Booking software for hair salons in Washington

There were 1,747 employer beauty salons across the Washington metro, and the mid-sized band is notable: 242 had ten to nineteen staff, almost as many as the 263 with five to nine. That points to a lot of salons running sizable teams. For a team that size, the problems are coordination problems, such as matching stylists to services and covering the gaps when a client cancels, which is where per-stylist calendars and a waitlist come in.

The metro behind these numbers spans twenty-three counties across District of Columbia and Maryland and Virginia and West Virginia, including District of Columbia, Charles County and Frederick County, so it reaches well beyond Washington. The barbershop count for the same metro was 206, about 8.5 salons to each shop. County Business Patterns leaves out anyone without paid employees, so independent stylists add to the real total.

The largest county counts were Fairfax County at 387, Montgomery County at 271 and Loudoun County at 165. Fairfax County alone holds 22 percent of the metro total. By headcount, 1,157 had under five staff, 263 had five to nine, 242 had ten to nineteen, 83 had twenty to forty-nine. Washington's 1,747 sits nearest to Dallas-Fort Worth, which had 1,791. With 6,345,881 people in the 2023 population estimate, Washington has about 27.5 per 100,000, 13 of 20 metros.

Inside the District, salons deal with the DC Board of Barber and Cosmetology, which also covers specialized areas such as braiding, electrolysis, esthetics and manicuring, and which lists 1500 hours for barbers and cosmetologists.