Mister Sparky franchise unit economics

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 brand’s disclosure document 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 7.6% 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. The figures for the highest-selling and lowest-selling businesses are below.

Top performers

What separates the top Mister Sparky performers

Top performers

How far apart the locations are

Mister Sparky reports its locations in performance groups, from the highest-selling to the lowest. The group-by-group figures are in the tables on the Model and Finance tabs.

By territory

Revenue by territory quartile, 2025

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 $100 monthly technology fee to each level. The 6% of required local marketing spend is not in it.

A top-quarter territory bills $2,836,912 and a bottom-quarter one $163,663. That is seventeen times, on Mister Sparky 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. That is $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. It runs $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. That compares with 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. That is 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

Revenue by franchisee, 2025

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. That is 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. That is $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. The median is 37% of the average, 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. That is 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 lowest member billed $3,451,581.

Fees and what it costs to open

Brand and marketing fees at each sales level

We applied the published rates to the filed revenue. Paid to the brand is the royalty, the brand fund and one $100 monthly technology fee. The local marketing is spent by the owner and is not in it.

The fees paid to the brand come to 7.6% of sales at the average territory. That is $93,265 on an average territory and $285,066 on an average franchisee *. The owner also spends 6% on local marketing, $73,652 at the average territory, so 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 fees paid to the brand reach 13.2%, 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%. That is an $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. Other brands set the requirement in advance. A business growing 14.3% a year, as the same-store sales figure shows, spends more as it goes, which suits a Mister Sparky franchise that is still building up.

What it costs to open a territory

As the brand reported it, reordered here by size.

The franchise fee is 25% of the low column. That is $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. Mister Sparky's entry price is among the lightest 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.

Working capital (cash to run the business day to day) of $60,000 to $90,000 is the largest line. It is 1.8 to 2.7 times the Mister Sparky franchise fee. Electrical work is dispatched and billed on completion, so the reserve funds licensed technicians, vans and inventory before the call volume arrives.

The territory costs 16.5 cents for each person above 200,000. An average Mister Sparky territory bills $1,227,530, or $6.14 of revenue for every person in a 200,000-person territory *. That is 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

Same-store revenue growth and system composition

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

Same-store revenue rose 14.3% across 143 territories. That is $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. Nine franchisees with 12 territories stopped operating in the same year. The system added territories at four times the rate it lost them. The new group took 2.4 territories each on entry.

The Mister Sparky same-store group is 143 of 249 territories. That is 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 high.

Questions we get asked

Questions owners ask.