How much does a Anago Cleaning Systems franchise make?

The average Anago Cleaning Systems unit reported $3,453,102 of revenue in the 2026 FDD, and the median reported $3,531,399. The filing discloses revenue and not profit, so what an owner keeps depends on the cost structure set out below. Fees come off the top first, at about 7% of sales across royalty, brand fund and the rest of the stack. Revenue is not income. Rent, wages, cost of goods and the franchise fees all come out before an owner is paid,

Breakdown

Anago Cleaning Systems franchise unit economics

An Anago subfranchisor owns a metropolitan region of at least 500,000 people, sells unit franchises into it, wins the cleaning contracts and bills the clients. Across 37 regional owners annual sales average $3,453,102, with the top quartile at $6,162,068. A minimum performance standard starts at $30,000 a month and rises by another $30,000 each year, with royalty charged on the greater of actual revenue or that standard.

By Scott Engler · Averan Advisors · Source: Anago Franchising, Inc., 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD) · Updated 22 September 2026

Where these figures come from

Primary source: Anago Franchising, Inc., 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document
Items read: Items 5 and 6 for fees; Item 7 for cost to open; Item 19 for sales and any profit figure
Population: 37 of 44 locations
Our calculations: Marked on the page with an asterisk. Method
Last reviewed: 26 September 2026

Disclosure-based. Not a forecast, not an offer to sell a franchise, and not advice.

Key idea

The minimum performance standard starts at $30,000 a month and adds another $30,000 every anniversary. By year 10 the standard is $3,240,000 a year, and by year 20 it is $6,840,000. That is above the average of the system's top quartile. The royalty is charged on whichever is larger, that standard or the money actually earned.

Regional owners reporting37 of 41

Average annual sales$3,453,102

Top quartile$6,162,068

Total investment$219,000–$339,000

The performance standard rises $360,000 of annual revenue every year for the whole term. $360,000 in year 2, $3,240,000 by year 10, $6,840,000 by year 20, and the 5% royalty applies to the greater of the standard or actual revenue.
A fourth-quartile region billing $1,266,186 is under the standard from year 5. By year 7 the royalty owed is $108,000 against $63,309 on what it earned *, $44,691 on revenue the year failed to produce.
Median sales passed average sales in 2025 for the first time in four years. $3,531,399 against $3,453,102, with 51% reaching the average against 42% in 2022.
The top quartile has the lowest-selling attainment at 33%. Three of nine reach their own $6,162,068 average, on a range from $4,806,898 to $8,243,733.
Fixed obligations are $56,600 a year before a dollar of royalty. $50,000 of required client marketing and $6,600 of system access *, 4.5% of a fourth-quartile region's sales.

Top performers

What separates the top Anago Cleaning Systems performers

Anago Cleaning Systems splits its locations into groups instead of publishing one average. The best group averaged $6,162,068 a year. The worst averaged $1,266,186. Both run the same brand, on the same agreement, paying the same fees.

Decided before you open

Trade area and site.A 4.9× gap between bands is not an operating gap. Catchment, daytime population and what sits next door set the ceiling before the first customer arrives.
Territory, and how much of it is real.This model sells from a territory rather than a building, quoted at 500,000 people. Two owners with the same brand and different ground are running different businesses, and density decides how much driving sits between jobs.
What you spend to open.Opening costs $219,000 to $339,000, a 1.5× range inside one brand. The high end usually buys more capacity, so the cheapest build is not always the cheapest route to the top band.

Live operating levers

Accounts, the operating driver.This model bills on accounts. An account signed this year still bills next year, so keeping accounts matters more than winning them. It is worth watching every week, because by the time it turns up in a monthly close the quarter is half gone.
The gift card book.Gift cards are sold before the service is delivered. The top performers are not selling more of them by accident, they are running a deliberate seasonal push into the holidays and out of it again. The accounting follows: a gift card is deferred revenue until it is redeemed, so cash and earned revenue arrive in different periods.
Membership and rebooking.A recurring plan turns a high-fixed-cost business from an appointment book into a subscription, which smooths the utilisation that drives the wage line. Rebooking before the customer leaves is what builds it, not marketing spend afterwards.
Fees, and where the minimum bites.Fees run about 7.0% of sales. A minimum sits underneath the percentage, so the low-volume location pays the higher effective rate. The brand charges the weakest locations the most. Work out the sales level where the percentage overtakes the minimum and know which side of it you are on, because the answer changes what an extra dollar of sales is worth.
The first year.This filing shows how a new location builds up, so the ramp can be underwritten from the document rather than assumed. Read two things out of it: the month sales cross the point where costs are covered, and how much cash you fund before that month arrives. Everything before break-even is paid for by you.

Context you underwrite around

The reporting screen.37 of 44 locations are behind these figures. Locations open less than the full year, brand-owned, or not meeting the reporting criteria are excluded, so the numbers describe locations that cleared that screen, not the system as a whole.
What the disclosure leaves out.Item 19 publishes no profit or cost data for franchised locations. Anything below the sales line has to come from the franchisor or from owners you call.

Top performers

How far apart the locations are

First

This filing does not split its locations into performance bands, so the gap between the highest and lowest Anago Cleaning Systems location is not disclosed. What it does publish is on the Model and Finance tabs.

Best to worst, by sales

Five times, and the top group is the loosest.

First

$6,162,068

Second

$3,984,876

Third

$2,642,270

Fourth

$1,266,186

2025 average annual sales by quartile, 37 regional owners, as the brand reported it, with the year the performance standard overtakes each level added *Averan calculation
quartile	Owners	Average annual sales	Median	Lowest	Highest	Reaching their own average	Standard overtakes it in *
First	9	$6,162,068	$5,791,371	$4,806,898	$8,243,733	33%	Year 19
Second	9	$3,984,876	$3,940,583	$3,549,609	$4,742,381	44%	Year 13
All 37	37	$3,453,102	$3,531,399	$282,393	$8,243,733	51%	Year 11
Third	9	$2,642,270	$2,674,468	$1,890,111	$3,531,399	56%	Year 9
Fourth	10	$1,266,186	$1,569,293	$282,393	$1,852,687	60%	Year 5

Owner counts, sales, medians, ranges and attainment are as the brand reported it; the final column is marked *.

The top quartile averages $6,162,068 and the bottom $1,266,186. Nearly five times, across regions that each hold at least 500,000 people. The bottom quartile own range runs from $282,393 to $1,852,687, 6.6 times inside a single group. So the lowest-selling regions are where the widest dispersion sits.

Attainment falls as revenue rises: 60%, 56%, 44%, 33%. Six of ten in the fourth quartile reach their own average and three of nine in the first. The top group is stretched by an $8,243,733 high against a $4,806,898 low, so its published average describes a small number of very large regions.

The fourth quarter's median of $1,569,293 sits above its own average of $1,266,186. A $303,107 gap, created by the $282,393 minimum. Half that group bills above $1,569,293, so the quarter reads worse than most of its members trade. The tail is one or two regions.

The third quarter's own high equals the system median at $3,531,399. Which places the midpoint of the whole system at the ceiling of its third quartile. Moving from the third quarter's $2,642,270 to the second's $3,984,876 is a $1,342,606 step, the largest gap between any two adjacent groups here.

Four regional owners are outside these figures. 37 of 41, covering those trading a full calendar year. The remaining four are newer or were company-held, which matters when reading a system this small. A single region moving between groups shifts a quartile average by a tenth.

Four years

The middle caught the mean.

Average annual sales, 2022 to 2025, as the brand reported it, with growth added *Averan calculation
Measure	2022	2023	2024	2025	Growth *
Average annual sales	$2,739,828	$3,029,925	$3,363,327	$3,453,102	26.0%
Median annual sales	$2,190,135	$2,485,498	$3,187,641	$3,531,399	61.2%
Highest	$7,702,075	$8,185,855	$8,373,146	$8,243,733	7.0%
Lowest	$556,164	$332,846	$136,026	$282,393	−49.2%
Owners in the group	38	40	39	37	n/a
Reaching the average	42%	43%	44%	51%	9 points

Every figure is as the brand reported it; the growth column is marked *, comparing 2025 against 2022.

The median grew 61.2% over three years while the average grew 26.0%. $2,190,135 to $3,531,399 against $2,739,828 to $3,453,102. Growth arrived in the middle of the distribution, which is the healthier of the two patterns and the harder one to engineer.

The share reaching the average climbed from 42% to 51%. Nine points across four years. In 2025 the median finally passed the average by $78,297. The first year in the series where the typical region outperformed the arithmetic mean, and a sign that the heavy tail has thinned.

The largest region grew 7.0% across three years. $7,702,075 to $8,243,733, having peaked at $8,373,146 in 2024. The ceiling of this system has been effectively flat since 2023, so the growth in the series came from regions climbing toward it.

The lowest-selling region halved, from $556,164 to $282,393. Having bottomed at $136,026 in 2024. Over the same four years the reporting group fell from 38 owners to 37, and regional owners fell from 42 to 41.

The system holds 44 franchised regions and one company-owned. Down from 47 franchised at the end of 2023. The reductions in 2024 and 2025 were regional owners converting to a market developer model, with those locations still trading.

The rising sales target

Thirty thousand more every year.

The minimum performance standard and the royalty it has *Averan calculation
Year of operation	Monthly standard	Annual equivalent	Royalty at 5%	Which published level it passes
Year 2	$30,000	$360,000	$18,000	The system's lowest-selling region, $282,393
Year 5	$120,000	$1,440,000	$72,000	The fourth quartile average, $1,266,186
Year 9	$240,000	$2,880,000	$144,000	The third quartile average, $2,642,270
Year 11	$300,000	$3,600,000	$180,000	The system average, $3,453,102
Year 13	$360,000	$4,320,000	$216,000	The second quartile average, $3,984,876
Year 19	$540,000	$6,480,000	$324,000	The first quartile average, $6,162,068
Year 20	$570,000	$6,840,000	$342,000	End of a renewed term

Ours, built from the published schedule.

The standard asks for $360,000 more of annual revenue every single year. Year 2 wants $360,000, year 10 wants $3,240,000 and year 20 wants $6,840,000. Sales grew 8.0% a year across the published figures *. The standard rises by a fixed dollar amount each year, so the two move apart further with every anniversary.

A region at the fourth-quartile average owes $44,691 of royalty on revenue it failed to earn by year 7. $108,000 against $63,309 on $1,266,186 *. That gap widens by $18,000 every year the region stays where it is, because the standard keeps climbing while the revenue stands still.

By year 20 the standard exceeds the first quarter's average. $6,840,000 against $6,162,068. Only the system's single highest-selling region cleared that figure in 2025, at $8,243,733. So a renewed term ends at a bar the great majority of the current system sits below.

The system average falls under the standard at year 11. $3,600,000 against $3,453,102. That is the first year of a renewed term, which makes renewal the natural moment to model the standard.

Missing the client bid target risks the region itself. Beyond a $150 charge for each bid below the minimum, the franchisor may reduce or redefine the area on notice. In a model where the region is the asset, that is the sharpest term in the agreement.

Fees and what it costs to open

Seven percent plus $56,600.

Annual obligations at each quartile average, applying the published rates *Averan calculation
quartile	Average annual sales	Royalty and support at 7%	Client marketing	System access	Total	Share
First	$6,162,068	$431,345	$50,000	$6,600	$487,945	7.9%
Second	$3,984,876	$278,941	$50,000	$6,600	$335,541	8.4%
All 37	$3,453,102	$241,717	$50,000	$6,600	$298,317	8.6%
Third	$2,642,270	$184,959	$50,000	$6,600	$241,559	9.1%
Fourth	$1,266,186	$88,633	$50,000	$6,600	$145,233	11.5%

Ours, applying the published rates to the published average annual sales.

Fixed obligations are $56,600 a year whatever the region bills. $50,000 of required client marketing and $6,600 of system access *. At the fourth quarter's $1,266,186 that alone is 4.5% of sales. At the first quarter's $6,162,068 it is 0.9%.

The percentage charges are 7% before anything else. A 5% royalty plus a 2% administrative support fee, both monthly. The document allows an advertising fund charge of up to 2.2% and a technology fee of up to 1.5%. Neither is currently charged. Together they would take the percentage load to 10.7%.

Taking the optional website service adds $18,000 a year. $1,500 a month. On top of the $50,000 marketing requirement, a regional owner taking that service pays $74,600 a year in fixed costs *. That is 5.9% of a bottom-quartile region's sales before the royalty starts.

Each unit franchise sold costs the regional owner a $400 fee. Paid on the sale. Since the revenue from selling unit franchises is counted inside average annual sales, that fee sits against the same line the performance standard measures.

Buying a region.

Estimated initial investment, as the brand reported it, Item 7 of the 2026 FDD
Item	Low	High
Initial subfranchise fee	$98,000	$98,000
Marketing and advertising, six months	$50,000	$100,000
Additional funds, six months	$20,000	$40,000
Equipment, fixtures and computer systems	$15,000	$25,000
Lease, utility deposits and rent	$10,000	$20,000
Miscellaneous start-up costs	$10,000	$20,000
Legal and accounting	$5,000	$15,000
Insurance	$5,000	$10,000
Vehicle operating expenses	$3,000	$6,000
Travel for training	$2,000	$3,000
Office supplies	$1,000	$2,000
Total	$219,000	$339,000

As the brand reported it, reordered here by size.

The fee is 45% of the low column and marketing is 23%. $98,000 and $50,000 of $219,000 *. This is a sales business being bought: the largest lines after the fee are marketing and the salary of the people doing the selling.

Cash to run the business day to day covers six months. $20,000 to $40,000, alongside six months of marketing and rent already in the table. A region earns by signing unit franchisees and winning contracts, and both take longer than a single quarter.

A regional owner produces its own disclosure document and audited accounts every year. Inside a $5,000 to $15,000 legal and accounting line. That is a recurring compliance obligation of a kind most franchise owners avoid entirely, and it puts an annual audit on the calendar from year one.

Questions we get asked

Questions owners ask.

What should an Anago region be billing?

Across 37 regional owners trading a full calendar year, 2025 average annual sales were $3,453,102 with a median of $3,531,399, and 51% reached the average. quartile averages ran $6,162,068 and $3,984,876 in the upper half, $2,642,270 and $1,266,186 in the lower. The highest region billed $8,243,733 and the lowest $282,393. Read that headline figure carefully: it is what unit franchisees billed clients in the region plus what the regional owner collected from selling unit franchises. Differs from the gross revenues fees are set on. Further deductions come out of the regional owner's share. There were 44 franchised regions and one company-owned at the end of 2025.

How does the minimum performance standard work?

From the first anniversary of opening, the region must generate minimum monthly gross revenues of $30,000. That figure rises by a further $30,000 on every subsequent anniversary, $60,000 in year 3, $90,000 in year 4 and so on. The royalty is 5% of the greater of the previous month's actual gross revenues or the applicable standard. So a region below the line pays on revenue it failed to produce. Annualized, the standard reaches $3,240,000 by year 10 and $6,840,000 by year 20, which is marked *. Against the published sales figures, the bottom quarter's $1,266,186 is below the standard from year 5, the system average is below it from year 11. The first quarter's $6,162,068 from year 19.

Is the system growing?

Average annual sales rose from $2,739,828 in 2022 to $3,453,102 in 2025, a 26.0% increase. The median rose 61.2% from $2,190,135 to $3,531,399, both of which are marked *. The share reaching the average climbed from 42% to 51% over the same four years. Each year’s series covers 90% to 93% of regional owners and the membership shifts between years, so read it as a trend. Franchised regions fell from 47 at the end of 2023 to 44 at the end of 2025. Owners converted to a market developer model while continuing to trade.

What does the brand take?

A 5% royalty on the greater of actual gross revenues or the minimum performance standard, plus a 2% administrative support fee on gross revenues collected, both monthly. System access to the franchisor's business development software is $550 a month, and website maintenance, where the franchisor takes it on, is $1,500 a month. At least $50,000 a calendar year must be spent marketing Anago services to clients in the region, with any shortfall payable to the franchisor. Each unit franchise sold costs $400. Each client bid below the required minimum costs $150. Late monthly reports cost $100 a day. Transfers cost $10,000. Credit card processing through the franchisor is 4.75% a transaction. An advertising fund contribution of up to 2.2% and a technology fee of up to 1.5% are disclosed and currently uncollected.

Who does bookkeeping for an Anago region?

Three mechanics shape the close. The royalty is charged on the greater of actual gross revenues or a performance standard that rises every anniversary. The amount owed has a minimum that rises once a year, on the anniversary of opening. The gap between the two has to be forecast well before the anniversary arrives. Second, three different revenue measures run through this agreement. Average annual sales as published, gross revenues as the royalty defines them. The regional owner's own income after deductions and adjustments. The monthly close has to reconcile them, because each one sets a different charge. Third, a regional owner produces its own franchise disclosure document with audited financial statements every year, which makes the books a filing document. Underneath that sit unit franchisee statements, billing and collections on their behalf, and a $50,000 marketing spend that must be evidenced. Averan provides bookkeeping, controller, and fractional CFO support for franchise owners and has Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisors on the team.

What this filing does not disclose

No profit figure. The filing reports sales and not earnings, so what an owner keeps is not disclosed.
No cost lines. Wages, rent and cost of goods are not broken out, so margin cannot be rebuilt from the document.

Questions worth putting to Anago Cleaning Systems

The filing answers what it answers. These are the gaps an owner or a buyer should close directly.

What do locations at the median spend on wages and rent as a share of sales? The filing reports sales only.
What separates the highest-selling locations from the lowest: trade area, years open, size, or the owner?
How long does a new location take to reach the average you publish, and what does the build-up look like month by month?
At what level of sales do the minimum charges stop applying and the percentage take over?
How many Anago Cleaning Systems locations closed, were sold, or changed hands last year, and why?

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Where these figures come from.

Every figure here comes from Anago Franchising, Inc.’s 2026 FDD and is unaudited by us. We are unaffiliated with the brand. Calculations of our own are labeled where they appear, the figures describe past performance at other businesses and are not a projection of yours. This page is an educational summary. It is not an offer to sell a franchise, and it is not financial, legal or tax advice. Anago Cleaning Systems® is a registered trademark of its owner. How Averan reads a Franchise Disclosure Document.

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