Booking software for hair salons in Minneapolis

The Twin Cities metro counted 1,133 employer beauty salons, and it has one of the more team-heavy salon markets: only 61 percent were small, while 241 had five to nine staff and 139 had ten to nineteen. For teams of that size, the useful things are simple: each stylist bookable on their own hours, and reminders that cut missed appointments.

The metro behind these numbers spans fifteen counties across Minnesota and Wisconsin, including Anoka County, Carver County and Chisago County, so it reaches well beyond Minneapolis. The barbershop count for the same metro was 78, about 14.5 salons to each shop. County Business Patterns leaves out anyone without paid employees, so independent stylists add to the real total. By establishment count it ranks 16 among the 20 most populous US metros.

The largest county counts were Hennepin County at 464, Ramsey County at 138 and Dakota County at 117. Hennepin County alone holds 41 percent of the metro total. By headcount, 687 had under five staff, 241 had five to nine, 139 had ten to nineteen, 56 had twenty to forty-nine, 9 had fifty to ninety-nine. Minneapolis-St. Paul's 1,133 sits nearest to Tampa Bay, which had 1,140. With 3,722,476 people in the 2023 population estimate, Minneapolis-St. Paul has about 30.4 per 100,000, 9 of 20 metros.

Minnesota law requires an individual license to practice as a cosmetologist, hair technician, esthetician, nail technician, eyelash technician, manager or instructor, and sets licenses on a three-year period.