PULSE POINTS
CONTINUED
growth as well in order to reach this mark. Spa visits
showed a 1.6 percent increase between 2017 and 2018.
Spa locations were also up by 1.8 percent, revenue per
visit was up 3.0 percent and total employees up 1.6
percent over this same period.
Diving in further to the employment numbers, the
number of full-time employees is estimated to have risen
by 0.6 percent, with part-time employees slightly faster at
2.6 percent and new hires adding 4,600 part-time jobs to
the workforce. the number of independent contractors
remained mostly the same (0.4 percent), which is a contrast
to the numbers from 2007 onwards which showed a steady
reduction for this segment of the workforce.
one in four spas said they had increased staffing
levels in the last six months compared to the same
period in the previous year. Decreasing staffing levels
were reported by just 10 percent of spas, with the
majority (65 percent) saying that their staffing levels had
remained unchanged in the six months prior to march
2019 compared to the same period in the previous year.
the 2019 U.S. Spa industry Study once again posted
solid measures of growth for the industry which has now
experienced its ninth successive year of expansion. find
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SPA GROWTH
YEAR END 2017 TO YEAR END 2018
REVENUE
17.5
18.3
BILLION
SPA VISITS
190
187
MILLION
BILLION
21,770
BILLION
4.7%
2017
2018
LOCATIONS
1.6%
2017
2018
22,160
1.8%
2017
2018
REVENUE PER VISIT
$96.5
$93.7
3.0%
2017
2018
NUMBER OF SPA EMPLOYEES
MAY 2018 TO MAY 2019
TOTAL EMPLOYEES
372,000
FULL-TIME
170,900
1.6%
2018
18
PULSE
2019
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PART-TIME
CONTRACT
377,900
octobEr 2019
172,000
0.6%
2018
2019
173,900
178,500
2.6% 0.4%
2018
2019
27,300 27,400
2018 2019