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Personal & Household Services
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  Industries / Personal & Household Services  
     
 
Home and Garden Equipment Repair and Maintenance
Appliance Repair and Maintenance
Reupholstery and Furniture Repair
Footwear and Leather Goods Repair
Other Personal and Household Goods Repair and Maintenance
Barber Shops
Beauty Salons
Nail Salons
Diet and Weight Reducing Centers
Other Personal Care Services
Funeral Homes and Funeral Services
Cemeteries and Crematories
Coin-Operated Laundries and Drycleaners
Drycleaning and Laundry Services (except Coin-Operated)
Linen Supply
Industrial Launderers
Pet Care (except Veterinary) Services
Photofinishing Laboratories (except One-Hour)
One-Hour Photofinishing
Parking Lots and Garages
All Other Personal Services
Private Households
 
 
 
Home and Garden Equipment Repair and Maintenance
Description: This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in repairing and servicing home and garden equipment without retailing new home and garden equipment, such as lawnmowers, handheld power tools, edgers, snow- and leaf-blowers, and trimmers.
Examples: N/A
Appliance Repair and Maintenance
Description: This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in repairing and servicing household appliances without retailing new appliances, such as refrigerators, stoves, washing machines, clothes dryers, and room air-conditioners.
Examples: N/A
Reupholstery and Furniture Repair
Description: This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in one or more of the following: (1) reupholstering furniture; (2) refinishing furniture; (3) repairing furniture; and (4) repairing and restoring furniture.
Examples: N/A
Footwear and Leather Goods Repair
Description: This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in repairing footwear and/or repairing other leather or leather-like goods without retailing new footwear and leather or leather-like goods, such as handbags and briefcases.
Examples: N/A
Other Personal and Household Goods Repair and Maintenance
Description: This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in repairing and servicing personal or household-type goods without retailing new personal and household-type goods (except home and garden equipment, appliances, furniture, and footwear and leather goods). Establishments in this industry repair items, such as garments; watches; jewelry; musical instruments; bicycles and motorcycles; motorboats, canoes, sailboats, and other recreational boats.
Examples: N/A
Barber Shops
Description: This U.S. industry comprises establishments known as barber shops or men's hair stylist shops primarily engaged in cutting, trimming, and styling boys' and men's hair; and/or shaving and trimming men's beards.
Examples: N/A
Beauty Salons
Description: This U.S. industry comprises establishments (except those known as barber shops or men's hair stylist shops) primarily engaged in one or more of the following: (1) cutting, trimming, shampooing, weaving, coloring, waving, or styling hair; (2) providing facials; and (3) applying makeup (except permanent makeup).
Examples: Unisex or women's hair stylist shops, Hairdressing salons or shops, Facial salons or shops, Cosmetology salons or shops, Combined beauty and barber shops, Beauty parlors or shops
Nail Salons
Description: This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing nail care services, such as manicures, pedicures, and nail extensions.
Examples: N/A
Diet and Weight Reducing Centers
Description: This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing nonmedical services to assist clients in attaining or maintaining a desired weight. The sale of weight reduction products, such as food supplements, may be an integral component of the program. These services typically include individual or group counseling, menu and exercise planning, and weight and body measurement monitoring.
Examples: N/A
Other Personal Care Services
Description: This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing personal care services (except hair, nail, facial, nonpermanent makeup, or nonmedical diet and weight reducing services).
Examples: Tattoo parlors, Tanning salons, Steam or turkish baths, Saunas, Permanent makeup salons, Massage parlors, Hair replacement (except by offices of physicians) or weaving services, Ear piercing services, Depilatory or electrolysis (i.e., hair removal) salons
Funeral Homes and Funeral Services
Description: This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in preparing the dead for burial or interment and conducting funerals (i.e., providing facilities for wakes, arranging transportation for the dead, selling caskets and related merchandise). Funeral homes combined with crematories are included in this industry.
Examples: N/A
Cemeteries and Crematories
Description: This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in operating sites or structures reserved for the interment of human or animal remains and/or cremating the dead.
Examples: Pet cemeteries, Memorial gardens (i.e., burial places), Mausoleums, Crematories (except combined with funeral homes), Cemetery associations (i.e., operators of cemeteries)
Coin-Operated Laundries and Drycleaners
Description: This industry comprises (1) establishments primarily engaged in operating facilities with coin-operated or similar self-service laundry and drycleaning equipment for customer use on the premises and (2) establishments primarily engaged in supplying and servicing coin-operated or similar self-service laundry and drycleaning equipment for customer use in places of business operated by others, such as apartments and dormitories.
Examples: N/A
Drycleaning and Laundry Services (except Coin-Operated)
Description: This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in one or more of the following: (1) providing drycleaning services (except coin-operated); (2) providing laundering services (except linen and uniform supply or coin-operated); (3) providing dropoff and pickup sites for laundries and/or drycleaners; and (4) providing specialty cleaning services for specific types of garments and other textile items (except carpets and upholstery), such as fur, leather, or suede garments; wedding gowns; hats; draperies; and pillows. These establishments may provide all, a combination of, or none of the cleaning services on the premises.
Examples: N/A
Linen Supply
Description: This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in supplying, on a rental or contract basis, laundered items, such as table and bed linens; towels; diapers; and uniforms, gowns, or coats of the type used by doctors, nurses, barbers, beauticians, and waitresses.
Examples: N/A
Industrial Launderers
Description: This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in supplying, on a rental or contract basis, laundered industrial work uniforms and related work clothing, such as protective apparel (flame and heat resistant) and clean room apparel; dust control items, such as treated mops, rugs, mats, dust tool covers, cloths, and shop or wiping towels.
Examples: N/A
Pet Care (except Veterinary) Services
Description: This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing pet care services (except veterinary), such as boarding, grooming, sitting, and training pets.
Examples: N/A
Photofinishing Laboratories (except One-Hour)
Description: This U.S. industry comprises establishments (except those known as "one-hour" photofinishing labs) primarily engaged in developing film and/or making photographic slides, prints, and enlargements.
Examples: N/A
One-Hour Photofinishing
Description: This U.S. industry comprises establishments known as "one-hour" photofinishing labs primarily engaged in developing film and/or making photographic slides, prints, and enlargements on a short turnaround or while-you-wait basis.
Examples: N/A
Parking Lots and Garages
Description: This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing parking space for motor vehicles, usually on an hourly, daily, or monthly basis and/or valet parking services.
Examples: N/A
All Other Personal Services
Description: This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing personal services (except personal care services, death care services, drycleaning and laundry services, pet care services, photofinishing services, or parking space and/or valet parking services).
Examples: Wedding planning services, Social escort services, Shoeshine services, Dating services, Consumer buying services, Coin-operated personal services machine (e.g., blood pressure, locker, photographic, scale, shoeshine) concession operators, Bail bonding or bondsperson services
Private Households
Description: This industry comprises private households primarily engaged in employing workers on or about the premises in activities primarily concerned with the operation of the household. These private households may employ individuals, such as cooks, maids, nannies, and butlers, and outside workers, such as gardeners, caretakers, and other maintenance workers.
Examples: N/A
 
 
     
 
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  Source: MyPlan.com L.L.C. 2019; U.S. Census Bureau, 2018; Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, 2018  
   
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