERAGE SALARY

Black
White
Other

On average, Black employees in the Barber shops Industry Group earn 1.16 times more than other races and ethnicities. This chart shows the race and ethnicity-based wage disparities in the 5 most common occupations in the Barber shops Industry Group.

Input/Output

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Barber shops Industry Group. Based on estimates from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, this section indicates the amount of money spent by a specific industry in other industries. Manufacturing has the highest single input, by dollars, to the Barber shops Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Barber shops Industry Group is Professional and business services.

In this visualization, click on a category to expand or collapse it. All of the industries listed to the left are those places from which the highlighted industry has made purchases. They are the intermediate inputs to the highlighted industry. All those industries listed on the right side are those industries that have made purchases from the highlighted industry. They are the use of outputs of the highlighted industry. The visualizations below offer alternative ways to see and understand this data.

Industrial Flow

The closest comparable data for Barber shops is from Other Services, Except Public Administration.

Intermediate Inputs

The closest comparable data for Barber shops is from Other Services, Except Public Administration.

HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY

The Barber shops Industry Group gets the most input, by its share of the cost of all intermediate inputs, from the Manufacturing Industry. This visualization does not include labor and capital costs.

Use of Output by Other Industries

The closest comparable data for Barber shops is from Other Services, Except Public Administration.

LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY

The Professional and business services Industry purchases the greatest share of products and services from the Barber shops Industry Group in order to produce other goods and services. Purchases of the Barber shops Industry Group for final consumption by consumers, businesses, or government are not included here.

Projections

Growth projections of the personal care services industry, both by number of employees and output, from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics. The national workforce is projected to grow 6.89% in the next ten years. The personal care services industry has a lower projected workforce growth at 1.1%. Its projected 10-year growth in output (1.8%) is lower than the projected national growth in output (22.9%).