San Francisco, California · Opening budget
Build your San Francisco opening budget from your own quotes. A verified citywide startup-cost range is unavailable; the planner totals the costs you enter.
By HustleFin · Page reviewed · Regional observations: 2023. The review date does not change the observation year.
Enter your own salon assumptions in one currency. These are your planning numbers, not measured city costs or city averages. Count each upfront cost once and add your cash reserve separately.
Enter every amount, including zero where a cost does not apply, then calculate. Your amounts stay in this browser.
Use your actual address, business model and quote dates in San Francisco. Confirm requirements with the responsible local authority and provider before entering a cost; the county observations below do not supply lease, tax, permit or equipment prices.
Geographic scope: San Francisco County. San Francisco County is the city-and-county reference. It excludes Oakland and the rest of the Bay Area.
Category: Beauty Salons (NAICS 812112; source code 812112). Employer establishments include chain locations and exclude nonemployer businesses. An establishment is a business location, not a count of companies or owners.
Across the listed county geography, the source reports 265 employer establishments. This total describes the selected counties and category; it is not a count limited to independent businesses within the city boundary.
| County | FIPS | Employer establishments | Employment: week of March 12 | Annual payroll ($1,000) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Francisco County | 06075 | 265 | 1,177 (flag: G) | 55,331 (flag: G) |
Unavailable cells retain the source disclosure flag instead of becoming zero. Employment is the reference-week measure; annual payroll covers the calendar year. Do not interpret payroll divided by employment as an hourly wage or annual worker salary.
Select cbp23co.txt rows with county FIPS 06075 and raw NAICS 812112; retain published est, emp, ap and noise flags. Sum est only across the listed, disjoint counties; do not sum industry parent and child rows. Annual payroll ap is in thousands of dollars; emp refers to the week of March 12.
Beauty salon employer establishments; barber shops and nail salons have separate NAICS classifications and are not included here. Covers establishments with paid employees; nonemployer/sole-operator businesses without payroll are excluded. Chains are not filtered out. Published employment and payroll use disclosure protection; retain source flags. CBP provides no revenue, profit margins, commercial rents, startup budgets or prevailing hourly wages.
County Business Patterns does not contain profit margins, revenue, commercial rent, opening costs or permit fees. Regional observations provide industry context; planner outputs come solely from your inputs.
Census source release · Download the Census raw source ZIP · Retrieved: 2026-10-09
Source SHA-256: e9539e96ceb91608ad44ab1cfc651d7c1ff9b88bddfe7a8ff64134ccde6e9603
Opening budget = lease/deposit + buildout + equipment + opening inventory + permits + pre-opening payroll + working capital reserve. Enter each cost once, and keep ongoing payments outside the upfront lines unless they are intentionally included in the reserve.
Illustrative inputs only — not observations about San Francisco. A lease/deposit of $5,000, buildout of $10,000, equipment of $8,000, opening inventory of $2,000, permits of $1,000, pre-opening payroll of $3,000 and reserve of $6,000 total $35,000. These arbitrary amounts demonstrate addition and are not a recommended budget or opening-cost range.
There is no verified citywide opening-cost range in this dataset. Add your lease deposit, buildout, equipment, inventory, permits, pre-opening payroll and working capital in the planner to calculate your own budget.
No. These counts describe employer locations in a defined industry and county geography. They do not measure customer demand, vacant premises, equipment quotes or startup spending.
Use a separate cash-flow plan for the period after opening, including expected collections, operating payments and a buffer you choose. Enter that reserve once; do not repeat costs already included in the upfront budget.
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Coverage: San Francisco County. San Francisco County is the city-and-county reference. It excludes Oakland and the rest of the Bay Area. Beauty salon employer establishments; barber shops and nail salons have separate NAICS classifications and are not included here. Covers establishments with paid employees; nonemployer/sole-operator businesses without payroll are excluded. Chains are not filtered out. Published employment and payroll use disclosure protection; retain source flags. CBP provides no revenue, profit margins, commercial rents, startup budgets or prevailing hourly wages.
HustleFin (2026). San Francisco Salon: 2023 County Industry Reference. Retrieved from https://hustlefin.com/benchmarks/salon/city/san-francisco/
These observations include employer establishments and chain locations in the listed counties. They do not measure city profit averages, prevailing rent or startup spending.
Compare the geography and industry definition before comparing county measures. Each planner uses your own inputs.