Booking software for barbershops in Los Angeles

Los Angeles is a big metro with a modest employer barbershop count: 235, or 1.8 per 100,000 people, among the lowest of the twenty. Read that as a sign of how the trade is organized here rather than a lack of barbers, since solo operators and chair renters without payroll are outside the count. Shops that do employ people skew a little larger than average, with 30 in the ten-to-nineteen bracket, tied with Dallas-Fort Worth for the most in that bracket.

Census defines this metro as Los Angeles County and Orange County, so the numbers here run past the Los Angeles city limits. There were 3,689 beauty salons with employees in the same metro, about 15.7 for every barbershop on the list. Part of that gap is how barbering works: CBP only counts establishments with paid employees, so a barber who rents a chair or works alone with no payroll does not show up. Among the 20 most populous US metros, Los Angeles ranks 5 by barber shops count.

Los Angeles County had 175 and Orange County had 60, so Los Angeles County holds 74 percent of the metro total. Sorted by staff numbers, 179 had under five staff, 21 had five to nine, 30 had ten to nineteen, 5 had twenty to forty-nine. Of the 20 most populous metros, the closest count to Los Angeles's 235 is Philadelphia's 241. Elsewhere in CA: Riverside-San Bernardino 71, San Francisco Bay 70, San Diego 81.

Barbers in Los Angeles answer to the California Board of Barbering and Cosmetology, which describes its job as licensing and regulating the state's barbering and beauty industry.