Booking software for barbershops in San Diego

San Diego County is the whole metro, and it had 81 employer barber shops in 2023, about 2.5 per 100,000 residents. Seventy-nine percent had fewer than five staff and 11 had five to nine. With beauty salons outnumbering employer barbershops by more than ten to one, a large share of local barbering clearly runs outside payroll businesses, and those independent barbers benefit most from a booking page of their own. Ten-to-nineteen-person shops are rare here, with just 3, and 11 sat at five to nine. For a shop of that size, every barber keeping their own hours on one calendar is the difference between a full day and an awkward afternoon. Barbershops in this county are outnumbered by its 847 employer salons.

Those counts are for the full San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA metro, made up of San Diego County. The same data shows 847 beauty salons, or about 10.5 per barbershop. Keep in mind that County Business Patterns covers only establishments with paid employees, and plenty of barbers work as one-person businesses. That places San Diego 17 of the 20 most populous US metros by barber shops count.

Because the metro is a single county, every one of those 81 sits in San Diego County. By headcount, 64 had under five staff, 11 had five to nine, 3 had ten to nineteen. Census does not publish every size class for this metro, so the classes shown may not add up to the total. Of the 20 most populous metros, the closest count to San Diego's 81 is Minneapolis-St. Paul's 78. Elsewhere in CA: Los Angeles 235, Riverside-San Bernardino 71, San Francisco Bay 70.

San Diego barbers work under the California Board of Barbering and Cosmetology, whose stated mission is to ensure the health and safety of California consumers by promoting ethical standards and enforcing the laws of the barbering and beauty industry.