From 1 July 2026 the City of Los Angeles minimum wage is $18.42 an hour, with at least 48 hours of paid sick leave a year, given up front or earned as staff work. California's barbering and cosmetology board requires an establishment licence even for a salon at home. 35.8% of Angelenos were born abroad. Salongram keeps the diary and staff hours on one phone.
Try the demo with a salon in Los Angeles
Cesar Chavez Barbers
Los Angeles · USD · 09:00 to 19:00, Monday to Saturday
A working copy of the app's screens with a sample salon in Los Angeles: local staff, services and prices in USD.
Salongram is a free salon booking app for Los Angeles salons and barbershops: appointments, clients, staff hours and WhatsApp reminders in one Android app.
Wages, sick leave and the room you cut in. The city's minimum wage is $18.42 an hour, sick leave is built in, a salon at home needs a state establishment licence, and more than a third of residents were born abroad.
The City of Los Angeles Office of Wage Standards lists the minimum wage at $18.42 an hour from 1 July 2026, up from $17.87 the year before. It applies to employees who perform at least two hours of work in a week within the city, regardless of immigration status.
City employers must provide at least 48 hours of paid sick leave a year, either up front or as one hour for every 30 worked. Unused time carries over with a cap of at least 72 hours. Employers with 25 or fewer employees have had to provide it since 1 July 2017.
California's Board of Barbering and Cosmetology says services at home need a Board-issued establishment licence, a direct entrance separate from the private quarters, and toilets, hot and cold running water and hand-washing facilities. The Board can inspect during business hours, and the owner receives any citations.
The Board treats services in a client's home as in-home services, not a home salon, and covers them under a separate fact sheet. A mobile stylist who visits clients should read that sheet and check local requirements before taking bookings.
In the planning department's ACS 2019-2023 report the city had 3,857,897 people: 693,572 were naturalised citizens (18.0%) and 688,040 were non-citizens (17.8%), 35.8% foreign born in all. Median household income was $80,366. The report also lists home languages, but it does not state their base, so this guide does not quote them.
At $18.42 an hour, every scheduled shift costs money, so the rota should live in one place. The app holds each person's working days and breaks. Timesheets, wages and payroll stay with the tools you already use for them.
Staff with paid sick time off need that time on the calendar. Mark days off per person, so the booking page does not offer times when they are out and the diary warns you if you book them anyway.
A home salon needs a separate entrance from the private quarters. A booking link, client records and reminders on your phone replace a paper book and a shared text thread.
More than a third of Angelenos were born abroad. Salongram is available in Spanish, English or Arabic, while client messages are prepared in English.
Someone who finds you after hours can ask for a real free time through your link or QR code. It arrives as a request that you accept, change or decline.
We found no official data on how Angelenos book haircuts, so this guide does not guess. What Salongram does is keep walk-ins, calls and link requests in one diary per barber or stylist, and it warns about an overlap before you confirm.
Every barber or stylist has their own days, hours and time off, so a booking lands with the right person.
The schedulePut your booking link or QR code on your social page. A request for a free time arrives, and nothing is booked until you accept it.
The booking linkRecord cash or card against each visit so the day's takings are on the screen. Salongram does not process the payment.
Payment recordsAn illustrative Saturday, not research: a barbershop in Boyle Heights with three barber chairs and a nail booth, open six days, where the owner cuts and a mix of regulars and walk-ins fill the chairs.
The owner checks the day: one barber has the day off and two columns are nearly full before noon.
A walk-in wants a fade; the owner has an hour free and books him straight into his own column.
A beard trim cancels. A client on the waiting list who asked for Wednesday afternoons takes the slot.
Two booking-link requests arrive for Thursday. The owner checks each barber's hours and accepts them.
Type in your own numbers. A no-show is a slot nobody else could take; reminders and a waiting list are how most salons win part of it back.
An estimate from the numbers you enter (a month counted as 4.33 weeks). Nothing is sent or stored. Salongram is free to download.
List each cut, fade, beard trim or colour with its price and how long it takes, so the diary blocks the right amount of time.
Give each person their days, hours, breaks and any sick or vacation days off, so the diary only offers times they are in.
Create the optional account to get your link and QR code, then put it on your social pages, Google listing or shop window.
Yes. Salongram is free to download on Google Play for Android. It keeps one diary per barber, client records, staff hours and payment notes, and prepares WhatsApp reminders you send yourself. It does not take card payments or deposits.
The Office of Wage Standards lists $18.42 an hour from 1 July 2026, up from $17.87. Salongram keeps your staff's scheduled hours and days off. It does not record hours worked or work out wages.
Possibly. The state board says a home salon needs an establishment licence, a separate entrance and basic plumbing, and the Board can inspect it. Check city or county rules too. Salongram can run your diary but does not hold the licence.
The city lists at least 48 hours a year, given up front or earned at one hour for every 30 worked, with unused time carrying over to a cap of at least 72 hours. Mark each person's sick days as time off in Salongram. It does not track balances.
In the planning department's ACS 2019-2023 figures, 35.8% of residents were foreign born. Salongram runs in English, Arabic or Spanish, so check that your team can use one of them.
Set up tonight, add your services and team, and book your first client in under a minute.
Try the live demo
Salongram