Shampooers Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

Read the ladder vertically: each row is the wage of the Shampooers worker at that point in the distribution, so $35,610 at the 75th percentile means three quarters of the occupation earns less. Figures BLS cannot publish appear as n/p, and its top code prints as $239,200+.

Employment and concentration

The occupation employed 8,890 people in May 2024, 0.01% of every job BLS counted. California is the largest employer at 1,790 jobs, and the leading three states between them hold 49.5% of the workforce. Concentration peaks in Delaware, whose location quotient of 6.06 says this work is 6.06 times as dense there as it is nationwide.

Pay inside the occupation is wide: $13,090 separates the ends of its ladder. The 90th percentile ($35,970) is 1.6 times the 10th percentile ($22,880), a gap of $13,090 a year. The mean of $30,830 sitting near the median of $31,470 tells you the top end pulls the average up: most workers cluster below the mean, and the high tail is thin.

Pay by state

District of Columbia posts the highest median annual wage in the state table at $36,320, and California the largest headcount. The full table, sorted by employment:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Shampooers stands number 699 by employment and number 819 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Personal Care and Service Occupations, the group median wage is $37,320 across 32 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 16% less than its group median, and it supplies 0.3% of the group's 3,159,920 jobs. In 4 of the 18 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $31,470, which is the single best quick test of whether this occupation's pay is set nationally or locally: a high count means local markets regularly outbid the national figure.

Metropolitan areas: where the jobs and the pay sit

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA is the largest metro employer with 1,520 jobs, 17.1% of the national total. Two rankings follow across the 20 metros BLS publishes for this occupation: where the jobs are, then where the money is, with the pay ranking restricted to metros employing at least 500 people in this occupation to keep small samples out of the lead.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $29,190 a year, against $35,750 in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA. The lowest-paying large metro and the highest are both real markets for this occupation; the difference between them is the geography premium, or penalty, in cash terms.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

Budget arithmetic on the median: $2,622 a month before tax, $1,210 biweekly, $605 weekly. Moving from the 25th percentile ($27,390) to the 75th ($35,610) is worth $8,220 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. To turn any of these gross figures into spendable money, run them through the paycheck calculator; to weigh an offer against your current role, use the salary calculator; to test a raise against prices, the raise vs inflation calculator.

To place a real offer: a salary of $34,617 would sit between the median ($31,470) and the 75th percentile ($35,610), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $27,390, is $4,080 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Personal Care and Service Occupations

Pay for the neighboring roles in the same BLS major group: Skincare Specialists, Personal Care and Service Workers, All Other, Tour and Travel Guides, Concierges, Baggage Porters and Bellhops, Funeral Attendants. The full directory is on the Careers hub.