How much does a Mister Sparky franchise make?

The average Mister Sparky unit reported $1,227,530 of revenue in the 2026 FDD, and the median reported $455,253. 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 13.5% 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

Mister Sparky franchise unit economics

Q: What should a Mister Sparky territory be billing?

Across 185 territories held by 60 franchisees, 2025 gross revenue averaged $1,227,530 a territory with a median of $455,253, and 39% of territories reached the average. Ranked into quartiles by revenue per territory, the averages were $2,836,912 across 56 territories, $1,091,031 across 40, $352,695 across 53 and $163,663 across 36. The highest-selling territory billed $6,790,925 and the lowest-selling $14,460. There were 78 franchisees operating in 249 territories at 31 December 2025.

Q: How concentrated is the system?

Heavily. Ranked by franchisee, the top quarter of 15 owners holds 74 territories and billed $179,373,022, 79% of the system's revenue. Inside that quartile a single franchisee billed $73,346,184, which is 32.3% of the whole system and 21 times its own quarter's $3,451,581 minimum, both of which are marked *. Revenue per territory rises with owner size: $183,497 at the bottom quarter, $367,804, $556,649 and $2,423,960 at the top. Only 23% of franchisees reach the $3,784,883 system average, and the median franchisee bills $1,413,147.

Q: What does the brand take?

The royalty is the greater of 6% of gross revenue or $1,500 a month per territory, drawn semi-monthly. The brand fund contribution is 1.5% of the first $5,000,000 of gross revenue in a calendar year, stepping down to 1.25%, 1%, 0.75% and zero above $20,000,000, resetting each January, with contiguous territories combined and a 4% ceiling. A local marketing spend of 6% of the calendar year's cumulative gross revenue is required from the third month, and the franchisor may collect and spend it on the franchisee's behalf. Grand opening marketing runs to $18,000. Together the percentage charges are 13.5% of gross revenue at most levels, falling to 12.3% for the largest owner and rising to 18.5% where the royalty minimum binds, all of which are marked *.

Mister Sparky franchisees run electricians and service vans across a territory of about 200,000 people. Among 60 owners, the top quartile gets $2,423,960 from each territory. The bottom quarter gets $183,497 from the same size of area, worked at a different intensity. One franchisee alone billed $73,346,184, 32.3% of the whole system.

By Scott Engler · Averan Advisors · Source: Mister Sparky Franchising, L.L.C., 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD) · Updated 22 September 2026

Where these figures come from

Primary source: Mister Sparky Franchising, L.L.C., 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document
Items read: Item 7 for cost to open; Item 19 for sales and any profit figure; Item 20 for the location count
Population: 185 of 249 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

One franchisee billed $73,346,184, 32.3% of the whole system's $227,092,982. Ranked by owner, the top quartile draws $2,423,960 from each territory it holds; the bottom quartile draws $183,497. Thirteen times, on ground of the same size.

Units reporting60 franchisees, 185 territories

Average per territory$1,227,530

sales same-store growth14.3%

Total investment$133,273–$276,702

The largest franchisee is a third of the system. $73,346,184 of $227,092,982 *, across a top quartile whose next-largest member billed $3,451,581.
Bigger owners draw thirteen times more from each territory. $2,423,960 a territory in the top quartile of owners against $183,497 in the bottom *.
sales same-store sales grew 14.3% across 143 territories. $185,022,593 to $211,542,716 for 46 franchisees trading both years.
Brand and marketing charges take 13.5% of sales. 6% royalty, 1.5% brand fund and 6% required local marketing *, rising to 18.5% where the royalty minimum binds.
The brand fund falls to 0.31% for the largest owner. $225,000 on $73,346,184 against the 1.5% everyone under $5,000,000 pays *, a $875,193 difference.

Top performers

What separates the top Mister Sparky performers

Mister Sparky splits its locations into groups instead of publishing one average. The best group averaged $2,836,912 a year. The worst averaged $163,663. Both run the same brand, on the same agreement, paying the same fees. The middle location sold $455,253. The average was $1,227,530. More than half the system is below the number the brand quotes.

Decided before you open

Trade area and site.A 17.3× 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 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 $133,273 to $276,702, a 2.1× 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

Members, the operating driver.This model bills on members. The owner watches how many people join, how many cancel, and what a member spends beyond the plan. 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 13.5% 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.185 of 249 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

Top 25%

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

By territory

Seventeen times, top to bottom.

Top 25%

$158,867,060

Second

$43,641,224

Third

$18,692,831

Bottom 25%

$5,891,867

2025 sales by territory, ranked into quartiles, as the brand reported it, with the fee load added *Averan calculation
quartile	Franchisees	Territories	Aggregate revenue	Average per territory	Median	Lowest	Highest	Fee load *
Top 25%	15	56	$158,867,060	$2,836,912	$3,595,518	$1,893,286	$6,790,925	13.5%
All	60	185	$227,092,982	$1,227,530	$455,253	$14,460	$6,790,925	13.5%
Second	15	40	$43,641,224	$1,091,031	$918,203	$468,338	$1,803,829	13.5%
Third	15	53	$18,692,831	$352,695	$373,919	$291,007	$442,168	13.5%
Bottom 25%	15	36	$5,891,867	$163,663	$195,170	$14,460	$266,745	18.5%

Counts, aggregates, averages, medians and ranges are as the brand reported it. We worked out the fee column, applying the 6% royalty or its $1,500 monthly minimum, the 1.5% brand fund and the 6% of required local marketing spend to each level.

A top-quarter territory bills $2,836,912 and a bottom-quarter one $163,663. Seventeen times, on territories of roughly the same 200,000-person size. The highest-selling single territory billed $6,790,925 and the lowest-selling $14,460, 470 times inside one brand.

The system median of $455,253 is 37% of its average. $1,227,530 against $455,253, with 39% of territories reaching the average. The mean here describes the top quartile, and any forecast built on it overshoots a typical territory by $772,277 a year.

The third quarter by sales has the narrowest range in the system. $291,007 to $442,168 across 53 territories, a 1.5-fold range where the top quartile differs 3.6 times over. Fifty-five percent of that group reaches its own average, and it holds 29% of the system's territories on 8% of its revenue.

Fifty-one of the top quarter's 56 territories opened before 2020. Against 24 of the bottom quarter's 36 opening in 2024 alone. Most of the difference is how long each territory has been open. The top group has been trading for years. The bottom group is mostly territories opened recently.

Sixty-five percent of second-quartile territories beat their own average. 26 of 40, the highest attainment in the table. That group runs from $468,338 to $1,803,829. Half sell less than $918,203, and the average is $1,091,031.

By owner

One owner, a third of the system.

The same 60 franchisees ranked by total sales, as the brand reported it, with per-territory figures added, Item 20 of the 2026 FDD*Averan calculation
quartile	Franchisees	Territories	Aggregate revenue	Average per franchisee	Median	Range	Territories each *	Revenue per territory *
Top 25%	15	74	$179,373,022	$11,958,201	$8,566,582	$3,451,581 – $73,346,184	4.9	$2,423,960
All	60	185	$227,092,982	$3,784,883	$1,413,147	$19,603 – $73,346,184	3.1	$1,227,530
Second	15	57	$31,729,012	$2,115,267	$1,893,286	$1,426,568 – $3,233,149	3.8	$556,649
Third	15	33	$12,137,519	$809,168	$747,837	$454,053 – $1,399,726	2.2	$367,804
Bottom 25%	15	21	$3,853,429	$256,895	$266,745	$19,603 – $436,758	1.4	$183,497

Counts, aggregates, averages, medians and ranges are as the brand reported it; the territories-each and revenue-per-territory columns are marked *.

One franchisee billed $73,346,184. 32.3% of the whole system's sales *, and 21 times the $3,451,581 of the lowest owner in its own quarter. That single business is larger than the second and third quartiles combined, which together hold 90 territories across 30 franchisees.

Revenue per territory rises thirteenfold with owner size. $183,497, $367,804, $556,649, $2,423,960 *. Most multi-unit brands in this library show the reverse. Here, holding 4.9 territories comes with drawing far more from each of them, though the single outlier at the top does much of that work.

The median franchisee bills $1,413,147 against an average of $3,784,883. 37% of it, and only 23% of franchisees reach the average. Both this table and the territory table put the typical operator at roughly a third of the published mean.

The bottom quartile holds 21 territories across 15 franchisees. 1.4 each, averaging $256,895 in total. Seven of those 15 first began operating in 2024. That group holds both new entrants and long-standing small territories. The lowest sells $19,603.

Attainment falls as size rises: 60%, 40%, 47%, 13%. Two of the 15 top-quarter franchisees reach their own average, which is what a $73,346,184 member does to a group whose next largest billed $3,451,581.

Fees and what it costs to open

Thirteen and a half percent, until scale bites.

Annual brand and marketing obligations at each published level *Averan calculation
Level	Sales	Royalty	Brand fund	Brand fund rate	Local marketing	Total	Share
Largest franchisee	$73,346,184	$4,400,771	$225,000	0.31%	$4,400,771	$9,026,542	12.3%
Top-quarter franchisee	$11,958,201	$717,492	$157,082	1.31%	$717,492	$1,592,066	13.3%
Average franchisee	$3,784,883	$227,093	$56,773	1.50%	$227,093	$510,959	13.5%
Top-quarter territory	$2,836,912	$170,215	$42,554	1.50%	$170,215	$382,984	13.5%
Average territory	$1,227,530	$73,652	$18,413	1.50%	$73,652	$165,717	13.5%
Third-quartile territory	$352,695	$21,162	$5,290	1.50%	$21,162	$47,614	13.5%
Bottom-quarter territory	$163,663	$18,000	$2,455	1.50%	$9,820	$30,275	18.5%
Lowest-selling territory	$14,460	$18,000	$217	1.50%	$868	$19,085	132.0%

Ours, applying the published rates to filed revenue.

The percentage charges come to 13.5% of sales. $165,717 on an average territory and $510,959 on an average franchisee *. The marketing side, 1.5% brand fund plus 6% local spend, is larger than the royalty itself.

The $1,500 monthly royalty minimum binds below $300,000 a territory. *. The bottom quartile averages $163,663, where 6% would produce $9,820 against the $18,000 owed. Its total load reaches 18.5%, and at the system's lowest-selling territory of $14,460 the minimum alone exceeds the year's revenue.

The brand fund costs the largest owner 0.31% and everyone under $5,000,000 pays 1.5%. A $875,193 difference on $73,346,184 *. Contiguous territories are combined for the tier test, so the structure rewards clustered scale twice, once in the rate and once in the aggregation.

Local marketing is measured on the calendar year's cumulative revenue. Against set in advance. A business growing 14.3% a year, as the sales same-store figure shows, spends more as it goes. That is the gentler shape for a building up franchise.

What it costs to open a territory.

Estimated initial investment, one territory of 200,000 people, as the brand reported it, Item 7 of the 2026 FDD
Item	Low	High
Additional funds, three months	$60,000	$90,000
Franchise fee	$33,000	$33,000
Full-time general or operations manager	$0	$25,750
Professional fees and licensing	$4,635	$20,600
Vehicles	$8,240	$15,450
Machinery, tools and equipment	$3,090	$10,300
Rent or lease of real estate	$3,090	$9,270
Vehicle signage	$0	$8,240
Initial vehicle inventory	$2,575	$8,240
Insurance	$4,120	$8,240
Grand opening marketing	$0	$6,000
Travel for initial training	$2,575	$5,150
Vehicle upfitting	$0	$5,150
Office signage	$1,030	$5,150
Start-up supplies	$2,575	$5,150
Vehicle registration	$2,266	$4,532
Computer, technology systems and software	$1,854	$4,120
Office furniture and equipment	$1,545	$4,120
Building work	$1,030	$4,120
Personal tools for technicians	$1,030	$3,090
Consumer unit decals	$309	$515
Telephone services	$309	$515
Total	$133,273	$276,702

As the brand reported it, reordered here by size.

The franchise fee is 25% of the low column. $33,000 of $133,273 *, against an average territory billing $1,227,530 a year, a fee of 2.7% of a single year's revenue. Among the lightest entry prices relative to revenue anywhere in this library.

Fees actually collected ran from $2,000 to $39,752. The minimum is 6% of the list price. With a 30% expansion discount and the system's concentration among large multi-territory owners, most fees in this brand are being paid at a discount.

Cash to run the business day to day of $60,000 to $90,000 is the largest line. Nearly three times the franchise fee. Electrical work is dispatched and billed on completion, so the reserve funds licensed technicians, vans and inventory before the call volume arrives.

Ground costs 16.5 cents a head above 200,000 people. Against an average territory billing $1,227,530, $6.14 of revenue for every person in a 200,000-person territory *. The cheapest ground per head of any brand in this category, and the published figures show the largest owners drawing the most from it.

The network of locations

Fourteen percent, same stores.

sales same-store revenue growth and system composition, as the brand reported it, with derived figures added *Averan calculation
Measure	Value
sales same-store revenue, 2024	$185,022,593
sales same-store revenue, 2025	$211,542,716
Year-over-year growth	14.3%
sales same-store territories	143
sales same-store franchisees	46
Revenue per sales same-store territory, 2025 *	$1,479,320
Revenue per sales same-store territory, 2024 *	$1,293,864
Franchisees at 31 December 2025	78
Territories at 31 December 2025	249
Franchisees opening during 2025	20, holding 48 territories
Franchisees ceasing during 2025	9, holding 12 territories

Every published figure is as the brand reported it; the two per-territory rows are marked *.

sales same-store revenue rose 14.3% across 143 territories. $185,022,593 to $211,542,716. Per territory that is $1,293,864 rising to $1,479,320 *, $185,455 of additional revenue on the same ground, and a rate well above the general inflation of the period.

Twenty new franchisees opened in 2025 holding 48 territories. Against nine ceasing with 12. The system added territories at four times the rate it lost them. The new group took 2.4 territories each on entry.

The sales same-store group is 143 of 249 territories. 57% of the system trading in both years. The other 43% is either newly opened, newly ceased, or outside the reporting group. That is worth holding in mind when reading a growth figure this strong.

Questions we get asked

Questions owners ask.

What should a Mister Sparky territory be billing?

Across 185 territories held by 60 franchisees, 2025 sales averaged $1,227,530 a territory with a median of $455,253, and 39% of territories reached the average. Ranked into quartiles by revenue per territory, the averages were $2,836,912 across 56 territories, $1,091,031 across 40, $352,695 across 53 and $163,663 across 36. The highest-selling territory billed $6,790,925 and the lowest-selling $14,460. There were 78 franchisees operating in 249 territories at 31 December 2025.

How concentrated is the system?

Heavily. Ranked by franchisee, the top quartile of 15 owners holds 74 territories and billed $179,373,022, 79% of the system's revenue. Inside that quartile a single franchisee billed $73,346,184. That is 32.3% of the whole system and 21 times the $3,451,581 of the lowest owner in its own quarter *. Revenue per territory rises with owner size: $183,497 at the bottom quartile, $367,804, $556,649 and $2,423,960 at the top. Only 23% of franchisees reach the $3,784,883 system average, and the median franchisee bills $1,413,147.

Is the system growing?

The published sales same-store figure says yes. Forty-six franchisees holding 143 territories that traded through both 2024 and 2025 grew revenue 14.3%, from $185,022,593 to $211,542,716, $1,293,864 to $1,479,320 a territory, which is marked *. Twenty new franchisees opened during 2025 holding 48 territories, against nine ceasing with 12 between them, all of which had traded at least 12 months. The sales same-store group covers 143 of the system's 249 territories. So 43% of the system sits outside that growth figure.

What does the brand take?

The royalty is the greater of 6% of sales or $1,500 a month per territory, drawn semi-monthly. The brand fund takes 1.5% of the first $5,000,000 of sales in a year, then 1.25%, then 1%, then 0.75%, and nothing above $20,000,000. It resets each January, with contiguous territories combined and a 4% ceiling. A local marketing spend of 6% of the calendar year's cumulative sales is required from the third month. The franchisor may collect and spend it on the franchisee's behalf. Grand opening marketing runs to $18,000. The percentage charges come to 13.5% of sales at most levels. They fall to 12.3% for the largest owner and rise to 18.5% where the minimum royalty applies, all of which are marked *.

Who does bookkeeping for a Mister Sparky franchise?

Three mechanics shape the close. The brand fund contribution is a year-to-date ladder that resets each January and combines revenue across contiguous territories. The rate changes part way through the year, at a point set by the combined sales of every entity. An owner with several territories needs one combined salesnue tracker alongside separate ones. In a system this concentrated most owners are multi-territory. Second, the royalty is drawn semi-monthly on revenue from the 1st to the 15th and the 16th to month end. So the fee cycle sits inside the month and the cash forecast models two draws. Third, the 6% local marketing requirement is measured on sales for the year to date. The brand may collect it and spend it on the owner's behalf, making it a documented obligation. Underneath it all, sales counts everything billed regardless of collection, including insurance and government program work. So the fee base is bookings while the bank is collections. 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 Mister Sparky

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 Mister Sparky 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 Mister Sparky Franchising. L.L.C.’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. Mister Sparky® is a registered trademark of its owner. How Averan reads a Franchise Disclosure Document.

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