Major Group 72: Personal Services

This major group includes establishments primarily engaged in providing services generally to individuals, such as laundries, drycleaning plants, portrait photographic studios, and beauty and barber shops. Also included are establishments operating as industrial launderers and those primarily engaged in providing linen supply services to commercial and business establishments.

• Industry Group 721: Laundry, Cleaning, And Garment Services
  
  • 7211 Power Laundries, Family And Commercial
    Establishments primarily engaged in operating mechanical laundries with steam or other power. Establishments primarily engaged in supplying laundered work clothing on a contract or fee basis are classified in Industry 7218.
    
    • Laundries, power: family and commercial
    • Laundry collecting and distributing outlets operated by power
    • Power laundries, family and commercial
  • 7212 Garment Pressing, And Agents For Laundries And Drycleaners
    Establishments primarily engaged in providing laundry and drycleaning services but which have the laundry and drycleaning work done by others. Establishments in this industry may do their own pressing or finishing work. Establishments operating their own laundry plants are classified in Industry 7211, and those operating their own drycleaning plants are classified in Industry 7216.
    
    • Agents, retail: for laundries and drycleaners
    • Bobtailers, laundry and drycleaning
    • Cleaning and laundry pickup stations not owned by laundries or
    • Press shops for garments
    • Truck route laundry and drycleaning, not operated by laundries or
    • Valet apparel service
  • 7213 Linen Supply
    Establishments primarily engaged in supplying to commercial establishments or household users, on a rental basis, such laundered items as uniforms, gowns, and coats of the type used by doctors, nurses, barbers, beauticians, and waitresses; and table linens, bed linens, towels and toweling, and similar items. Establishments included in this industry may or may not operate their own laundry facilities. Establishments primarily engaged in providing diaper service are classified in Industry 7219.
    
    • Apron supply service
    • Coat supply service
    • Continuous towel supply service
    • Gown supply service, uniform
    • Linen supply service
    • Shirt supply service
    • Table cover supply service
    • Towel supply service, except wiping
    • Uniform supply service, except industrial
  • 7215 Coin-operated Laundries And Drycleaning
    Establishments primarily engaged in the operation of coin-operated or similar self-service laundry and drycleaning equipment for use on the premises, or in apartments, dormitories, and similar locations.
    
    • Coin-operated laundries
    • Drycleaning coin-operated
    • Launderettes
    • Laundromats
    • Laundry machine routes, coin-operated
    • Self-service laundry and drycleaning
  • 7216 Drycleaning Plants, Except Rug Cleaning
    Establishments primarily engaged in drycleaning or dyeing apparel and household fabrics other than rugs. Press Shops and agents for drycleaners are classified in Industry 7212; establishments primarily engaged in cleaning rugs are classified in Industry 7217; and establishments primarily engaged in dyeing fabrics for the trade are classified in Manufacturing, Major Group 22.
    
    • Cleaning and dyeing plants except rug cleaning
    • Collecting and distributing agencies operated by cleaning plants
    • Drapery drycleaning plants
    • Drycleaning plants, except rug cleaning
  • 7217 Carpet And Upholstery Cleaning
    Establishments primarily engaged in cleaning carpets and upholstered furniture at a plant or on customers' premises.. Establishments primarily engaged in rug repair are classified in Industry 7699, and those primarily engaged in reupholstering and repairing furniture are classified in Industry 7641.
    
    • Carpet cleaning and repairing plants
    • Carpet cleaning on customers premises
    • Furniture cleaning on customers premises
    • Rug cleaning, dyeing and repairing plants
    • Upholstery cleaning on customers premises
  • 7218 Industrial Launderers
    Establishments primarily engaged in supplying laundered or drycleaned industrial work uniforms and related work clothing, such as protective apparel (flame and heat resistant) and clean room apparel; laundered mats and rugs; dust control items, such as treated mops, rugs, mats, dust tool covers, and cloths; laundered wiping towels; and other selected items to industrial, commercial, and government users. These items may belong to the industrial launderer and be supplied to users on a rental basis, or they may be the customers' own goods. Establishments included in this industry may or may not operate their own laundry or drycleaning facilities.
    
    • Clean room apparel supply service
    • Flame and heat resistant clothing supply service
    • Industrial launderers
    • Industrial uniform supply service
    • Laundered mat and rug supply service
    • Radiation protective garments supply service
    • Safety glove supply service
    • Towel supply service wiping
    • Treated mats, rugs, mops, dust tool covers, and cloth supply service
    • Wiping towel supply service
    • Work clothing supply service, industrial
  • 7219 Laundry And Garment Services, Not Elsewhere Classified
    Establishments primarily engaged in furnishing laundry and garment services, not elsewhere classified, such as the repair, alteration, and storage of clothes for individuals and for the operation of hand laundries. Custom tailors and dressmakers are classified in Retail Trade, Industry 5699; fur shops making fur apparel to custom order are classified in Retail Trade, Industry 5632; and press shops are classified in Industry 7212.
    
    • Diaper service
    • Dressmaking services on material owned by individual customers
    • Fur garments: cleaning, repairing, and storage
    • Garment alteration and repair shops
    • Hand laundries
    • Laundries, except power and coin-operated
    • Pillow cleaning and renovating
    • Repair of furs and other garments for individuals
    • Reweaving textiles (mending service)
    • Storage of furs and other garments for individuals
    • Tailor shops, except custom or merchant tailors

• Industry Group 722: Photographic Studios, Portrait
  
  • 7221 Photographic Studios, Portrait
    Establishments primarily engaged in still or video portrait photography for the general public. Establishments primarily engaged in commercial photography are classified in Industry 7335; those engaged in video tape production other than portrait are classified in Industry 7812; and those engaged in film developing or print processing for the trade or for the general public are classified in Industry 7384. Establishments primarily engaged in processing film for the motion picture production industry are classified in Industry 7819, and those engaged in computer photography are classified in Industry 7299.
    
    • Home photographers
    • Passport photographers
    • Photographers, portrait: still or video
    • Portrait photographers
    • School photographers
    • Transient photographers
    • Video photography, portrait

• Industry Group 723: Beauty Shops
  
  • 7231 Beauty Shops
    Establishments primarily engaged in furnishing beauty or hairdressing services. This industry also includes combination beauty and barber shops, as well as hairdressing shops serving both male and female clientele. Beauty and cosmetology schools are included in this industry.
    
    • Beauty and barber shops, combined
    • Beauty culture schools
    • Beauty shops or salons
    • Cosmetology schools
    • Cosmetology shops or salons
    • Facial salons
    • Hairdressers
    • Manicure and pedicure salons
    • Unisex hairdressers

• Industry Group 724: Barber Shops
  
  • 7241 Barber Shops
    Establishments primarily engaged in furnishing barber and men's hair styling services. Barber colleges are included in this industry.
    
    • Barber college
    • Barber shops
    • Hair stylists, men's

• Industry Group 725: Shoe Repair Shops And Shoeshine Parlors
  
  • 7251 Shoe Repair Shops And Shoeshine Parlors
    Establishments primarily engaged in repairing footwear or shining shoes. Also included are establishments engaged in cleaning and blocking hats.
    
    • Bootblack parlors
    • Hat cleaning and blocking shops Shoe dyeing shops
    • Shoe repair shops
    • Shoeshine parlors

• Industry Group 726: Funeral Service And Crematories
  
  • 7261 Funeral Service And Crematories
    Establishments primarily engaged in preparing the dead for burial, conducting funerals, and cremating the dead.
    
    • Crematories
    • Funeral directors
    • Funeral homes or parlors
    • Morticians
    • Undertakers

• Industry Group 729: Miscellaneous Personal Services
  
  • 7291 Tax Return Preparation Services
    Establishments primarily engaged in providing tax return preparation services without also providing accounting, auditing, or bookkeeping services. Establishments engaged in providing income tax return preparation services which also provide accounting, auditing, or bookkeeping services are classified in Industry 8721.
    
    • Income tax return preparation services without accounting, auditing,
    • Tax return preparation services without accounting, auditing, or
  • 7299 Miscellaneous Personal Services, Not Elsewhere Classified
    Establishments primarily engaged in providing personal services, not elsewhere classified. Establishments primarily engaged in operating physical fitness facilities, including health fitness spas and reducing salons, are classified in Major Group 70 if they provide lodging and in Industry 7991 if they do not, and those renting medical equipment are classified in Industry 7352.
    
    • Babysitting bureaus
    • Bartering services for individuals
    • Birth certificate agencies
    • Blood pressure testing, coin-operated
    • Buyers' clubs
    • Car title and tag service
    • Checkroom concessions or services
    • Clothing rental, except industrial launderers and linen supply
    • Coin-operated service machine operation: scales, shoeshine, lockers,
    • College clearinghouses
    • Comfort station operation
    • Computer photography or portraits
    • Consumer buying service
    • Costume rental
    • Dating service
    • Debt counseling or adjustment service to individuals
    • Depilatory salons
    • Diet workshops
    • Dress suit rental
    • Electrolysis (hair removal)
    • Escort service
    • Genealogical investigation service
    • Hair removal (electrolysis)
    • Hair weaving or replacement service
    • Locker rental, except cold storage
    • Marriage bureaus
    • Massage parlors
    • Porter service
    • Quilting for individuals
    • Rest room operation
    • Scalp treatment service
    • Shopping service for individuals
    • Steam baths
    • Tanning salons
    • Tattoo parlors
    • Turkish baths
    • Tuxed