Booking software for hair salons in Philadelphia

Philadelphia is the big-salon metro of the twenty. Of 2,170 employer beauty salons, only 55 percent had fewer than five staff, the lowest share in the set, while 350 had ten to nineteen and 105 had twenty to forty-nine. When salons are that size, the booking system has to carry a lot of stylists with different hours and services at once, and clients need to see the specific person they want.

Census builds the Philadelphia metro from eleven counties, reaching into Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, so think of these as regional figures rather than a city count. Barbershops with employees numbered 241 across the same counties, so there were about 9.0 beauty salons for each one. CBP counts only establishments with paid employees, which means booth renters and solo stylists without staff sit outside these numbers. On that count Philadelphia is the fifth largest of the 20 most populous US metros.

Philadelphia County led with 443, ahead of Montgomery County (404) and Bucks County (290). Philadelphia County alone holds 20 percent of the metro total. Sorted by staff numbers, 1,199 had under five staff, 502 had five to nine, 350 had ten to nineteen, 105 had twenty to forty-nine, 13 had fifty to ninety-nine. Philadelphia's 2,170 sits nearest to Boston, which had 2,025. Against the metro's 2023 population estimate of 6,280,902, that is about 34.5 per 100,000 residents, 6 of 20 on that measure.

On the Pennsylvania side, the State Board of Cosmetology regulates cosmetology, esthetics and nail technology through licensure, registration, certification and discipline.