Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. employees and revenue per employee

SBH · Specialty Retail · $1.52B market cap

Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. had 27,000 employees at the end of fiscal Sep 2025, unchanged from a year earlier. Revenue for the year was $3.70B, down 0.4% from a year earlier, or $137K per employee. Revenue fell, and headcount fell or held flat with it.

Employees

27,000

+0.0% YoY

Revenue

$3.70B

-0.4% YoY

Revenue / employee

$137K

Peer median $475K

Rank in industry

30 of 32

Specialty Retail

Headcount against revenue

Both lines start at 100 in the first year we hold, so you can see which one grew faster.

EmployeesRevenueIndexed to 100 in Sep 2016
8895102'16'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25Revenue 94Staff 91

Hover a year for the numbers.

SBH employees and revenue by fiscal year
Year endingEmployeesRevenuePer employeeStaff YoYRevenue YoY
Sep 202527,000$3.70B$137K+0.0%-0.4%
Sep 202427,000$3.72B$138K+0.0%-0.3%
Sep 202327,000$3.73B$138K-6.9%-2.3%
Sep 202229,000$3.82B$132K+0.0%-1.5%
Sep 202129,000$3.87B$134K-3.3%+10.3%
Sep 202030,000$3.51B$117K-0.2%-9.3%
Sep 201930,050$3.88B$129K+0.3%-1.4%
Sep 201829,970$3.93B$131K+1.7%-0.1%
Sep 201729,475$3.94B$134K-0.6%-0.4%
Sep 201629,665$3.95B$133K——

Open roles: we have not matched a verified job board for this company yet.

Employees, last six fiscal years
30,000'2029,000'2129,000'2227,000'2327,000'2427,000'25
Revenue per employee, last six fiscal years
$117K'20$134K'21$132K'22$138K'23$138K'24$137K'25

Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. against similar companies

The closest industry peers by revenue, from Specialty Retail.

CompanyEmployeesRevenueRevenue / employeeShape
ETSY
Etsy, Inc.
2,375$2.88B$1.21MLeaner
GME
GameStop Corp.
4,000$3.63B$907KContracting
HZO
MarineMax, Inc.
3,385$2.31B$682KContracting
FIVE
Five Below, Inc.
7,800$4.76B$611KEfficient growth
RH
Rh
7,230$3.44B$476KHiring ahead
BOBS
Bob's Discount Furniture, Inc.
5,950$2.37B$398K—
ASO
Academy Sports and Outdoors, Inc.
23,000$6.05B$263KHiring ahead
EYE
National Vision Holdings, Inc.
13,138$1.99B$151KLeaner
SBH
Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc.
27,000$3.70B$137KContracting
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Questions about Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc.

How many employees does Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. have?
Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. reported 27,000 employees for the fiscal year ending Sep 2025, in the annual report it filed on November 13, 2025. That is unchanged from a year earlier.
What is Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc.'s revenue per employee?
Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. brought in $3.70B of revenue in fiscal Sep 2025, which is $137K per employee. That ranks 30 of 32 companies we track in Specialty Retail, where the median is $475K.
Where do these numbers come from?
Employee counts and revenue are taken from each company's own annual report (Form 10-K). Open roles are counted from the company's public job board where we have matched one. Companies report headcount once a year, sometimes rounded, so small changes can be noise.

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Source: employee counts and revenue as stated in Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc.'s annual reports (Form 10-K), latest filed November 13, 2025. This is data, not a recommendation to buy or sell SBH.