Fulton County, GA counted 547 beauty salons in 2023 (County Business Patterns).
Chairs, dryers, color bars, nail stations and retail shelves fit equipment financing or a seller's lease; a suite deposit fits working capital. Plumbed fixtures are property work outside this site. The 2023 Census count for Fulton County, GA lists 547 beauty salons and 127 nail salons among its employer establishments.
At a glance
- Beauty salons, Fulton County, GA
547 employer establishments (CBP 2023)
- Nail salons, Fulton County, GA
127 employer establishments (CBP 2023)
- Beauty salons, ZIP 30097
29 employer establishments (ZBP 2023)
- Beauty salons with no paid employees, Fulton County, GA
5,901 (NES 2024)
Styling chairs and dryers in Johns Creek, GA: salon business loans or a seller's lease?
A seller's lease and a loan both spread the cost of styling chairs and dryers over time, but they finish differently. With equipment financing, the salon owns the chairs once the last payment clears. A lease finishes with a decision: hand the chairs back, keep leasing, or pay the buyout the lease names.
Invented figures: chairs and dryers priced at $14,200, financed over 36 months at a 13.5% annual rate, cost $481.88 a month and $17,347.68 in all. Leasing that set instead, at $472 a month for 36 months and then a $1,420 buyout, comes to $18,412.00. Here the lease asks less each month and more in total once the buyout is counted.
Lease terms differ from seller to seller, so the buyout figure and what happens at the end belong on the list of questions before signing.
Salon business loans for nail stations and retail shelves in Fulton County, GA
Nail tables, manicure stations, UV lamps and the shelving that holds retail product are movable equipment, so they can go on one equipment request as a package. The product on those shelves, the bottles and tools sold at the front desk, is stock; inventory financing or working capital suits it better than an equipment loan.
Pedicure chairs are equipment too, but hooking them up to water and drains is plumbing work on the building, which this site does not fund. Shampoo bowls fall on the same side of that line, since they are plumbed in.
A color bar is the mixing station where stylists measure and blend color: a counter unit, a scale, bowls, storage for tubes and a stool or two. When it stands on its own rather than being fixed to the wall or tied into a sink, it can join the chairs and nail tables on the same equipment request.
What a Johns Creek, GA salon or barbershop gathers before asking about salon business loans
A salon or barbershop that takes cards can show its sales through processor statements as well as bank statements, and a funding partner may look at either. A short set to gather:
- Card processor statements for recent months
- Business bank statements covering the same months
- Booth rental or suite agreements, if stylists rent chairs
- Quotes for the chairs, dryers or stations being bought
- Equipment leases already running, with their monthly amounts
For a merchant cash advance, the card statements may carry more weight. It is not a loan. Instead, the provider pays up front for a set portion of later card receipts and collects that portion as its contract sets out, from card batches or through a fixed daily debit.
Beauty salons, nail salons and barber shops in Fulton County, GA, and the costs salon business loans match
| Census category | Employer establishments | Paid employees | Fewer than five employees |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beauty salons (NAICS 812112) | 547 | 2,810 | 406 (74.2%) |
| Nail salons (NAICS 812113) | 127 | 313 | 114 (89.8%) |
| Barber shops (NAICS 812111) | 52 | 206 | 38 (73.1%) |
In all three categories, shops with fewer than five employees make up the larger part of the count. For 2023, the county's beauty salons paid their staff $106.4 million in total, a sum for all of them together.
Nonemployer Statistics for 2024, a separate count of businesses with no paid employees, listed 5,901 beauty salons, 876 nail salons and 937 businesses classed as barber shops in Fulton County, GA.
A stylist working alone in a suite and a salon with a payroll can ask about the same funding types; the amounts and the records differ. The county totals take in every salon in Johns Creek, GA along with those in Atlanta.
A suite lease and salon business loans for a Johns Creek, GA stylist moving up
A stylist moving from a rented booth into a salon suite takes on a lease, a deposit and the equipment to fill the room: a chair, a dryer, a mirror station and shelves for retail product. The deposit and first month's rent are one-time costs that working capital can carry.
Invented figures: $6,800 of suite equipment financed over 24 months at 14.25% is $327.29 a month, and the 24 payments come to $7,854.96.
The suite agreement decides what may change in the room. Anything attached to the walls or the plumbing is property work outside this site. Notes on other personal care trades are on the trades page. For nail salons in particular, pedicure chairs, nail tables and supply orders separates salon equipment from work on the suite.
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