Salons & barbershops in California

4,107 licensed salon and barbershop establishments in California. It's a volume trade: sales are small, frequent, and often to a stylist already working in the chairs.

Salons sell around 2.1x owner earnings, median sale about $117,000. Chair count and booth-rental versus commission decide the number, and neither is in the license file, so these pages ask the owner for two numbers rather than guessing.

324 establishments here have held their license twenty years or more. That's the list of owners thinking about what's next.