Established 2024 · Salt Lake City

Beehive Biz Pulse

January 30, 2025

Today's Pulse

REMODELLeifson Built (Lehi) — booked through March on basement work. January is no longer a slow month. Seven-person crew including project coordinator. DOPL active.↗

TRADESMario's Plumbing and Heating (SLC) — freeze-season calls through January. Every emergency call inside 90 minutes through the cold stretch. Active plumber license, clean record.↗

WELLNESSPrime IV Hydration Sandy — January new-year wellness peak running above last January. $85 intro price held. Walk-in conversion to repeat at 38%. Competitors at $65 are not seeing the same conversion rates.↗

MARKETBLS: Utah HVAC technician wages for Q4 2024 — median $30.10/hr, up 14% from Q4 2022 baseline. Journeyman plumber wages up 16% over same period. Labor market compression accelerating.↗

HOMEYoungs Cabinet Refinishing (Provo) — January inquiries for spring kitchen projects ahead of last January pace. Spring calendar filling from winter word-of-mouth. DOPL active.↗

HVACArcher Mechanical (SLC) — January heating replacement calls from October inspection clients. Pre-season inspections converting to replacements as projected. Planning Q1 tech hire before spring demand.↗

RETAILLove Thy Barber (SLC) — post-holiday repeat order rate above any prior January. Customers who received the holiday gift set are ordering refills. lovethybarber.shop active, shipping nationally.↗

PULSE

January 2025 is running hotter than January 2024 across most sectors we track. The labor market compression in HVAC and plumbing is the structural story of the year — operators who hired proactively in 2024 are heading into 2025 with stable crews; the ones who didn't are recruiting in a tighter market.

FOUNDERS

Archer Mechanical's Q1 tech hire plan is the right call. The BLS wage data confirms the labor market is tightening. Hiring before the summer demand spike rather than in response to it is the decision that separates operationally excellent shops from reactive ones.

TRUST

Verified: BLS wage data from public source, DOPL operator status, operator-confirmed data for all pulse lines.