How much does a Garage Force franchise make?

The average Garage Force unit reported $422,998 of revenue in the 2026 FDD, and the median reported $318,744. 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 9% 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

Garage Force franchise unit economics

Q: What does the published profit per invoice actually mean?

Average profit per invoice is defined as annual gross revenue less continuing fees, branding fees and product costs, divided by invoices. Tested against all 69 rows, each printed figure actually equals revenue less product cost alone divided by invoices, with the 5% continuing fee and 1% branding fee left in, which is marked *. Applying the fees as defined gives $2,891 an invoice at the system average instead of the printed $3,152, $261 a job, or $25,380 a year. The figure also sits before labor, the vehicle and fuel, premises, insurance, local advertising, professional fees and the owner’s own pay, so it is a contribution measure.

Garage Force franchisees coat garage and concrete minimums from a branded trailer, working a territory of about 200,000 people. Every one of the 69 qualifying businesses has its revenue, product cost, invoice count, average ticket and profit per invoice, so the whole distribution is reconstructible. The system average is $422,998 on 97 invoices a year, under two a week.

By Scott Engler · Averan Advisors · Source: Garage Force, 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD) · Updated 22 September 2026

Where these figures come from

Primary source: Garage Force, 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document
Items read: Item 7 for cost to open; Item 19 for sales and any profit figure
Population: 69 of 301 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 average business wrote 97 invoices in 2025, under two a week, at $4,498 each. The highest-selling wrote 460 and the lowest-selling 22. Across all 69, revenue tracks invoice count at a correlation of 0.87 and ticket size at 0.22.

Businesses reporting69 of 301 franchised

Average sales$422,998

Invoices a year97 at $4,498

Total investment$132,900–$200,600

Ninety-seven invoices a year is the entire operating calendar. 1.9 a week at the average and 1.4 at the median; 43 of the 69 businesses wrote fewer than 100 *.
Revenue follows job count, barely price. Correlation of 0.87 against invoice count and 0.22 against ticket, across all 69 businesses *.
The published profit per invoice leaves out the fees its own definition subtracts. All 69 rows equal revenue less product cost divided by invoices; applying the 5% continuing and 1% branding fees as stated gives $2,891 against $3,152 *.
Product cost runs from 17.7% to 56.4% of revenue on identical work. A 38.7-point range *; moving the average business from 30.0% to 20.0% is worth $42,300 a year.
$124,500 of the $132,900 low-end build goes to the franchisor. 93.7% *, the $49,500 fee, a $65,000 equipment package and $10,000 of coating products.

Top performers

What separates the top Garage Force performers

Garage Force splits its locations into groups instead of publishing one average. The best group averaged $1,301,965 a year. The worst averaged $125,096. Both run the same brand, on the same agreement, paying the same fees. The middle location sold $318,744. The average was $422,998. More than half the system is below the number the brand quotes.

Decided before you open

Trade area and site.A 10.4× gap between bands is not an operating gap. Catchment, daytime population and what sits next door set the ceiling before the first customer arrives.
Capacity, fixed at build.capacity is None vans multiplied by hours multiplied by how full they run. What you can sell is set by the build, and the build does not change after opening.
Territory, and how much of it is real.This model sells from a territory rather than a building, quoted at 200,000 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 $132,900 to $200,600, 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

Cost of what you sell.Products and materials take 30.0% of sales. Buying terms, price discipline and waste are where this is won, and each of them compounds at volume.
Jobs, the operating driver.This model bills on jobs. Every job is won again, so the owner works on how many quotes turn into work and what the average job is worth when it does. It is worth watching every week, because by the time it turns up in a monthly close the quarter is half gone.
Fees, and where the minimum bites.Fees run about 9.0% 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.

Context you underwrite around

The reporting screen.69 of 301 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. The brand’s own locations are the only margin signal in the document, and they are run by the people who wrote the playbook.

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 Garage Force location is not disclosed. What it does publish is on the Model and Finance tabs.

The 69 businesses

Ten times, and it is all volume.

First

$823,359

Second

$415,176

Third

$271,719

Fourth

$182,196

2025 results for the 69 reporting businesses, ranked by revenue and grouped into quartiles *Averan calculation
quartile	Businesses	Average revenue	Median	Range	Invoices a year	Invoices a week	Ticket	Product cost
First	17	$823,359	$733,925	$555,568 – $1,301,965	185	3.6	$4,455	26.7%
All 69	69	$422,998	$318,744	$125,096 – $1,301,965	97	1.9	$4,498	30.0%
Second	18	$415,176	$401,076	$318,744 – $546,190	92	1.8	$4,529	29.7%
Third	17	$271,719	$282,206	$222,365 – $312,520	66	1.3	$4,106	31.8%
Fourth	17	$182,196	$188,096	$125,096 – $219,613	46	0.9	$3,951	30.9%

Ours throughout, built by ranking the 69 individually published businesses.

The top quartile averages $823,359 and the bottom $182,196. Four and a half times, and the single highest-selling business billed $1,301,965 against the lowest-selling at $125,096. Seventeen businesses take 48.0% of the system's revenue and the bottom seventeen take 10.6% *.

Ticket price moves 14.6% across the quartiles while job count moves four times. $3,951 to $4,529 against 46 to 185 invoices *. The second quartile actually charges the most per job of any group and still bills half what the first does. Settles where the operating attention belongs.

Forty-three of the 69 businesses wrote fewer than 100 invoices. Fourteen wrote fewer than 52, under one a week *. At the average ticket of $4,498, one additional job a week is worth $233,896 a year. That exceeds the entire revenue of the lowest-selling business in the system.

The median business bills $318,744 against an average of $422,998. 75% of it, with 26 of 69 reaching the average. That gap is created by five businesses above $1,000,000 in a system where 22 sit below $250,000.

Only 69 of 301 open businesses appear here. Ninety-five had traded under a year and 137 run seasonally, part-time, absentee or across several territories. So this table describes the full-time single-territory model the brand currently sells, and the other 137 are trading on a basis it has stopped offering.

Invoices and job value

The job count is the business.

Published measures across the 69 businesses, as the brand reported it, with derived relationships added *Averan calculation
Measure	Average	Median	Highest	Lowest	Reaching the average
Annual sales	$422,998	$318,744	$1,301,965	$125,096	26 of 69
Annual invoices	97	72	460	22	26 of 69
Average invoice	$4,498	$4,446	$8,608	$2,577	32 of 69
Annual product cost	$121,541	$98,676	$344,264	$31,732	28 of 69
Published profit per invoice	$3,152	$3,066	$6,229	$1,542	32 of 69
Profit per invoice after the fees *	$2,891	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Correlation of revenue with invoice count *	0.87	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Correlation of revenue with ticket *	0.22	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

Published rows are as the brand reported it and every one of them reproduces exactly from the 69 individually named businesses.

Revenue correlates with invoice count at 0.87 and with ticket at 0.22. *, across all 69 businesses. Twenty-one businesses charge $5,000 or more a job and average $505,018 on 89 invoices; thirteen charge under $3,500 and average $365,778 on 125 invoices. The higher ticket is worth 38% more revenue on 29% fewer jobs.

The published profit per invoice is $261 higher than its own definition produces. *. Read as printed, the average business clears $3,152 of contribution a job; read as defined, $2,891. Across 97 invoices that is $25,380 a year, the exact value of the 6% in fees.

The highest-selling business wrote 460 invoices at $2,577 each. The lowest ticket in the entire system, on four and a half times the average job count, producing $1,185,248. The second highest-selling wrote 282 at $4,617. Both routes to seven figures run through volume.

The highest ticket in the system is $8,608 across 144 invoices. $1,239,530 of revenue, and the highest published profit per invoice at $6,229. That business sits in the top quartile on both measures at once, which the correlation figures say is the rarer path.

Two businesses print identical revenue and invoice counts. $216,304 and 41 invoices each, with product costs of $75,725 and $75,752. Two more share a product cost of $84,752 on different revenue. Worth noting before treating any individual row as a distinct observation.

Product cost

Thirty percent, give or take twenty points.

Product cost as a share of revenue, and what remains after fees *Averan calculation
Business	Revenue	Product cost	Share	Fees at 6%	Digital and technology	Remaining
Highest-selling	$1,301,965	$344,264	26.4%	$78,118	$12,500	$867,083
Top quartile average	$823,359	$219,837	26.7%	$49,402	$12,500	$541,620
System average	$422,998	$126,984	30.0%	$25,380	$12,500	$258,134
System median	$318,744	$95,687	30.0%	$19,125	$12,500	$191,432
Fourth quartile average	$182,196	$56,299	30.9%	$10,932	$12,500	$102,465
Lowest-selling	$125,096	$52,383	41.9%	$7,506	$12,500	$52,707
Highest product cost share	$243,384	$137,156	56.4%	$14,603	$12,500	$79,125
Lowest product cost share	$733,925	$129,581	17.7%	$44,036	$12,500	$547,808

Revenue and product cost are as the brand reported it for each named business; shares, fees and the remaining column are marked *.

Product cost runs from 17.7% to 56.4% of revenue. A 38.7-point range on the same coatings from the same exclusive supplier *. Moving the average business from 30.0% to 20.0% is worth $42,300 a year, more than the entire fee bill.

The business with the highest product cost share bills $243,384 and spends $137,156 on materials. 56.4%. After fees and the fixed digital and technology charges it has $79,125 left to cover labor, the vehicle, premises, insurance and its own pay *, against $547,808 at the business with the lowest share.

The fixed digital and technology charges are $12,500 a year. 3.9% of the median business's revenue and 10.0% of the lowest-selling one's *. At the top quartile it is 1.5%. That single line is the sharpest compression in the fee structure.

The franchisor’s own location reported 60.75% of revenue across nine named expenses. On $601,117 of revenue and 100 invoices, with product cost at 29% and labor at 14% before the owner’s salary. That figure sits before professional fees, licensing, rent, utilities and depreciation, so the real total is higher.

The top quartile buys materials at 26.7% of revenue and the third quartile at 31.8%. *. Five points of difference between groups doing the same work. On the third quarter's $271,719 is $13,860 a year. It arrives through job specification and waste.

Fees and what it costs to open

Six percent plus $12,500.

Annual franchisor charges at each published level *Averan calculation
Business	Revenue	Continuing fee	Branding fee	Digital marketing	Technology	Total	Share
Highest-selling	$1,301,965	$65,098	$13,020	$12,000	$500	$90,618	7.0%
Top quartile average	$823,359	$41,168	$8,234	$12,000	$500	$61,902	7.5%
System average	$422,998	$21,150	$4,230	$12,000	$500	$37,880	9.0%
System median	$318,744	$15,937	$3,187	$12,000	$500	$31,624	9.9%
Fourth quartile average	$182,196	$9,110	$1,822	$12,000	$500	$23,432	12.9%
Lowest-selling	$125,096	$6,255	$1,251	$12,000	$500	$20,006	16.0%

Ours, applying the published rates to filed revenue.

Total charges run 7.0% at the highest-selling business and 16.0% at the lowest-selling business. *. A nine-point swing built almost entirely by the $12,500 of fixed digital and technology charges. That is 1.0% of the highest-selling business's revenue and 10.0% of the lowest-selling one's.

Fees are collected three days after the money lands. Against monthly in arrears. On a $4,498 job that is $270 leaving within 72 hours of the customer paying. That makes the fee obligation a cash-timing question as much as a cost one.

The branding fee is refundable against matching advertising spend. 1% of revenue, held until written evidence is produced. At the system average that is $4,230 a year recoverable by documenting advertising the business was likely doing anyway *, a real return on paperwork.

Product cost is a payment to the franchisor as well. The exclusive supplier of coatings takes 30.0% of revenue on top of the 9.0% in fees at the system average *. Read together, the brand receives about 39 cents of every dollar this business collects.

What it costs to open a territory.

Estimated initial investment, as the brand reported it, Item 7 of the 2026 FDD
Item	Low	High
Initial equipment package	$65,000	$65,000
Initial fee	$49,500	$49,500
Vehicle	$1,500	$41,500
Additional funds, three months	$3,600	$12,100
Initial coating products	$10,000	$10,000
Wages, travel and living during training	$1,000	$5,000
Computer hardware and software	$600	$5,000
Office and storage space, three months	$0	$3,000
Opening assistance and travel	$0	$2,500
Office furniture, supplies and equipment	$0	$2,500
Insurance, three months	$300	$2,100
Professional services	$900	$1,900
Grand opening advertising	$500	$500
Total	$132,900	$200,600

As the brand reported it, reordered here by size.

$124,500 of the $132,900 low column goes to the franchisor. 93.7% *, the fee, the equipment package and the coating products. Barely a dollar at the low end of this build is bought from anyone else, which is unusual even among equipment-led models.

The vehicle has 59% of the difference between the two columns. $1,500 to $41,500 against a total range of $132,900 to $200,600 *. A franchisee already owning a truck with towing capacity builds at close to the minimum.

Cash to run the business day to day of $3,600 to $12,100 covers three months. Against fixed digital and technology charges alone of $3,125 across the same quarter *. At the average business's rate of 1.9 invoices a week, the first quarter produces about 24 jobs. The low estimate leaves $475 for everything beyond those two fixed charges.

Ground is priced at 25 cents a head above the baseline. So a 300,000-person single territory costs $74,500 against $49,500 for a 200,000-person one. At the system's 97 invoices a year against a 200,000 baseline, that is 48.6 jobs per hundred thousand people *. The extra ground is cheap and almost entirely unworked.

Questions we get asked

Questions owners ask.

What should a Garage Force business be billing?

Across the 69 businesses open and trading full-time on a single territory for all of 2025, average sales was $422,998 with a median of $318,744. 26 of 69 reached the average. The highest billed $1,301,965 and the lowest $125,096. Grouped into quartiles the averages were $823,359, $415,176, $271,719 and $182,196, which is marked *. Five businesses billed over $1,000,000 and 22 billed under $250,000. There were 301 franchised businesses and five company-owned at 31 December 2025. The other 232 open franchises are outside these figures because they traded under a year or run seasonally, part-time, absentee or across several territories.

How many jobs is that?

The average business wrote 97 invoices a year at $4,498 each. A median of 72 and a range from 460 down to 22, 1.9 jobs a week at the average and 1.4 at the median, which is marked *. Forty-three of the 69 wrote fewer than 100 invoices and fourteen wrote fewer than 52. By quartile the counts were 185, 92, 66 and 46 a year. Revenue correlates with invoice count at 0.87 and with ticket size at 0.22, so job volume.

What does the published profit per invoice actually mean?

Average profit per invoice is defined as annual sales less continuing fees, branding fees and product costs, divided by invoices. Tested against all 69 rows, each printed figure actually equals revenue less product cost alone divided by invoices. The 5% continuing fee and 1% branding fee left in, which is marked *. Applying the fees as defined gives $2,891 an invoice at the system average instead of the printed $3,152, $261 a job, or $25,380 a year. The figure also sits before labor, the vehicle and fuel, premises, insurance, local advertising, professional fees and the owner’s own pay, so it is a contribution measure.

What does the brand take?

A 5% continuing fee and a 1% branding fee on gross revenues, both due within three days of the revenue being received. Branding fees are held by the franchisor until written evidence of matching advertising spend is supplied, then refunded. Digital marketing costs $1,000 a month per contiguous territory area and technology $500 a year, both of which may rise by up to 10% annually. The digital fee is credited against the local advertising requirement. Separately, the franchisor is the exclusive supplier of coating products, which took 30.0% of revenue on average across the 69 businesses. Total fees run 7.0% of revenue at the highest-selling business and 16.0% at the bottom quarter, which is marked *.

Who does bookkeeping for a Garage Force franchise?

Three mechanics shape the close. Fees are drawn three days after revenue is received. So the fee liability moves with collections and the cash forecast has to model it job by job. Second, the branding fee is refundable against documented advertising spend. Turns 1% of revenue into a recoverable balance that has to be tracked and evidenced, $4,230 a year at the system average, which is marked *. Third, product cost is the single largest controllable line at 30.0% of revenue with a published range from 17.7% to 56.4%. So tracking materials by job. A ten-point improvement is worth $42,300 at the average business. Underneath all of it, 97 invoices a year makes each job a material event, and a single lost quote changes the quarter. 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.

Questions worth putting to Garage Force

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 Garage Force 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 Garage Force’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. Garage Force® is a registered trademark of its owner. How Averan reads a Franchise Disclosure Document.

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