One salon needs about 20 stylists.
2 bex+Co. salons already have 19.
That is the whole job. Sign up about 20 people who already work for themselves, and give them a room they are proud to bring a client into. 7 bex+Co. salons are open today, and 100+ independent pros work in them right now.
A bex+Co. location works when about 20 stylists are working out of it. 20 is the number you would be working toward. It is bex+Co.'s own stated target for a location, and 2 of the 7 salons open today are already at 19, so it is a number that has been hit before rather than a hope.
Sources: the 20-member target is bex+Co.'s own internal growth strategy document. Salon and stylist counts come from a bex+Co. live-site roster reconciliation, 11 August 2026, re-checked against the production sitemap on 13 August 2026. Room counts come from bex+Co.'s own location notes, 11 August 2026, which record 18 rooms and 20 members at Georgetown.
There are two normal ways a stylist gets a chair.
bex+Co. uses the second one.
Both of the words below are industry terms. If you have never worked in a salon you will not have heard them before. Here is what each one actually means.
Commission
The salon owner keeps a share of everything the stylist earns. The owner sets the prices, sets the opening hours, and owns the client list. The stylist works there as staff.
This is the ordinary arrangement across the industry, described here in general terms. bex+Co. does not use it. The live bex+Co. member page puts it in three words: “Commission chairs cap your growth.”
Booth rental, which is what bex+Co. does
The stylist pays one flat fee for her room and keeps the money from the services she performs. bex+Co. members pay that fee every week. They set their own prices, keep their own client list, and take their own bookings.
Source. Member terms as published on bexandcosalon.com/join/, retrieved 13 August 2026. Weekly payment is bex+Co.'s own internal standard. The amount of the fee is not published, and it does not appear anywhere on this site.
How bex+Co. describes the job in its own words
Quoted from the live public site“Stylists come in with their own clients and run their own businesses. You provide the space. They bring the talent. Everyone wins.”
“You’re not managing stylists or learning to cut hair. You curate a space, lease chairs, and support a culture that attracts the best talent in the industry.”
Source. Both passages are quoted exactly as they appear on bexandcosalon.com/franchise/, retrieved 13 August 2026. They are bex+Co.'s own description of its model.
At a traditional salon, the owner takes a cut of every haircut and controls the prices and the schedule. At a bex+Co. salon, the stylist pays one flat amount every week for her room and keeps her own clients and her own bookings. That swap is the entire product. You are leasing chairs to small business owners, so you never hire a stylist, never set a price for a haircut, and never take a phone booking.
20 people is a small number
next to how many stylists there are.
Start at the top with everybody in the trade. Work down to the number you actually have to sign.
There are more than half a million people in this trade, almost half of them already working for themselves, and tens of thousands of jobs turning over every year. You need twenty of them, in one city, once. Even in a small metro, the number of stylists you have to reach is a rounding error against the number who are out there.
Sources. The first three rows come from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook – barbers, hairstylists and cosmetologists. 2024 figures, projections to 2034. The 20-member target in the last row is bex+Co.'s own internal growth strategy document, corroborated by bex+Co.'s own location notes, 11 August 2026, which record 18 rooms with 20 members at Georgetown. Read that last row honestly. Not every bex+Co. salon is built for twenty. The same notes record 9 rooms at Cedar Park and 8 at South Lamar, so the smaller buildings are full at well under half that number. Room counts for Gateway, Downtown and The Domain are not recorded, and we have not estimated them.
Here is how many stylists work at each open salon.
The 2 busiest are one person short of 20.
These are live counts taken off the bex+Co. website, one stylist at a time, on 11 August 2026. Nothing on this chart is a target or a projection.
Stylists with a profile page at each bex+Co. salon
Bar length shows how close each one is to 20 membersSources. Stylist counts come from a bex+Co. live-site roster reconciliation, 11 August 2026, cross-checked three ways against the Notion roster and a committed snapshot. The 7 counts add to 81, which is the number with a live profile page. bex+Co. states 100+ independent pros across its salons. Room counts come from bex+Co.'s own location notes, 11 August 2026. Three honest notes. First, two salons are close to full and the other 5 are not, and the smaller buildings hold fewer rooms to begin with. Second, Georgetown is the one place where two bex+Co. records disagree: the location notes list 18 rooms and 20 members, and the live website roster shows 19 stylists. Both say the same thing about whether it is full, and we have not averaged them into one figure. Third, South Lamar, the smallest at 8 rooms, is described in those same notes as hard to keep full.
Georgetown has 18 rooms and 20 members in them. That is the single most useful fact on this page, because it is a bex+Co. salon that is genuinely full, and you can go and look at it. The salons lower down the chart are the smaller buildings and the newer ones. Smaller rooms are harder to keep full, which is exactly why the target size for a location is around twenty rather than eight.
Members keep their own clients and their own booking.
That is the reason they stay.
A stylist at a bex+Co. salon owns her client list. If she ever leaves, she takes it with her, and bex+Co. never stands between her and the person sitting in her chair. Joining is a small risk for her to take, and that is exactly what makes her easy for you to sign.
A stylist stays where her business runs better. bex+Co. gives her a page on a website thirty thousand people visit a month, and lets her keep every client she brings and every client she meets there. Your job as the owner is to keep the room good. Her business does the rest.
Sources. The 229 reviews were captured from bex+Co.'s Google Business Profiles on 11 August 2026, and every one of them was read and scored 1 to 10 for how usable it is. The 82 stylist pages were counted from the live bexandcosalon.com sitemap on 13 August 2026. Please note: the monthly visits figure is bex+Co.'s own published number on bexandcosalon.com/join/, retrieved 13 August 2026. We have not independently checked it, so it is flagged here as second-hand.
“Seven thriving locations with proven retention and repeat demand from top-tier stylists.”
That sentence is bex+Co.'s own, written on its public franchise page. We are quoting it rather than measuring it. The retention claim inside it is a fair thing to ask the bex+Co. team to walk you through on a call.
Source. bexandcosalon.com/franchise/, retrieved 13 August 2026.
The demand is already there.
Your job is to give about 20 people a better room.
Stylists already work for themselves. They already have their own clients. What a bex+Co. salon sells them is the room, the supplies and the people around them. Page 03 shows how much of the work in a brand new city is already finished before an owner ever signs a lease.
Source for “about 20”. bex+Co.'s own internal growth strategy document, which names filling 20 memberships per location as the target. Corroborated by bex+Co.'s own location notes, 11 August 2026: Georgetown has 18 rooms and 20 members in them.
About the numbers on this page. Figures credited to the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the US Census Bureau are taken directly from those agencies' published files, and the links go to the source. Figures marked second-hand come from a bex+Co. industry research pack compiled in June 2026 that credits its sources as a group rather than one by one. Those are shown as background context and we have not independently checked them.
This page makes no promise about money. Nothing here states or suggests the sales, costs, income, or profit of a bex+Co. franchise. That kind of information would only ever be provided in Item 19 of a Franchise Disclosure Document.