Barbershop Video Statistics

Key takeaways

1. Barber educators and creators posted 53.5% of YouTube's 200 most-viewed 'fade haircut' videos and drew 29.6% of their views; barbershop business channels that name a U.S. location drew 2.9% (our read, Nov 2026). (Mark Studios) See details
2. Videos of 60 seconds or less were 68.0% of that sample and drew 80.6% of its views. (Mark Studios) See details
3. None of the 12 barbershop chain, booking app and clipper brand channels we found had a video in the sample; the four booking apps' videos of the past year had a median of 164.5 views. (Mark Studios) See details
4. None of the 223 location pages we read from eight barbershop and men's grooming chains embedded a video player a visitor can start (0.0%); 53.8% linked a YouTube channel and 100.0% offered online booking or check-in (our read, Nov 2026). (Mark Studios) See details
5. Florida's licence file listed 21,670 active barber and restricted barber licences and 5,294 barbershop licences on Oct 31, 2026, 17.5 times as many barber licences as Florida employers report barbers on payroll (our count). (Mark Studios) See details
6. Most barbers work for themselves: 79.9% were self-employed in 2025, Census counted 154,456 barber shops with no employees in 2024, and those businesses took 71.6% of all barber shop receipts in 2022. (BLS, U.S. Census Bureau) See details
7. Census puts U.S. barber shop receipts at $5,853,504 thousand in 2022, employer and nonemployer shops together; repeaters quote anything from $4.9 billion (a paid IBISWorld estimate) to $81 billion with no source. (U.S. Census Bureau, Research and Markets, The Spot Barbershop) See details
8. Florida cut its barber training minimum from 1,200 to 900 hours from January 1, 2021; across 12 states the minimum runs from 750 hours (Virginia) to 1,800 (Michigan and Ohio). (Florida Legislature, state legislatures and boards) See details
9. The consumer price index for haircuts and other personal care services rose 44.8% from 2015 to 2025, against 35.8% for all items. (BLS) See details
10. No survey we found measured the 'every 2-4 weeks' barbers quote; in a 2015 trade-press survey stylists guessed 3.8 weeks between men's cuts and men reported 5.1 weeks. (Wise Barber, Salon Today) See details

Who makes the most-watched fade haircut videos on YouTube?

Barbers do, mostly as creators rather than as shops selling cuts: barber educator and creator channels posted 53.5% of the 200 most-viewed "fade haircut" videos on YouTube on November 3, 2026 (our count). Those channels are run by barbers who teach or show cuts and offer no cuts in their channel description; they drew 29.6% of the views (our count). Barber and barbershop business channels, a shop or working barber whose channel offers cuts or names its shop, posted 13.0% of the videos and drew 46.1% of the views (our count). We read the YouTube Data API at 17:02 UTC and asked for the 200 most-viewed results for the one query "fade haircut", with no region or language filter. This is one query on one day: the day's search quota ran out before a second query ("barber") could run, so the sample follows YouTube's own ranking, is not a census of barber video, and can change by the hour. The request set no region; YouTube's response reported the region as the United States, so the ranking may lean to U.S. viewers. The 200 results were 200 distinct videos from 112 channels (our count), and we classified every channel by hand from its title, its description and the titles of its videos in the sample.

One German barbershop skews the business share. Ali friseur, a barbershop channel in Münster, posted 5 of the 200 videos and drew 28.8% of all the views (our count); its 60-second before-and-after clip from March 2023 had 383,179,436 views, 18.9% of the sample's total on its own (our count). With a second German channel, Asmar Anwar, whose description is only a street address in Offenbach am Main, the two German channels drew 40.2% of the views from 6 videos (our count). Leaving them out, the other 13 barber business channels drew 6.0% of the views (our count). Business channels whose class rests on a clear offer or a named shop, rather than on thin evidence, drew 33.4% (our count), and barbershops and hair salons together drew 50.0% (our count). The most prolific channel was a barber creator: MartyBlendz posted 27 of the 200 videos and drew 5.8% of the views (our count), while 84 of the 112 channels had a single video in the sample (our count).

Attention is concentrated. The 10 most-viewed videos drew 50.6% of the views (our count). The median video had 3,585,308 views, 194 of the 200 had at least 1 million, and together the 200 had 2,032,321,501 views (our count). YouTube view counts include views from ads. Class calls that rest on thin evidence (no or minimal channel description) cover 31 videos, which drew 19.9% of the views (our count).

How many of the most-watched fade haircut videos come from U.S. barbershops?

Very few: barber business channels that name a U.S. location posted 5 of the 200 most-viewed "fade haircut" videos on November 3, 2026 and drew 2.9% of their views (our count). They are five barbers with one video each, in the Atlanta area, Edgewater NJ, Everett WA, Beverly Hills and Los Angeles; four of them link a booking or appointment page in their description. Counting barber educators who name the U.S. city or shop where they work, such as a barbershop owner in Dallas who teaches barbering fundamentals and a barber filming full-length tutorials at a shop in Vacaville CA, U.S. barber channels posted 18 of the videos and drew 5.9% of the views (our count).

Channels that list the United States as their country, a self-declared setting, posted 39.5% of the videos and drew 20.6% of the views (our count); 34.5% came from channels that list no country, and 9.5% from channels that list India. Barbers who sell courses, mentorship or coaching to other barbers posted 18 of the videos and drew 4.8% of the views (our count), and barber schools and academies drew 1.5%. The channels behind the sample are large: the median barber or barbershop business channel had 304,000 subscribers and the median barber educator or creator channel 112,000 (our count); across all 112 channels the median was 137,000, and 22 had 1 million or more (our count).

How long and how old are the most-watched fade haircut videos?

Mostly under a minute: 68.0% of the 200 most-viewed "fade haircut" videos on November 3, 2026 ran 60 seconds or less, and they drew 80.6% of the views (our count). These are duration bands from the API, which has no Shorts flag, so "60 seconds or less" stands in for Shorts. Videos of 3 minutes or less made up 77.5% of the sample and drew 92.6% of the views, and the median video ran 51 seconds (our count). Long tutorials are a small slice: videos over 10 minutes made up 12.5% of the sample (25 videos, most of them titled as tutorials or step-by-step guides) and drew 3.5% of the views (our count). The median video of 60 seconds or less had 3,855,298 views, against 1,783,870 for videos of 3 to 10 minutes (our count). The median video had 19.4 likes per 1,000 views (our count).

The ranking favours videos that have had time to collect views. The 46 videos published in 2023 drew 50.7% of the views (our count). 58.0% of the videos were published in 2024 or later, but only 5.0% (10) in the 365 days before the read, and those drew 7.3% of the views (our count). The median video was 891.5 days old (our count).

How do barbershop chains, booking apps and clipper brands do on YouTube?

Their channels are small next to the barbers' and none reached the sample: None of the 12 organisation channels we found had a video among the 200 most-viewed "fade haircut" results on November 3, 2026 (our count). We looked for the official channel of 15 organisations: three hair salon chains (Sport Clips, Supercuts and Great Clips, labelled salons), three barbershop franchises (Floyd's 99 Barbershop, Roosters Men's Grooming Center and The Gents Place), five booking and shop software firms (Squire, Booksy, theCut, Fresha and Vagaro), three clipper and tool brands (Wahl Professional, Andis and BaBylissPRO) and the National Association of Barber Boards of America, the association of state barber boards. We found no official channel for 3 of the 15: Supercuts, Fresha and the barber boards' association. Together the 12 channels posted 715 videos in the 12 months to November 3, 2026, with a median of 752 views each; 69.2% ran 60 seconds or less (our count).

Wahl Professional posts the most: 229 videos in the year, with a median of 1,215 views each, and 86.8% of Andis's 38 videos ran 60 seconds or less (our count). Great Clips posts short clips too: 93.5% of its 92 videos in the year ran 60 seconds or less (our count). The four booking-software channels found (Squire, Booksy, theCut and Vagaro) posted 224 videos with a median of 164.5 views (our count); theCut had the highest median of the four and Vagaro posted the most. The Gents Place had the largest organisation channel, though its 78 videos of the year had a median of 782 views. Two linked channels are dormant: the BaBylissPRO channel linked from its website has posted nothing since November 2018, and Roosters' channel holds 4 videos, all from December 2015.

How we found the channels: through a YouTube link on the organisation's own website where one existed, read with curl and, where curl got an empty app shell, a headless browser. Wahl Professional's site returned a bot-check page, so its link comes from an Internet Archive copy of October 21, 2026. Vagaro's website disallows AI crawlers in its robots.txt, so we did not read it; the @vagaroapp channel's description names Vagaro.com. Squire's and Booksy's websites link no YouTube channel; the @getsquire and @booksybiz channels match the Instagram names their websites link. The Gents Place links no channel, but the video embedded on its homepage belongs to @thegentsplace. Supercuts' website links no channel and the handle lookups found none. Fresha's website links none, and the @teamfresha channel that matches its Facebook name is an unrelated 2011 vlog. The barber boards' association's homepage video belongs to a web developer's channel. Subscriber counts are rounded by YouTube, and view counts include views from ads. The channels table lists the route for each.

What do barbershop chain location pages show?

Booking and walk-in promises, not video. On November 3, 2026, 100.0% of the 223 U.S. location pages of eight barbershop and men's grooming chains that we read offered online booking or online check-in, and only 5.8% showed any video (our count). We read the pages in a headless browser, up to 40 per brand, drawn at random from each brand's own sitemap listing. Every page with video was a The Gents Place page playing a muted YouTube clip with no controls (5.8% of all pages). 0.0% of the 223 pages embedded a video player a visitor can start, on YouTube or anywhere else.

Video sits on the national homepage instead. 4 of the eight brands' homepages showed a video: Fellow Barber embeds a YouTube player, Floyd's 99 Barbershop an HTML5 video, and V's Barbershop and The Gents Place play muted background clips (our count). On the local pages, social video platforms appear only as links. 53.8% of the pages linked to a YouTube channel: every Floyd's, Sport Clips and V's page, from the footer, and no page of the other five brands. 36.8% linked to TikTok (Floyd's, V's and Tommy Gun's Original Barbershop), 96.0% to Facebook and 100.0% to Instagram (our count).

Most chains hand booking to a software vendor. 81.2% of the pages named or embedded a third-party booking system: MyTime on 35.9% (every Floyd's and V's page), Zenoti on 35.4% (Bishops and Hammer & Nails), Meevo on 5.8% (The Gents Place) and Boulevard on 4.0% (Fellow Barber). The remaining 18.8%, every Sport Clips and Tommy Gun's page, sent visitors to the brand's own online check-in and its app. No sampled page named Squire, Booksy, Vagaro, Fresha or Square (our count). A page that loads a system shows which software the chain's template uses, not what each shop uses for every service.

Walk-ins and prices depend on the brand. 74.4% of the pages said walk-ins are welcome, or that no appointment is needed, in the shop's own wording; customer reviews that mention walk-ins do not count. 54.3% showed a dollar price for a service or a membership (our count).

Shares are of the pages read per brand: 40 each for Floyd's, Hammer & Nails, Sport Clips and V's, and every page of the other four (our count, November 3, 2026). Sport Clips lists its stores through the store-locator behind the state pages of its sitemap. Prices include service menus, Sport Clips' haircut price or price range and member prices; discounts, gift cards, shipping offers and prices quoted in customer reviews do not count. The Floyd's pages carry dollar figures only inside customer reviews.

Barbers appear by name on one brand's pages. 15.7% of all pages had a section introducing the barbers or stylists, and all of them were Floyd's pages: 87.5% of the sampled Floyd's pages show a card for each barber or stylist with a name, a short bio and a booking button (our count). 16.6% of the pages showed or linked a gallery or lookbook of cuts, all of them Floyd's or Tommy Gun's pages. V's pages show a grid of shop photos rather than cuts.

Recruiting is on every page, mostly in the menu. 100.0% of the pages linked to careers or jobs or carried hiring wording, and 38.1% carried an explicit "we're hiring" line (Sport Clips, Fellow Barber and most Floyd's pages). Membership or club wording appeared on 23.8%, every Hammer & Nails and The Gents Place page; both chains print member prices or a club plan (our count).

This is a sample of eight chains' templated pages, not of independent barbershops. Each brand fills its location pages from one template, so most features are all or nothing within a brand, and pooled shares mostly describe eight templates rather than choices made by local shop owners. The sampled pages were in 32 states and DC (our count). 3 of the 11 chains first considered could not be read: 18|8 Fine Men's Salons' robots.txt answered with a bot challenge, and Roosters Men's Grooming Center and Supercuts, the unisex-salon comparison, have no sitemap (their /sitemap.xml returns the web app's page). Each page was read once and every feature is a rule match on the rendered page. A hand-check of 30 randomly drawn pages agreed on 100.0% of flag values after the rule fixes listed in the method notes (our calculation). The read says nothing about the video these brands post on YouTube, Instagram or TikTok.

How many barber shops are there in the U.S.?

About 8,500 U.S. barber shops had employees in 2025, and about 154,000 barber businesses had none in 2024. BLS's census of employers averaged 8,547 private barber shop establishments (NAICS 812111) with workers covered by unemployment insurance in 2025 (BLS QCEW), up from 4,434 in 2015 (BLS QCEW), a rise of 92.8% (our calculation). The Census Bureau's County Business Patterns counted 7,789 barber shop establishments with paid employees in 2023 (U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns), and the 2022 Economic Census counted 7,025 establishments run by 6,370 firms (U.S. Census Bureau, 2022 Economic Census). The three employer counts differ because each uses a different register and year.

Most barber businesses have no payroll at all. The Census Bureau counted 154,456 nonemployer barber shops in 2024 (U.S. Census Bureau, Nonemployer Statistics): businesses with no paid employees that file a federal business tax return with at least $1,000 in receipts. A nonemployer is a tax filer, not a storefront, so a barber who rents a chair and files as a sole proprietor is counted here even if they work inside someone else's shop.

How big are barber shops?

Most are very small: of the 7,789 U.S. barber shops with paid employees in 2023, 5,884 had fewer than five employees (U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns). Private barber shops employed an annual average of 35,340 workers in 2025 (BLS QCEW), against 20,350 in 2015 (BLS QCEW), up 73.7% (our calculation). That is 75.5% of employer shops with fewer than five employees in 2023 (our calculation).

Barber shops with employees took in $1,663,159 thousand in 2022 (U.S. Census Bureau, 2022 Economic Census), up from $1,048,147 thousand in 2017 (U.S. Census Bureau, 2017 Economic Census), a rise of 58.7% before inflation (our calculation). Nonemployer barber shops reported a further $4,190,345 thousand in receipts in 2022 (U.S. Census Bureau, Nonemployer Statistics) and $5,070,906 thousand in 2024 (U.S. Census Bureau, Nonemployer Statistics). Added together, U.S. barber shops took in $5,853,504 thousand in 2022, and businesses with no employees took 71.6% of it (our calculation from the two Census programs). In 2024 a nonemployer barber shop averaged $32,831 in receipts (our calculation): most are one barber's income, not a shop's. For comparison, beauty salons with employees (NAICS 812112) took in $25,664,020 thousand in 2022 (U.S. Census Bureau).

No chain dominates: the four largest barber shop firms took 10.2 percent of employer barber shop receipts in 2022 (U.S. Census Bureau, 2022 Economic Census),. Chains that cut mostly men's hair can sit outside NAICS 812111: Regis, which runs Supercuts and Roosters, says its stylists are licensed cosmetologists (see the chains section below).

What do barber shops sell?

Haircuts: hair cut and styling services made up 90.0 percent of the receipts of U.S. barber shops with employees in 2022 (U.S. Census Bureau, 2022 Economic Census product lines). Retail is a side line: 14.6 percent of these shops reported selling personal hygiene supplies, a line worth 1.4 percent of the industry's receipts (U.S. Census Bureau).

Booth and chair rent shows up as its own product line. Renting booths and chairs to other workers made up 1.2 percent of employer barber shop receipts in 2022, and 374 establishments (5.3 percent) reported it (U.S. Census Bureau). That line counts the rent shop owners collect, not the barbers who pay it; most chair renters file as nonemployers.

How fast have haircut prices risen?

Faster than prices overall from 2015 to 2025. The BLS consumer price index for haircuts and other personal care services averaged 150.813 in 2015 (BLS CPI-U) and 218.402 in 2025 (BLS CPI-U), a rise of 44.8%, while the all-items index went from 237.017 (BLS CPI-U) to 321.943 (BLS CPI-U), a rise of 35.8% (our calculations). Prices for haircuts and other personal care services were 3.7 percent higher in September 2026 than a year earlier (BLS CPI-U). The haircut index covers barbers and salons alike, so it is not a barber-only price.

How many licensed barbers and barbershops are there in Florida?

Florida had 21,670 active barber and restricted barber licences and 5,294 active barbershop licences on October 31, 2026, by our count of the public licence file of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) for the Barbers' Board (our count). The individual licences split into 13,401 full barber licences and 8,269 restricted barber licences, so 38.2% of active individual licences were restricted. That works out to 4.1 individual barber licences for every barbershop licence. The file holds 17.5 times as many active individual licences as Florida employers reported wage and salary barbers on their payrolls in May 2025 (1,240), and 6.0 times as many barbershop licences as BLS counted Florida barber shops with employees in 2025 (884) (our calculations, different dates): most licensed barbers work for themselves, rent a chair or do not cut hair as their main job, and most licensed shops have no payroll. We counted licences, not people or shops: the file holds active, inactive and voluntarily inactive licences and leaves out delinquent and null-and-void ones. Individual barber licences came up for renewal on July 31, 2026, so most barbers who had not renewed by then are no longer in the October file.

By the county code on each licence record, 1,340 active barber and restricted barber licences carried a Palm Beach County code, 1,803 Broward and 85 Martin, together 14.9% of the state total (our count). Miami-Dade had the most, 3,191. For barbershops the counts were 313 in Palm Beach, 575 in Broward and 33 in Martin, together 17.4% of Florida's active shop licences, against 841 in Miami-Dade. The county code is the address DBPR holds for the licence; for an individual barber that is often a home or mailing address, not the shop.

New licences have grown since the late 2010s. Of the barber and restricted barber licences active in October 2026, 748 were first issued in 2015, 939 in 2019, 1,098 in 2021 and 1,886 in 2025 (our count). Florida cut the training hours for a barber licence in 2020. These counts include only licences that are still active, so older years are undercounted and the rise overstates growth in new barbers. 674 of the active barbershop licences were first issued in 2025. The median active barber licence was 6.9 years past its original licensure date.

DBPR's own annual report counted 29,220 active Barbers' Board licences in fiscal year 2023-24 (DBPR annual report 2023-24). The report does not split barbers, restricted barbers and shops, and its count includes suspended licences in active status. Counted the same way, the October 2026 file holds 27,186 active barber, restricted barber and barbershop licences (our count). The two counts are close in definition but not identical: the report does not give the date of its count, and the 2026 file was produced three months after a renewal deadline.

The report's total rose 38.7% from 2018-19 to 2023-24 (our calculation), but not in a straight line. Barber licences in Florida run on a two-year renewal cycle, and DBPR does not say when in each fiscal year it took its count, so some of the year-to-year change may be timing.

How often does Florida inspect barbershops and act on complaints?

DBPR inspectors completed 3,120 barbershop inspections in fiscal year 2023-24 (DBPR annual report 2023-24), after 3,206 in 2022-23 (DBPR annual report 2022-23), 2,530 in 2021-22 (DBPR annual report 2021-22) and 2,986 in 2018-19 (DBPR annual report 2018-19). The reports say establishments are inspected on a two-year cycle, with re-inspection of shops that fall short. These are counts of inspections, not of shops.

DBPR received 665 complaints about Barbers' Board licensees in fiscal year 2023-24 and issued 307 final orders (DBPR annual report 2023-24). In 2022-23 it received 765 complaints and issued 182 final orders (DBPR annual report 2022-23); in 2018-19, 666 complaints and 405 final orders (DBPR annual report 2018-19). Complaints about unlicensed barbering are counted separately.

How many licensed barbers are there in Texas, New York and Colorado?

Texas had 26,160 current Class A Barber licences in the licence data of the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR), updated October 19, 2026 (our count). The data also lists recently expired licences, which we left out. 4,213 of the current licences had a Harris County mailing address and 3,163 a Dallas County one; the five largest counties held 46.5% of the state total. TDLR's data has no separate barbershop licence: shops are listed as full-service, mini or mobile establishments, licence types shared with beauty salons, so barbershops cannot be counted directly. 5,265 current establishment licences had the word barber in the business name, 11.2% of all barber and beauty establishments (our count). That misses barbershops with other names.

New York State had 13,628 active licensed barbers and 2,673 active barber apprentices on November 3, 2026, by our count of the Department of State's open licence data (our count). It had 4,370 active barbershop owner licences and 189 barber area renter licences, the licence for a barber who rents space in another's shop. 504 of the shop licences were first issued in 2025.

Colorado had 4,192 active barber licences on November 3, 2026, by our count of the Department of Regulatory Agencies' licence data (our count), and 371 of them were first issued in 2025. Colorado registers barbershops and beauty salons together, so its shops cannot be counted separately. The four states license barbers differently, so their totals are not directly comparable.

How many barbers are there in the U.S.?

Between 15,000 and 141,000 in 2025, depending on who counts and how. BLS's employer survey found 15,000 barbers (SOC 39-5011) on employers' payrolls in May 2025 (BLS OEWS). That count leaves out the self-employed, who are most barbers. BLS Employment Projections, which adds the self-employed, estimates 75.8 thousand barber jobs in 2025 (BLS Employment Projections). The Current Population Survey, a monthly household survey, counted 141 thousand employed people whose main job was barber in 2025 (BLS Current Population Survey); a household survey picks up people a payroll count and a jobs model can miss, but its estimates for a small occupation carry large sampling error.

How many barbers work for themselves?

Most of them: 79.9 percent of U.S. barbers were self-employed in 2025, according to BLS Employment Projections (BLS Employment Projections). That is why the Census Bureau's count of 154,456 nonemployer barber shops in 2024 is far larger than any count of shops with employees.

What do barbers earn?

The median wage and salary barber earned $38,210 in May 2025, (BLS OEWS), and the mean was $47,070 (BLS OEWS). These figures cover only barbers on a payroll and include tips only where the employer reports them as wages; the earnings of chair renters and shop owners are not in them. Hairdressers, hairstylists and cosmetologists had a median of $35,790 (BLS OEWS), so the barber median was 6.8% higher (our calculation).

Pay at barber shops has risen. Workers on the payrolls of private barber shops, barbers and other staff together, averaged $39,421 in 2025 (BLS QCEW), up from $23,492 in 2015 (BLS QCEW), a rise of 67.8% before inflation (our calculation).

Who works as a barber?

Barbers are mostly men: in 2025, 17.7 percent of employed barbers were women, 29.0 percent were Black or African American and 43.4 percent were Hispanic or Latino (BLS Current Population Survey, table 11). Hispanic or Latino people may be of any race, so the shares overlap.

What is the job outlook for barbers?

Slow growth: BLS projects barber employment to grow 3.3 percent from 2025 to 2035 (BLS Employment Projections), against 3.5 percent for all occupations (BLS). It expects about 6.9 thousand openings a year, a figure that includes replacements for barbers who leave the trade or retire (BLS Employment Projections).

The faster figure often quoted for barbers belongs to a larger group. The Occupational Outlook Handbook projects 7 percent growth from 2025 to 2035 for barbers, hairstylists and cosmetologists together (BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook), a group in which hairstylists hold most of the jobs. Hairdressers, hairstylists and cosmetologists alone are projected to grow 7.7 percent over the same years (BLS Employment Projections).

How many barber shops are there in Florida?

Florida averaged 884 private barber shop establishments with employees in 2025 (BLS QCEW), up from 418 in 2015 (BLS QCEW), a rise of 111.5% (our calculation). Florida had 10.3% of the country's barber shops with employees in 2025 (our calculation). They employed an annual average of 2,021 workers, who earned an average of $38,222 (BLS QCEW). Barber shops with employees in the state took in $108,791 thousand in 2022 (U.S. Census Bureau, 2022 Economic Census).

As in the country as a whole, most Florida barber businesses have no payroll. The Census Bureau counted 16,492 nonemployer barber shops in Florida in 2024 (U.S. Census Bureau, Nonemployer Statistics), with receipts of $606,728 thousand (U.S. Census Bureau), or $36,789 each (our calculation). Florida had 10.7% of U.S. nonemployer barber shops (our calculation).

BLS's employer survey found 1,240 wage and salary barbers in Florida in May 2025, (BLS OEWS), with a median annual wage of $49,410 (BLS OEWS), 29.3% above the U.S. median (our calculation). Like the national figure, that count leaves out self-employed barbers and chair renters.

How many barber shops are in Palm Beach, Broward and Martin counties?

Broward County averaged 106 barber shop establishments with employees in 2025, Palm Beach County 74 and Martin County 7 (BLS QCEW): 187 together, 21.2% of Florida's (our calculation). Far more barber businesses in these counties have no employees: the Census Bureau counted 1,866 nonemployer barber shops in Broward, 1,002 in Palm Beach and 40 in Martin in 2024 (U.S. Census Bureau, Nonemployer Statistics), 2,908 together, 17.6% of Florida's (our calculation).

Average pay for Martin County is left out because its 20 barber shop jobs are too few for a stable average. For wages by occupation, BLS publishes the metro area, not the county. Employers in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach metro area (Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties) had 340 wage and salary barbers in May 2025, with a median annual wage of $36,300 (BLS OEWS). BLS publishes no barber wage estimate for the Port St. Lucie metro area, which includes Martin County.

How many Supercuts and other Regis salons are there?

Regis Corporation franchised or owned 3,712 salons in North America, mainly in the United States, at June 30, 2026, by its own count in its fiscal 2026 annual report to the SEC (Regis 10-K). Supercuts was the largest brand, with 1,634 franchised salons plus 95 company-owned ones (Regis 10-K), followed by 984 SmartStyle and Cost Cutters salons inside Walmart Supercenters (Regis 10-K) and 763 franchised Portfolio Brands salons, the group that includes Roosters Men's Grooming Center (Regis 10-K). These are hair salons that cut men's hair, not licensed barber shops: Regis says its stylists are licensed cosmetologists (Regis 10-K), and it describes Supercuts as a concept for men, women and children.

The chain is shrinking. Regis counted 7,145 locations in 2019 (Regis 10-K 2019) and 5,576 in 2022, both totals including equity-interest locations (Regis 10-K 2022): from 2019 to 2026 the count fell 48.0% (our calculation). In fiscal 2026 franchisees closed 207 salons (Regis 10-K) and built 8 (Regis 10-K). Supercuts fell from 2,340 franchised locations in 2019 (Regis 10-K 2019) to 2,264 in 2022 (Regis 10-K 2022) and 1,634 in 2026, down 27.8% from 2022 (our calculation). In December 2024 Regis bought the operator Alline Salon Group and its 314 Supercuts, Cost Cutters and Holiday Hair salons; 261 were still open in June 2026 (Regis 10-K).

How much do Regis salons sell, and how much goes to advertising?

Sales across all Regis franchised and company-owned salons were $1,066.3 million in fiscal 2026 (July 2025 to June 2026), down from $1,104.9 million a year earlier (Regis 10-K). Same-store sales rose 0.9% across the system, with Supercuts up 3.0% and SmartStyle down 4.5% (Regis 10-K). Regis puts the average service price at $27 to $39 per transaction (Regis 10-K).

Franchisees paid $21,392 thousand into Regis's brand advertising funds in fiscal 2026 (Regis 10-K), against $32,573 thousand in fiscal 2022 (Regis 10-K 2022), a drop of 34.3% (our calculation). Total advertising costs, including company-owned salons' contributions and corporate advertising, were $22,674 thousand in fiscal 2026 (Regis 10-K), down from $68,583 thousand in fiscal 2019, when Regis still owned thousands of its salons (Regis 10-K 2019).

Regis names booth rentals, independent salons and in-home hair services as competition, alongside Great Clips, Fantastic Sams, Sport Clips and Ulta Beauty (Regis 10-K). Every Regis salon has run on the Zenoti salon software since August 2024, and its mobile apps show guests wait times (Regis 10-K). Regis says its apps and online check-in let guests check in ahead, pick a stylist and see predicted waits for walk-ins (Regis 10-K).

How many shops do the barber and men's grooming franchises have, and what do they sell?

Sport Clips is the largest of the men's haircut franchises covered here, with 1,788 stores at the end of 2025, down from 1,860 at the end of 2023, according to the Item 20 tables of its 2026 franchise disclosure document filed with the Minnesota Department of Commerce (Sport Clips FDD). Its franchisees must follow state rules for hair care or cosmetology businesses, so it is a men's hair salon chain rather than a barber shop chain. The barbershop-branded franchises are far smaller: Floyd's 99 Barbershop had 143 shops at the end of 2025 (Floyd's 99 FDD), V's Barbershop 62 (V's FDD) and Bishops 40 (Bishops FDD). Hammer & Nails, a men's grooming shop chain, grew from 20 to 59 shops between the start of 2023 and the end of 2025 (Hammer & Nails FDD), while Regis's Roosters Men's Grooming Center fell to 65 franchised shops at June 30, 2026, from 82 three years earlier (Roosters FDD).

Source: each franchisor's 2026 franchise disclosure document (Items 6, 11, 19 and 20) from Minnesota's public CARDS database. The sales figures are the franchisors' own Item 19 representations of unaudited franchisee sales; each covers only the shops the franchisor chose to include, and franchisors sell franchises. The Gents Place, 18|8 Fine Men's Salons, Tommy Gun's Original Barbershop and Fellow Barber had no disclosure document in that database, so they are left out.

Openings and closings sit side by side. Sport Clips franchisees opened 14 stores in 2025 while 18 franchises were not renewed and 26 stores ceased operating (Sport Clips FDD). Florida had 98 franchised Sport Clips stores at the end of 2025 (Sport Clips FDD). Floyd's 99 is split almost evenly: 72 franchised shops and 71 run by affiliates of the franchisor (Floyd's 99 FDD), and its 68 mature company-owned shops averaged $882,181 in 2025 (Floyd's 99 FDD).

What do the franchise documents say about barber licences and advertising?

Floyd's 99 requires each franchised shop to employ at least one licensed barber and one licensed cosmetologist (Floyd's 99 FDD). It warns that in some states, including Massachusetts, Kentucky and Nevada, barbering and cosmetology boards may restrict the use of the word "barbershop" (Floyd's 99 FDD).

The Sport Clips Advertising Fund spent 89.3% of its 2025 disbursements on consumer advertising, which it says includes media, sports sponsorships, web and social platforms and app development, and 7.1% on administration (Sport Clips FDD). The fund also pays social media influencers, directly or through talent agencies (Sport Clips FDD).

How often do SEC annual reports mention barbershops and barbers?

Rarely, and less than before: 5 Form 10-K annual reports filed with the SEC in 2025 used "barbershop" or "barber shop" (singular or plural), against 16 in 2005, by our count of exact phrases by filing year in EDGAR full-text search (our count). The count peaked at 23 in 2015. Across the 25 filing years 2001-2025, 306 10-Ks used one of the four phrases (our count). The 2025 filers were three health care and senior-housing REITs (CareTrust, LTC Properties and National Healthcare Properties), the senior-care operator Selectis Health and Bright Mountain Media; the REITs and Selectis list barber shops among facility amenities or tenants.

Source: our count from EDGAR full-text search, published as a CSV with this page. Unlinked cells come from the same CSV.

"Barbers" is mostly a name in these filings. It appeared in 3 10-Ks in 2025, from Hawaiian Electric, Regis and Vail Resorts, and the hits over the years are largely Barbers Point in Hawaii, Barbers Hill in Texas and Regis's subsidiary The Barbers, Hairstyling for Men & Women, Inc. (our count). "Booth rental" appeared in only 1 10-K in 2025, Regis's, which lists booth rental facilities among its competitors; the peak was 4 a year in 2016 and 2017, when the other filers included a small salon company and two firms renting trade-show booths (our count). "Men's grooming" peaked at 7 filings in 2021 and was back to 3 in 2025, from Edgewell Personal Care, Estee Lauder and Regis: grooming-product makers and a salon franchisor, not barbers (our count).

The counts measure wording, not activity. EDGAR full-text search covers filings from 2001 and counts each 10-K once however often it uses a phrase. It misses private barbershops and franchisors such as Sport Clips, Great Clips and Floyd's 99, which do not file 10-Ks, foreign filers on Forms 20-F and 40-F, and 10-K/A amendments. Year means filing year, so 2025 mostly covers fiscal 2024 reports.

How do barbershop clients book their haircuts, and when?

Most book themselves. In SQUIRE's State of Barbershops 2026 report, which covers 13.9M appointments at about 7K U.S. shops on its platform from May 2025 to April 2026, about 2 in 3 bookings were made by customers through self-service, and about 25% of those self-service bookings came in between 6 pm and midnight (SQUIRE). SQUIRE sells booking and payments software to barbershops, and its shops are not a random sample of U.S. barbershops.

The cuts themselves have moved into the working day. SQUIRE reports that 92% of weekday cuts on its platform now happen between 8am and 5pm, and that the peak weekday hour moved from 5pm before COVID to 4pm, which now holds 12.06% of weekday cuts (SQUIRE). SQUIRE does not give the exact years of its pre- and post-COVID comparison.

Other booking apps report the same after-hours habit, with weaker methods. When Booksy announced its Instagram booking button in May 2018, it said 60% of client-booked appointments on its platform were made outside working hours, and that clients who booked themselves made 20-30% more appointments (Booksy). Fresha's barbershop software page says 41% of bookings through its marketplace are made outside business hours (Fresha). Neither company gives a sample size, period or country for these figures, and both sell to barbers.

How often do barbershop clients come back?

A little under half of visits are repeat visits. On SQUIRE's platform from May 2025 to April 2026, 44.63% of all visits came from a client who had been to the same shop before, and about 48% of clients booked only once (SQUIRE). Clients who did come back waited an average of 48.5 days between visits.

The same report puts the average barber on SQUIRE at 94.2 appointments a month, and shops filled 62% of their scheduled barber-hours (SQUIRE). SQUIRE measures utilization against each barber's 90th-percentile availability, so empty chair time is counted only when a barber was on the schedule.

Booking apps also sell no-show tools and report their own results. SQUIRE says shops using its Book & Pay deposit feature protected an average of $4,300+ a month in 2025, without defining "protected" or saying how many shops used it (SQUIRE). Booksy reported in 2021 that providers had 20% fewer cancellations a month after turning on its No-Show Protection settings, a before-and-after comparison with no control group (Booksy).

What do barbershops' online reviews look like?

High ratings are close to universal in big cities. SQUIRE scraped Google reviews for 17,913 barbershops in the 25 largest U.S. metros by shop count and found 83% rated 4.5 stars or above, and 37% rated 4.9 to 5.0 (SQUIRE). In Miami, Tampa and Orlando, 45%+ of shops rated 4.9 or above. SQUIRE does not give the date of the scrape or the shop count for each metro.

Review volume varies more than star ratings. SQUIRE says shops using an automated review request collected 84% more reviews on average than shops that asked by hand, and 117% more in the top 10 U.S. metros (SQUIRE). SQUIRE sells the review tool being compared, and the comparison is observational, not a test.

What do booking apps report about haircut prices and tips?

The average haircut booked through SQUIRE in the U.S. cost $43 from May 2025 to April 2026, excluding tax and tip (SQUIRE). Regional averages ranged from $35 in the Midwest to $45 in the West, with the South and Northeast at $40. In the Northeast, the average tip was 20% (SQUIRE). The price figures include owner-added fees such as card surcharges, and they describe shops that use SQUIRE, which skew toward appointment-based shops.

How much do people watch haircut videos, and how do shops use digital tools?

Haircut tutorials spiked when shops closed in 2020. Google reported in December 2020 that average daily views of YouTube videos with "haircut" and "home" or "how to" in the title rose by over 220 percent after mid-March 2020 (Google). The figure counts title matches only and gives no base volume, end date or country.

Shops now reach clients through several channels. SQUIRE says the average shop on its platform used 3+ customer-facing channels, and that 57.98% of its shops (excluding independent barbers) used its AI features in the report period (SQUIRE). SQUIRE does not say which channels it counts. We found no booking platform or social platform that has published a dated, U.S. count of barbers posting video, or of bookings that started from a video post.

What do booking platforms publish about booth rent, commission and barber workloads?

Workload, yes; the booth-rent and commission split, no. The one measured workload figure a barber booking platform publishes is SQUIRE's: barbers on its platform averaged 94.2 appointments a month from May 2025 to April 2026, in shops that filled 62% of scheduled barber-hours. SQUIRE sells software to barbershops, and its report counts only shops that use it.

SQUIRE, Booksy and Fresha all sell booth-rent collection or commission payout tools, and their guides describe typical splits with worked examples. None of the guides we read gives a measured share of barbers who rent a booth versus work on commission, a sample size or a survey date, so we do not print their example splits as statistics. The government counts of self-employed barbers and of nonemployer barber shops appear in the sections on workers and businesses.

What do barber schools and accreditors publish about barber students?

We found no national barber enrolment count on a readable page from the school accreditor NACCAS or from the National Association of Barber Boards of America. NACCAS collects graduation, placement and licensure rates by school and programme, and individual schools publish those rates in their own disclosures, but NACCAS does not post a national barbering total that we could cite. Licence counts from state barber boards appear in the registry section.

How often do men get haircuts?

The average U.S. man gets his hair cut 10 times per year, according to a survey of 2,000 American men that Talker Research ran online from July 23 to July 28, 2025 (Talker Research). Sport Clips Haircuts, a men's haircut franchisor that sells into this market, commissioned it. The same men said they had kept the same hairstyle for seven years on average (Talker Research).

The figure is self-reported, comes from an opt-in online sample and does not separate barber shops from salons. Sport Clips is a men's hair salon chain rather than a barber shop chain (see the chains section). No 2023 to 2026 haircut-frequency figure from a pollster without a stake in the market turned up in this research, so the Talker Research number is the only recent measured one.

How many Americans cut their hair at home?

In March 2024, 18% of U.S. adults said they always have their hair cut at home, by themselves or by someone they live with, and 37% said they never do, in a YouGov survey of 4,521 adults on March 7, 2024 (YouGov). Asked about earlier periods in the same survey, 17% said they always had home haircuts before the COVID-19 pandemic (YouGov) and 21% said so for the pandemic years (YouGov). By that measure, the pandemic shift toward home haircuts has mostly unwound.

During the 2020 lockdowns the change was sharp. YouGov found that 15 percent of U.S. adults had had a home haircut since lockdown began as of April 1, 2020 (YouGov), and 28% by late May 2020, in a poll of more than 6,000 adults (YouGov). Men were about twice as likely as women to have had one: 38 percent of men against 18 percent of women (YouGov). By January 2021, 60% of more than 3,500 U.S. adults polled by CivicScience said they were comfortable getting a haircut, or expected to be within 2 to 3 weeks, the highest comfort level of any personal care service asked about (CivicScience). Men were readier than women, at 64% against 56% (CivicScience).

How many customers tip their barber?

Most do. In Pew Research Center's survey of 11,945 U.S. adults (August 7 to 27, 2023), 78% of adults who get haircuts said they always or often tip when they do, second only to sit-down restaurants among the seven services asked about (Pew Research Center). That includes 65% who said they always tip (Pew Research Center). Pew's question covers any haircut and does not separate barbers from salons.

Bankrate's annual survey, run online by YouGov, asks only about "always" tipping and groups hair stylists with barbers. It found that 55 percent of adults who use them always tipped in 2024 (2,445 U.S. adults, April 29 to May 1, 2024) (Bankrate) and 54 percent in 2025 (Bankrate), down from a high of 66 percent in 2022 (Bankrate). Bankrate's 2025 page repeats the 2024 sample description, so its 2025 sample size and field dates are not clear. A separate YouGov poll of 1,000 U.S. adult citizens in May 2023 found that 65% of Americans who are ever in a position to tip hairdressers or barbers normally do so (YouGov).

Age and gender split the answers widely. In Bankrate's 2025 survey, 25 percent of Gen Z adults who use hair stylists or barbers said they always tip, against 71 percent of baby boomers (Bankrate). Among people who visit hair salons or barber shops, 45 percent of men always tip, against 62 percent of women, the widest gender gap of any service in the survey (Bankrate).

What do men say they pay for a haircut?

The most recent national figure from a survey that publishes its method is more than a decade old. In a Harris Poll survey of U.S. men for Dollar Shave Club, a razor and grooming-products seller, fielded from November 2014 to January 2015, men said they spent $13.20 on a haircut on average (Dollar Shave Club). The release does not say whether tips are included, and the figure is in 2014-2015 dollars.

How do men choose and stay with a barber?

Most men stick with one person. In the July 2025 Talker Research survey for Sport Clips, 57% of 2,000 U.S. men said they have a specific person they go to for haircuts (Talker Research). YouGov's 2018 Omnibus survey found that 38% of U.S. adults always see the same person for a haircut (YouGov), with men at 39% (YouGov). Loyalty rises with age: 48% of adults over 55 always see the same barber or stylist, against 25% of 18- to 24-year-olds (YouGov).

Asking for a change is harder. In the Talker Research survey, 21% of men said they feel nervous asking their stylist or barber for a new hairstyle (Talker Research), and 36% said they have had success by showing a reference photo of the cut they want (Talker Research). The consumer surveys on how people book (online, by phone or as walk-ins) found in this research were run by booking-software companies, which sell into the market, and are reported with the platform data.

What happens when barbershops show health videos?

Videos in barbershops change what men say they know and intend more reliably than what they do. In a randomized trial in Black-owned barbershops in New York, 1,353 participants watched a generic, a culturally targeted or an individually tailored organ donation video (Journal of Health Communication). The targeted video raised willingness to donate more than the generic one (odds ratio 1.74), but neither the targeted nor the tailored video raised actual donor registration.

The Shape Up! trial in Philadelphia had barbers deliver HIV and sexually transmitted infection risk-reduction sessions by iPad to 618 African-American men aged 18 to 24 in 24 matched pairs of barbershops (Journal of Adolescent Health). The intervention had no significant direct effect on consistent condom use (odds ratio 1.13), though the authors found indirect effects through beliefs and self-efficacy.

Smaller studies point the same way. The W.O.R.D. on Prostate Cancer video, filmed in a barbershop with barbers and prostate cancer survivors, was tested with 143 Black men in Florida and raised prostate cancer knowledge and intention to be screened (Ecancermedicalscience). In the UK, a prostate cancer genetics study co-created a barbershop-set awareness video with seven men of African or African-Caribbean ancestry and shared it in a Black History Month social media campaign (Research Involvement and Engagement); that project did not measure effects.

Can barbers' health posts reach people on social media?

A 2024-2025 pilot in Tennessee suggests they can reach a large audience, though the counts are estimates. In Cutting Out Stigma, an HIV stigma programme that combined barbershop education with study and barber-made social media posts, 50 trained barbers in 26 barbershops took part from September 2024 to March 2025 (Journal of the International AIDS Society). Their estimated social media reach averaged 57,462 users a month, and barbers made an estimated 3,096 referrals, mostly for HIV testing and PrEP. The pilot had no control group.

What did the Los Angeles barbershop blood pressure trial find?

It is the strongest evidence that barbershop health programmes can change a clinical outcome, and it did not use video. The Los Angeles Barbershop Blood Pressure Study (published in 2018) enrolled, from 2015 to 2017, 319 Black men with uncontrolled hypertension from 52 Black-owned barbershops; barbers encouraged visits with pharmacists who met patrons in the shops and prescribed medication (New England Journal of Medicine). At 6 months, mean systolic blood pressure fell by 27.0 mm Hg in the pharmacist group and by 9.3 mm Hg in the control group, and 63.6% of the pharmacist group reached below 130/80 mm Hg, against 11.7% of controls (New England Journal of Medicine). At 12 months, 68.0% of the pharmacist group were below 130/80 mm Hg, against 11.0% of controls (Circulation).

Video entered later, as a way to cut costs. In a 10-man follow-up pilot, pharmacist visits moved to videoconference once a patron reached his blood pressure goal; in-person visits fell from 11 in the original trial to 6.6 over 12 months, and 67% of the nine completers (6 of 9) were at or below 130/80 mm Hg (Journal of the American Heart Association). The pilot had no control group.

How much research is there on barbershop health programmes?

Not much that meets trial standards. A 2021 systematic review found 14 experimental or quasi-experimental studies of chronic-disease interventions for African American adults in U.S. barbershops and hair salons; Ten were in barbershops (BMC Public Health). Cancer was the most studied condition, in 50% of the studies, followed by hypertension. An earlier review of barber-administered programmes, covering the literature to 2013, abstracted 16 articles and found barbershops a suitable place for health materials in print and media formats, with outcomes that were not consistently documented (Journal of Community Health).

Barbershops also work as a recruiting point for programmes run by phone. In the MISTER B trial, 731 Black men aged 50 and over were recruited at New York City barbershops from 2010 to 2013; 17.5% of those given telephone patient navigation completed colorectal cancer screening within 6 months, against 8.4% in the comparison arm (American Journal of Public Health). We found no peer-reviewed U.S. study that measured whether a health video shown in barbershops changed a clinical outcome such as blood pressure or cancer screening rates.

How many training hours does Florida require for a barber licence?

Florida requires at least 900 hours of training for a barber licence by examination under the 2026 Florida Statutes, covering sanitation, safety, and laws and rules at a licensed barber school, a public-school programme or a government-run programme (Fla. Stat. 476.114). Applicants must be at least 16 years old (Fla. Stat. 476.114). A school may certify a student to sit the examination early after 600 actual school hours, but a student who fails must finish the full course before retaking it (Fla. Stat. 476.114).

The 900-hour floor dates from 2020. Chapter 2020-160, Laws of Florida (CS/HB 1193, a broad deregulation bill), cut the minimum from 1,200 hours to 900 (Laws of Fla. ch. 2020-160, s. 29) and the early-examination threshold from 1,000 school hours to 600 (Laws of Fla. ch. 2020-160, s. 29). Both changes took effect on January 1, 2021 (Laws of Fla. ch. 2020-160).

The Barbers' Board's curriculum rule repeats the 900-hour minimum for every qualifying course (Fla. Admin. Code R. 61G3-16.001). The course splits into 500 hours of practical training in barbering skills and 400 hours of classroom and lab work (Fla. Admin. Code R. 61G3-16.001). The largest single block is 270 hours of safety, sanitation and sterilization, ahead of 225 hours of Florida laws and rules and 135 hours of haircutting (Fla. Admin. Code R. 61G3-16.001).

What is Florida's restricted barber licence?

Florida law lets a person apply for a restricted license that limits practice to the services the applicant has shown competence in (Fla. Stat. 476.144). Under the board's rule, a restricted barber course must provide at least 600 hours of training, and the licence covers haircutting and styling without chemicals, shaving, beard and mustache trimming, and shampooing (Fla. Admin. Code R. 61G3-16.006). Schools that taught a restricted course of at least 1,200 hours on January 1, 2020 could keep offering it only through December 31, 2020 (Fla. Admin. Code R. 61G3-16.006).

Florida's barber rules credit apprenticeship hours in only one place. An applicant licensed in another country or a U.S. territory can be licensed by endorsement after 900 hours of comparable schooling or an apprenticeship programme of 900 hours (Fla. Admin. Code R. 61G3-16.005). The statute gives in-state candidates no apprenticeship route to the full licence.

Who runs barber licensing in Florida, and how often do licences renew?

Florida's Barbers' Board has seven members appointed by the Governor; five must be barbers with at least 5 years of practice in Florida and two must be citizens who are not licensed barbers (Fla. Stat. 476.054). The state must offer the licensing examination, which includes a written test, not less than four times each year (Fla. Stat. 476.134). Barber licences renew biennially (Fla. Stat. 476.154), and each renewal in active status requires a board-approved HIV/AIDS course of at least 2 hours (Fla. Admin. Code R. 61G3-16.0091).

What does Florida require of a barbershop?

No barbershop may operate in Florida without a licence from the Department of Business and Professional Regulation, and a shop licence cannot pass to a new owner (Fla. Stat. 476.184). Moving a licensed shop needs a department inspection and a $125 transfer fee (Fla. Stat. 476.184). The statute caps barbershop application, licensing and renewal fees at $150 each (Fla. Stat. 476.192).

Barber services must be performed by licensed barbers in registered barbershops, with exceptions for clients too ill to travel and for film, fashion, theatre, television, trade-show and seminar work (Fla. Stat. 476.188). Chapter 2021-218, Laws of Florida (HB 855), added one more: since July 1, 2021 a barber may shampoo, cut or arrange hair outside a registered shop without booking it through one (Laws of Fla. ch. 2021-218).

The board's shop rule sets the floor plan. A barbershop needs at least 100 square feet of floor space, not counting the toilet and sink, plus 40 square feet for each additional barber working at the same time (Fla. Admin. Code R. 61G3-19.011). A one-chair shop as small as 75 square feet is allowed only if it has no waiting area, does not advertise and has no telephone listing (Fla. Admin. Code R. 61G3-19.011). A shop may also run at a place of residence if a permanent wall and a separate entrance divide it from the living quarters (Fla. Admin. Code R. 61G3-19.011).

How does Florida check barbershop sanitation?

Florida's Department of Business and Professional Regulation inspects barbershops biennially on a random, unannounced basis, and each shop must post its latest inspection report by the front entrance or in the waiting area (Fla. Admin. Code R. 61G3-19.015). A shop closed for 30 days or longer must be reinspected before it reopens.

The sanitation rule requires tools to be cleaned and then immersed in an EPA-registered hospital disinfectant for one to five minutes; an ultraviolet cabinet on its own does not meet the standard (Fla. Admin. Code R. 61G3-19.011). The same rule requires hand washing before every client, a clean neck strip or towel for each client, closed containers for hair and used towels, and at least one shampoo bowl with hot and cold running water.

What are the penalties for unlicensed barbering in Florida?

In Florida, practising barbering without an active licence, hiring an unlicensed barber or running an unlicensed shop is a misdemeanor of the second degree (Fla. Stat. 476.194). The Barbers' Board can also impose an administrative fine of up to $500 for each count (Fla. Stat. 476.204). Its disciplinary guidelines set a fine of up to $250 for a first case of practising without an active licence and up to $500 and revocation for repeat cases (Fla. Admin. Code R. 61G3-21.001).

How does Texas regulate barbers, booth renters and mobile shops?

Texas has regulated barbering and cosmetology under one chapter of the Occupations Code since September 1, 2021, when H.B. 1560 took effect (Tex. Occ. Code ch. 1603). Since August 1, 2023, the Class A barber curriculum has been 1,000 clock hours, the same length as the cosmetology operator course (16 TAC 83.202). Of those hours, 300 are barber specialty practice: razor shaving, mustache and beard care, and advanced men's haircutting (16 TAC 83.202). Applicants must be at least 17 and pass written and practical examinations (16 TAC 83.200). Before August 2023 Texas also licensed barber technicians after a 300-hour course (16 TAC 82.120).

The statute tells the licensing commission to consider whether each requirement is the least restrictive one that still protects public safety without creating a barrier to entry (Tex. Occ. Code 1603.2001). Licensees renew with at least 4 hours of continuing education, including 1 hour on sanitation (16 TAC 83.25).

Texas has no separate booth-rental permit. A barber who leases space in a licensed shop as an independent contractor must hold an individual licence, and the shop must keep a list of its contractors for inspectors (Tex. Occ. Code 1603.2201). The state licenses a Mobile establishment, a readily movable facility where barbering is practised away from a fixed location (Tex. Occ. Code 1603.2203). It also regulates services booked through a digital network and performed away from a licensed shop (Tex. Occ. Code 1603.208). Inspectors may enter any licensed place of business at any time during business hours (Tex. Occ. Code 1603.104).

How many training hours does each state require to become a barber?

Across the 12 states below, the school-hour minimum for a full barber licence in 2026 runs from 750 clock hours in Virginia to 1,800 hours in Michigan and Ohio, according to each state's own statute or board rule. Florida and New Jersey sit near the bottom at 900 hours; Georgia, Illinois and Tennessee require 1,500 hours, and North Carolina 1,528 hours plus a year as an apprentice. The figures are minimums set in law. Schools may run longer courses, and several states also license a narrower barber or technician credential with fewer hours.

Florida shows how fast the numbers move. Its minimum was 1,200 hours until the 2020 deregulation law took effect on January 1, 2021, when it fell to 900. Texas folded barbering into its cosmetology chapter in 2021 and since August 2023 sets one 1,000-hour length for the Class A barber and cosmetology operator courses. Illinois will add an apprenticeship route in 2027, and Michigan already treats 1,800 hours as an apprentice the same as 1,800 hours in a barber college. North Carolina is the only state in the table that requires both school and an apprenticeship. It also licenses mobile barbershops, whose owners must give the state barber board a written monthly itinerary of locations, dates and hours before each month starts so inspectors can find them (G.S. 86B-30).

New York, Pennsylvania, Washington and Colorado are not in the table because their official statute or rule pages could not be read for this page: New York's pages refused automated requests, the Pennsylvania Code and Colorado rule sites block AI crawlers, and Washington's legislature site disallows all crawlers.

How many barber apprentices are registered?

This research found no U.S. Department of Labor page that prints a national count of registered barber apprentices as of November 2026. The department lists barber (O*NET 39-5011.00) as an occupation approved for Registered Apprenticeship, but its apprentice and program counts sit in interactive dashboards on apprenticeship.gov that do not publish a readable figure by occupation, so this page does not report one.

State law decides whether an apprenticeship counts toward a barber licence at all. Between 2017 and 2022, 15 states cut the days of education and experience they require for a barber licence, according to the Institute for Justice, an advocacy group that litigates against occupational licensing (Institute for Justice). In one of those changes, Massachusetts dropped an 18-month apprenticeship for barbers and now asks for 1,000 hours of schooling (Institute for Justice).

What did the federal and national licensing studies find about barbers?

All 51 jurisdictions the Institute for Justice studied (the 50 states and D.C.) licensed barbers in 2022, in its License to Work 3 report (Institute for Justice). The group, which campaigns for lighter licensing, estimated that a barber licence took an average of 319 calendar days of required education and experience, with average fees of $167 and two exams (Institute for Justice). By its count, the burden ran from 68 days in New York to 896 days in Nevada (Institute for Justice), and fees ran from $25 in Washington to $500 in Kentucky, not counting tuition (Institute for Justice). On its combined measure of how widely an occupation is licensed and how heavy the average burden is, barber ranked 6th worst of 102 lower-income occupations (Institute for Justice). IJ data were collected between February 2020 and March 2022; the days figures are IJ's conversion of required hours into calendar days, not a government statistic.

The July 2015 White House report on occupational licensing, written by the Treasury Department, the Council of Economic Advisers and the Labor Department, named barbers among the occupations licensed in some states and put the share of the U.S. workforce in a state-licensed occupation at about 25 percent, up from less than 5 percent in the early 1950s (White House 2015). Citing a 2010 study by Thornton and Timmons, it said certain licensing provisions raise barbers' earnings by between 11 and 22 percent compared with unlicensed workers with similar education (White House 2015). The report notes that such wage gaps do not show how much comes from gains to licensed workers and how much from people kept out of the trade.

The Institute for Justice also relays a 2021 study that found only about 25% of barber and cosmetologist curricula, on average, teach health and safety (Institute for Justice). That figure is IJ's summary of the study, not a count this page checked at the original.

What the popular barbershop numbers really say

Five numbers turn up again and again in barber marketing, booking-software blogs and statistics roundups. Most of them go back to a paid market-research estimate, an older survey, an older edition of a government projection or one vendor's test, and some have no source at all. We traced each one as far back as we could and read what the source actually measured.

"The barbering industry is worth $X billion"

The U.S. figures that repeaters use, from $4.9 billion to $7.0 billion a year, come from IBISWorld, a company that sells paid industry reports, and they change with every edition. IBISWorld's estimate is modelled and its method sits in the paywalled report. The 2023 edition, as relayed by the report reseller Research and Markets, put barber shop revenue at an estimated $4.9 billion through the end of 2023 (Research and Markets). The October 2024 edition put it at an estimated $5.8 billion through the end of 2024 (IBISWorld, archived). IBISWorld's current public summary gives $7.0bn for 2025 (IBISWorld). The editions do not line up: the 2025 summary reports 9.8% average yearly growth from 2020 to 2025, while the 2024 edition reported 1.7%. IBISWorld revises its whole series between editions, so figures from two editions should not be read as a trend.

The government's count is far smaller than most of these figures and comes with a method. Census's 2022 Economic Census count (see above) put the receipts of U.S. barber shops with paid employees at $1,663,159 thousand in 2022. Barber shops with no paid employees, counted separately by Census, reported $4,190,345 thousand the same year. Census publishes how it counts; IBISWorld does not publish how its estimate is built.

Use instead: name the counter, the year and what is counted, such as the 2022 Economic Census receipts of barber shops with paid employees, or IBISWorld's 2025 figure labelled as a paid firm's modelled estimate. Drop any figure that names no source.

"Men visit the barber every 2-4 weeks"

We found no survey that measured "2-4 weeks". It is a barber's rule of thumb. Wise Barber, a barbering advice blog, puts it this way in 2023: "my clients drop by every 2-4 weeks" (Wise Barber). The oldest measured figures we found come from a 2015 survey by the trade publisher Modern Salon Media, which American Crew, a men's grooming brand, and Sport Clips, a men's haircut franchisor, paid for. The professionals it surveyed estimated an average of 3.8 weeks between their male clients' haircuts, with the largest share, 47%, coming every four weeks (Salon Today, archived). The men surveyed reported a longer gap, 5.1 weeks on average, and younger men and African-American men went more often (Salon Today, archived). The article gives no sample sizes or field dates, and 95% of the professionals worked in salons, not barbershops.

Use instead: give the survey, its year and who answered. For example: "Men in a 2015 trade-press survey reported about five weeks between haircuts; their stylists and barbers guessed closer to four." The consumer surveys reported elsewhere on this page give more recent figures.

"Video lifts conversions 80%"

The 80% comes from a video vendor reporting results for its own clients, not from barbershops. EyeView Digital, which sold landing-page video, published an 80% in February 2009, the earliest form we found. It said viewers who watched one client's educational videos were 80% more likely to become depositing users (EyeView, archived). That compares people who chose to watch with people who did not, so it does not test what adding a video does. In November 2009 EyeView blogged that its very first test on one TutorVista landing page boosted conversion by over 80 percent (EyeView, archived). That is the earliest landing-page form of the claim we found. EyeView's 2010 white paper said the boost was over 80% "in some cases" (EyeView white paper, archived). The one test the paper describes in full, a 50/50 split on an eToro page, found conversion almost 32 percent higher with the video (EyeView white paper, archived).

Unbounce, which sells landing-page software, turned it into a general rule in August 2010, crediting "a study by eyeviewdigital.com" with 80% (Unbounce, archived). It still reaches barbers. In May 2026 FluxNote, which sells AI video-ad software, told barbers that "studies show" video on landing pages can lift conversion rates by over 80%, naming no study (FluxNote). We found no barbershop test behind it. In August 2021 Unbounce published its own analysis of about 35,000 customer landing pages in each of three periods. It concluded that video appears to have a minimal or negative impact on landing-page performance (Unbounce).

Use instead: "One video vendor reported an 80% lift from one client's first landing-page test in 2009; Unbounce's 2021 analysis of about 35,000 of its customers' pages found video made little or no difference." Neither tested a barbershop.

"Barbering is the fastest-growing job in America (BLS)"

None of the editions of the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Outlook Handbook we read, from 2018 to 2025, called barbering the fastest-growing job. Their ten-year projections for barbers moved between 6% and 18%.

In March 2025 Fresno State Focus, a university student news site, reported that according to BLS "barbering is expected to grow by 7% over the next ten years, making it the fastest-growing job in the nation" (Fresno State Focus). The 7% in that edition was the projection for barbers, hairstylists and cosmetologists as one group, 7 percent (BLS, archived). Barbers alone were 6%. BLS described the group's growth as faster than the average for all occupations, not the fastest.

Use instead: quote the current edition and its period (see the projections above), and say whether the figure is for barbers alone or for barbers, hairstylists and cosmetologists together.

"75% of barbers are self-employed"

The share is real but it changes every year, and the "National Barbers Association" credited for it could not be found. ZipDo, a statistics aggregator, says 75% of U.S. barbers are self-employed and cites "2023, National Barbers Association" (ZipDo). We found no such publication. The number matches one year of the BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, which reports the share of barber jobs held by self-employed workers in each edition.

BLS's latest figure is 79.9 percent for 2025 (see above). "Self-employed" is not the same as "rents a booth": the count includes shop owners as well as barbers who rent a chair, and BLS does not split them. Census's 2022 Economic Census gives one indirect measure. Renting booths and chairs to other workers made up 1.2 percent of the receipts of barber shops with paid employees (see above).

Use instead: "79.9% of U.S. barber jobs were held by self-employed workers in 2025, according to BLS Employment Projections." Avoid "X% rent a booth" unless a source measured booth rental itself.

Every popular claim our research pages trace, 708 in all, is on one page: popular video statistics, fact-checked.

How we built this page

We started from the questions people search for about barbershop video statistics and looked for the organization that actually produced each answer. Every figure on this page sits in an evidence ledger with its source, the exact table or paragraph it came from, the measurement period, the population measured, and the date we checked it. This edition holds 492 figures from 57 publishers.

On November 3, 2026, each sourced figure on this page was re-fetched with the fetch cache cleared and matched against the recorded wording: BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages open data, occupation wage estimates (through the BLS data API), Employment Projections, the Occupational Outlook Handbook, the Current Population Survey and the consumer price index; Census County Business Patterns, Nonemployer Statistics and the 2017 and 2022 Economic Census (through the Census data API); Florida DBPR annual reports; the 10-K filings of Regis Corporation and EDGAR full-text search; the 2026 franchise disclosure documents of Sport Clips, Floyd's 99 Barbershop, Roosters, V's Barbershop, Bishops and Hammer & Nails in Minnesota's public CARDS database; SQUIRE, Booksy, Fresha and Google; peer-reviewed studies (abstracts re-read through NCBI E-utilities, because PubMed pages refuse automated requests); Pew Research Center, Bankrate, YouGov, CivicScience, Talker Research and Harris Poll; the barbering statutes and board rules of Florida, Texas and ten other states, the 2015 White House licensing report and the Institute for Justice; and the pages behind each popular claim. Where a site refuses automated requests we read an Internet Archive copy. Our licence counts come from the licence data of Florida DBPR, Texas TDLR (on data.texas.gov), New York's Department of State and Colorado's Department of Regulatory Agencies, our location-page figures from pages we read one at a time, our 10-K phrase counts from EDGAR full-text search, and our YouTube figures from the YouTube Data API, all on the same day. We left out Vagaro, Allied Market Research, Wisconsin DFI, NCSL, the Pennsylvania Code and the Colorado rules site (their robots.txt blocks AI agents), 18|8 Fine Men’s Salons (its robots.txt answered with a bot challenge), Consumer Reports (robots.txt), Washington's legislature site (disallows all crawlers), New York's statute pages (refused automated requests), figures SQUIRE's report credits to other sources, and booking-app guides that give example booth-rent and commission splits without a sample or date.

We only cite the producer: government agencies, regulators, company filings and official posts, and the survey owner's own report. We do not cite statistics roundups, Statista-style aggregators, or salary sites without a public method. We did not bypass paywalls or sign-up forms; where a full report was gated, we used only the figures its publisher states publicly.

Figures marked "our calculation" are arithmetic on the cited numbers, and anyone can reproduce them:

This edition contains no Mark Studios customer data.

Limitations

• Our YouTube read follows YouTube's ranking. The 200 videos are what YouTube's search returned for one query, 'fade haircut', sorted by views on one day; the day's search quota ran out before the 'barber' and 'haircut' queries. It is not a census of barber video, counts are snapshots that include views from ads, and two German barbershop channels hold 40.2% of the views. We classified 112 channels by hand, and calls on thin channel descriptions cover 19.9% of the views.
• Location pages are templated. Within a franchise brand most features are set by the brand's template, so our location-page shares describe the brands' templates, not what independent barbershops choose.
• Three different counts of barbers. BLS's payroll survey (OEWS) leaves out the self-employed, who hold most barber jobs; Employment Projections adds them; the Current Population Survey counts people by main job and carries large sampling error for a small occupation. Census counts nonemployer barber shops by tax return, so a chair renter can be a "shop".
• Licence counts are not people or shops at work. Florida's October 2026 file came out three months after the July 31 renewal deadline, a licence's county is the address on the record, and a licensed barber may not cut hair for a living. The four states license barbers differently, and Texas and Colorado do not license barbershops separately.
• Seller and franchisor data. SQUIRE, Booksy and Fresha sell software to barbershops and report only their own users; the franchise documents' sales figures are each franchisor's own Item 19 representations of unaudited franchisee sales. The haircut-frequency survey was paid for by Sport Clips, and the only national price survey (Harris Poll for Dollar Shave Club) is from 2014-2015.
• Chains that cut men's hair are not all barbershops. Regis says its stylists are licensed cosmetologists and Sport Clips is a men's hair salon chain, so their counts sit beside, not inside, the barber shop industry code (NAICS 812111).

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100. Virginia Board for Barbers and Cosmetology (Virginia Administrative Code, via Virginia General Assembly LIS), 18VAC41-20-200. General requirements (2026). Accessed 2026-11-03.
101. Virginia Board for Barbers and Cosmetology (Virginia Administrative Code, via Virginia General Assembly LIS), 18VAC41-20-20. General requirements for a barber, master barber, cosmetologist, nail technician, or wax technician license (2026). Accessed 2026-11-03.
102. Institute for Justice (advocacy organisation), License to Work 3: Reform Spotlight: Barbering and Beauty Licensing (2022-11). Accessed 2026-11-03.
103. Institute for Justice (advocacy organisation), Barber - License to Work 3 occupation profile (2022-11). Accessed 2026-11-03.
104. Institute for Justice (advocacy organisation), License to Work 3: Ranking Burdens by Occupation (2022-11). Accessed 2026-11-03.
105. The White House (Department of the Treasury Office of Economic Policy, Council of Economic Advisers and Department of Labor), Occupational Licensing: A Framework for Policymakers (July 2015) (2015-07). Accessed 2026-11-03.
106. Research and Markets (report reseller, relaying IBISWorld), Barber Shops in the US - Industry Market Research Report (2024-10). Accessed 2026-11-03.
107. IBISWorld (market-research publisher), Barber Shops in the US - Market Research Report (2014-2029) (2024-10). Accessed 2026-11-03.
108. IBISWorld (market-research publisher), Barber Shops in the US - Market Size (2020-2030) (2025). Accessed 2026-11-03.
109. MyTime (salon and barbershop booking software; repeater), Barbershop Industry Overview and Trends That Made the Cut in 2025 (2024-10-22). Accessed 2026-11-03.
110. Gitnux (statistics aggregator; repeater), Barber Shop Industry Statistics (2026-02-13). Accessed 2026-11-03.
111. Worldmetrics (statistics aggregator; repeater), Barbershop Industry Statistics (2026-02-12). Accessed 2026-11-03.
112. ZipDo (statistics aggregator; repeater), Barbershop Industry Statistics (2026-02-12). Accessed 2026-11-03.
113. The Spot Barbershop (licensor; repeater), Own a profitable The Spot Barbershop (Undated (read 2026-11-03)). Accessed 2026-11-03.
114. Wise Barber (barbering advice blog; repeater), How Often Should You Go to the Barber? Expert Advice & Tips (2023-11-27). Accessed 2026-11-03.
115. Salon Today / Modern Salon Media (trade press; study underwritten by American Crew and Sport Clips), The 2015 Men's Grooming Study (2015-08-18). Accessed 2026-11-03.
116. EyeView Digital (blog), UMOO - a prime beef example of EyeView's success (2009-02-10). Accessed 2026-11-03.
117. EyeView Digital (blog), Another Video Conversion Success Story (2009-11-10). Accessed 2026-11-03.
118. EyeView Digital, Making Video Accountable (White Paper) (2010). Accessed 2026-11-03.
119. Unbounce (repeater), The Benefits of Using Video on Landing Pages (2010-08). Accessed 2026-11-03.
120. FluxNote (AI video-ad software; repeater), How Barbers Can Create Marketing Videos with AI in 2026 (2026-05-01). Accessed 2026-11-03.
121. Unbounce, Video on landing pages means more conversions, right? Wrong. Here's why (2021-08). Accessed 2026-11-03.
122. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Barbers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists : Occupational Outlook Handbook: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (Edition in force on 2018-01-24). Accessed 2026-11-03.
123. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Barbers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists : Occupational Outlook Handbook: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (Edition in force on 2020-04-09). Accessed 2026-11-03.
124. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Barbers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists : Occupational Outlook Handbook: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (Edition in force on 2021-01-21). Accessed 2026-11-03.
125. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Barbers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists : Occupational Outlook Handbook: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (Edition in force on 2022-01-17). Accessed 2026-11-03.
126. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Barbers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists : Occupational Outlook Handbook: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (Edition in force on 2023-01-09). Accessed 2026-11-03.
127. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Barbers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists : Occupational Outlook Handbook: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (Edition in force on 2024-04-21). Accessed 2026-11-03.
128. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Barbers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists : Occupational Outlook Handbook: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (Edition in force on 2025-01-04). Accessed 2026-11-03.
129. Fresno State Focus (student news; repeater), The fastest growing job in America? Barbering is on the rise (2025-03-19). Accessed 2026-11-03.

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