Plumbing Paramedics franchise unit economics
Plumbing Paramedics franchisees run residential plumbing businesses that sell service calls priced by the job from vans across one or more territories.
Plumbing Paramedics franchise at a glance
Item 19 of Plumbing Paramedics’ 2026 FDD, issued 10 April 2026, reports sales and jobs for three Plumbing Paramedics businesses that ran 15 territories in 2025 and completed 5,153 jobs, and a job was worth $693 to $885. A Plumbing Paramedics franchise costs $95,935 to $193,260 to open, including a $40,000 initial franchise fee.
- Plumbing Paramedics charges a royalty of 5% of sales, a 2% brand fund contribution and a $650 monthly technology fee.
- Plumbing Paramedics reported 15 franchised locations in its 2026 FDD.
- Work out Plumbing Paramedics's fees at your own sales with the minimum fee calculator.
These figures come from Plumbing Paramedics's 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document, as the brand reported them, and were read by Averan Advisors.
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Talk to Averan → Move your books and accounting to Averan →- A job is worth $693 to $885. That is $792.59 at the largest business and $885.04 at the single-territory one *, a 28% range in average ticket across three operators.
- Fixed obligations run $113,148 a year. That is $78,000 of required local marketing plus $35,148 of software and lead generation *, 16.5% of the smallest business’s revenue before a single percentage is charged *.
- The one-territory business out-earns eleven territories per territory by 7.2 times. $1,362,073 against $189,069 *, so territory count shows very little about what a business earns.
- The fee refund repays itself at $1,000,000 of sales. $40,000 back in exchange for four extra points of royalty *, and two of the three businesses passed that in a single year.
- The system went from 1 territory to 15 in two years, then stopped. Four opened in 2023 and eleven in 2024, against zero in 2025, and the brand has sold its own location to a franchisee.
How much does a Plumbing Paramedics franchise make?
The 2026 FDD for Plumbing Paramedics reports 2025 sales and jobs for 3 businesses running 15 territories. A Plumbing Paramedics job was worth $693 to $885, fixed obligations come to $113,148 a year, and covering the brand takes 233 to 326 jobs.
The job
Sales, jobs and tickets by business, 2025
| Business | Gross sales | Jobs | Territories | Revenue a job * | Jobs a territory * | Sales a territory * |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Business 1 | $2,079,757 | 2,624 | 11 | $792.59 | 239 | $189,069 |
| Business 2 | $1,362,073 | 1,539 | 1 | $885.04 | 1,539 | $1,362,073 |
| Business 3 | $686,140 | 990 | 3 | $693.07 | 330 | $228,713 |
| All three * | $4,127,970 | 5,153 | 15 | $801.08 | 344 | $275,198 |
The sales, jobs and territory counts are as the brand reported it for each business and every other figure divides one by another, marked *.
The busiest business runs 1,539 jobs from a single territory. The eleven-territory operator runs 239 a territory *, so how hard a territory is worked matters more than how many you hold.
Raising the average ticket by $50 is worth $131,200 at the largest business. * That is more than the entire fixed obligation, achieved without one extra van or one extra call.
The gap between the highest and lowest ticket is $192 a job. That is $885.04 against $693.07 *, which across 990 jobs is $190,000 of revenue *.
Gross sales here include financing and sales tax. Plumbing Paramedics allows no deduction for discounts, rebates or referral fees, so the royalty base is wider than the cash that reaches the business.
The largest business includes the location the brand ran until February 2024. Its eleven territories have traded longer than a new owner's would.
Top performers
What separates the top Plumbing Paramedics performers
Plumbing Paramedics lists its three reporting businesses instead of grouped averages. The highest-selling Plumbing Paramedics business billed $2,079,757 across 11 territories in 2025. The lowest-selling Plumbing Paramedics business billed $686,140 across 3 territories. Both run the same brand, on the same agreement, paying the same fees.
Decided before you open
- Site and trade area.The highest-selling Plumbing Paramedics business sells 3.0× the lowest-selling one. Catchment, daytime population and neighboring businesses affect where a location falls.
- Territory.This model sells from a territory, with no storefront. Population density sets how much driving sits between jobs.
- Opening cost range.Opening costs $95,935 to $193,260, a 2.0× range inside one brand.
- Fees and the minimum.A minimum fee applies, so lower-selling locations pay a higher effective rate. Work out the sales level where the percentage overtakes the minimum.
Live operating levers
- Jobs.Each job is won separately. Track how many quotes turn into work and the average job value.
Context you underwrite around
- Locations included.These figures cover 3 of 15 locations. Locations open less than the full year, brand-owned, or not meeting the reporting criteria are excluded.
- What the filing does not include.Item 19 publishes no profit or cost data for franchised locations, no median, no attainment figure. Ask the franchisor or current owners for cost and profit figures.
Discounts available
- Plumbing Paramedics takes 20% off the first franchise's fee for current U.S. Armed Forces members and honorably discharged veterans.
- Plumbing Paramedics takes 20% off the first franchise's fee for police officers, firefighters and paramedics/EMTs.
- Plumbing Paramedics takes 25% off the fee for the second and later franchises when three or more are bought in one transaction.
- Plumbing Paramedics may take up to 10% off the fee for franchises in hard-to-serve or underserved markets.
- Plumbing Paramedics waives the fee for plumbing businesses of at least 12 months with more than $250,000 in sales over the prior 12 months that convert to the brand.
- Plumbing Paramedics may refund the initial franchise fee after opening in exchange for a royalty that is 4 points higher for the 10-year initial term (Franchise Option Program).
From Item 5 of the Plumbing Paramedics 2026 FDD. The costs on this page use the full initial franchise fee for one unit, before any discount.
What is owed whatever you sell
Required ongoing charges
| Obligation | Rate | A year * |
|---|---|---|
| Local marketing | $6,500 a month minimum | $78,000 |
| Digital lead generation | 20% of advertising spend, $100 a month minimum | $15,600 |
| Technology | $650 a month | $7,800 |
| Field service software | $279 a month a license plus $300 for marketing features | $6,948 |
| Digital marketing services | $375 a month | $4,500 |
| Financial management software | $25 a month a license | $300 |
| Fixed total | n/a | $113,148 |
| Royalty | 5% of gross sales or $1,500 a month | n/a |
| Brand fund | 2% of gross sales | n/a |
The brand reported the rates and monthly charges. We multiplied them by twelve, taking lead generation at 20% of the $6,500 marketing minimum, marked *.
The royalty and brand fund are 5% and 2% of sales at all three businesses. Each sells more than the $360,000 a year below which the $1,500 monthly minimum royalty applies *. The $113,148 of fixed obligations is the same at the largest business and the smallest.
Covering the fixed obligations, royalty and brand fund takes 326, 236 and 233 jobs *. So the smallest business spends nearly a quarter of its year’s work on this.
Local marketing alone is 88 to 113 jobs a year *. That is a $78,000 obligation that sits outside the fee table entirely and may be reduced only at the brand’s discretion.
The digital lead generation charge grows with your own advertising. 20% of spend, so raising marketing to $10,000 a month raises the charge to $2,000 *. A fifth of the marketing budget is paid to the brand as a fee.
The $1,500 monthly minimum royalty applies below $360,000 of sales a year. * That is below all three businesses, and it can be combined across contiguous territories on request.
Five ways to pay less at the door
Franchise fee programs
| Program | Terms | What it costs instead * |
|---|---|---|
| Franchise option | Fee refunded; royalty rises from 5% to 9% for ten years | $40,000 back at $1,000,000 of sales |
| Conversion | Fee waived; royalty cut to 2% for 24 months | For operators already above $250,000 |
| Military and first responder | 20% off the first franchise | $32,000 |
| Multi-unit, three or more | 25% off the second and later | $30,000 each |
| Hard to serve markets | Up to 10% off | $36,000 |
Every program and rate is as the brand reported it and the third column applies them to the $40,000 fee, marked *.
The refund costs four points of royalty for a decade. At the three disclosed businesses that would run $27,446, $54,483 and $83,190 a year *, so the $40,000 comes back once and leaves many times over.
Break-even on that trade is $1,000,000 of cumulative gross sales. * Two of the three businesses here reached it inside the first year.
The conversion route is the only one that cuts the ongoing rate. That is 2% instead of 5% for two years, for a plumber already billing above $250,000, worth $7,500 a year at that threshold and far more above it *.
Fees actually charged in 2025 ranged from $0 to $40,000. So the list price is a starting point.
An existing owner earns $25,000 for a successful referral. That is 62.5% of the fee the new owner pays *, an unusually large share of it.
Territory and the system
Franchised outlets, 2023 to 2025
| Year | Start | Opened | Terminated | End | Company-owned end |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
| 2024 | 5 | 11 | 1 | 15 | 0 |
| 2025 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0 |
| Three years | n/a | 15 | 1 | n/a | n/a |
Every figure is as the brand reported it, with an outlet counted as a territory so the 15 at year end are held by three businesses.
Twelve of the 15 territories are in Indiana. Three are in North Carolina, and Wisconsin was emptied by the single termination, so this is a regional system.
Eleven territories opened in Indiana in 2024 alone. That is the eleven-territory business in the revenue table, one owner accounting for the whole year’s growth.
The brand sold its own location to a franchisee in 2024. It has operated none of its own since. Every business in the system is franchisee-run.
A territory holds at least 100,000 single-family homes. It is drawn by zip codes or census tracts with no minimum quota attached, and Plumbing Paramedics cannot change it unilaterally.
Opening costs $95,935 to $193,260, of which $40,000 is the fee. A wrapped van costs $5,500 to $11,500 for the first three months, equipment $5,000 to $25,000. Three months of working capital costs $20,000 to $50,000.
Questions we get asked
Questions an owner asks
How much does a Plumbing Paramedics franchise make?
Item 19 of Plumbing Paramedics’ 2026 FDD, issued 10 April 2026, reports sales and jobs for three Plumbing Paramedics businesses that ran 15 territories in 2025 and completed 5,153 jobs, and a job was worth $693 to $885. A Plumbing Paramedics franchise costs $95,935 to $193,260 to open, including a $40,000 initial franchise fee.
What do these businesses bill at Plumbing Paramedics?
In 2025, three businesses billed $2,079,757, $1,362,073 and $686,140, running 2,624, 1,539 and 990 jobs across 11, 1 and 3 territories respectively.
What is a job worth at Plumbing Paramedics?
On our reading, a Plumbing Paramedics job averages $792.59, $885.04 and $693.07 at the three businesses, or $801.08 across all 5,153 jobs. That average ticket is the single number this model turns on.
What fees does Plumbing Paramedics charge?
Plumbing Paramedics charges a 5% royalty or $1,500 a month, whichever is greater, plus a 2% brand fund contribution. Separately you must spend at least $6,500 a month on local marketing. Technology costs $650 a month, field service software $579, online marketing $375, accounting software $25. Digital lead generation costs 20% of your advertising spend.
What does that total at Plumbing Paramedics?
On our reading, that is $113,148 a year of fixed obligations before any percentage. That is $78,000 of required local marketing and $35,148 of technology, software and lead generation. On top sit the 5% royalty, or $1,500 a month if greater, and the 2% brand fund. Together that is between 233 and 326 jobs of work.
Should I take the fee refund at Plumbing Paramedics?
Only with the arithmetic in front of you. It returns the $40,000 in exchange for the royalty rising from 5% to 9% for the full ten-year term. On our reading that covers its costs at $1,000,000 of cumulative gross sales, which two of the three businesses here passed inside a single year.
Are there other ways to reduce the fee at Plumbing Paramedics?
Plumbing Paramedics offers four other fee reductions. Military and first responders pay 20% less. Buying three or more at once takes 25% off the second and later ones. Hard-to-serve markets get up to 10% off. An existing plumbing operator above $250,000 gets the fee waived plus a 2% royalty for 24 months. Fees actually charged in 2025 ranged from $0 to $40,000.
How is the Plumbing Paramedics territory defined?
A Plumbing Paramedics territory holds at least 100,000 single-family homes, set by zip code or census tract. It is expressly non-exclusive, though the brand will keep another Plumbing Paramedics site out of it while you comply. There are no quotas, and the brand is unable to change the boundaries unilaterally.
Which two numbers should run monthly at Plumbing Paramedics?
Track average revenue a job against $801, because $50 on the ticket is worth more than the entire fixed obligation at scale. Then track jobs completed, because 233 to 326 of them go to the brand before anything reaches you.
- The filing gives revenue for three businesses only. Plumbing Paramedics reports 2025 sales and jobs for each of them and no figures by territory or by year open.
- The filing gives no profit figure. The filing reports sales and not earnings, so what an owner keeps is not disclosed.
- The filing breaks out no cost lines. Wages, rent and cost of goods are not broken out, so margin cannot be rebuilt from the document.
- The filing gives no attainment figure. The filing does not say how many locations reached the average it publishes.
- The Plumbing Paramedics filing does not show how a new location builds up, so the first-year curve has to be assumed.
Questions worth putting to Plumbing Paramedics
These are questions the Plumbing Paramedics filing leaves open. An owner or a buyer can put them to Plumbing Paramedics directly.
- What do locations at the median spend on wages and rent as a share of sales? The filing reports sales only.
- Which factors does Plumbing Paramedics see in its highest-selling locations, such as trade area, years open and size?
- 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 Plumbing Paramedics locations closed, were sold, or changed hands last year, and why?
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Questions owners ask next
The figures above raise these, and each one is answered on its own page.
- At what level of sales does a minimum fee stop costing me more than the percentage?It works out the sales level where a minimum fee stops applying.
- How much cash do I fund before a new location covers its own costs?It builds a 13-week forecast for the months before break-even.
- My payroll percentage keeps climbing. Is that a payroll problem?It shows how to tell whether payroll is rising or revenue is falling.
- How much of Item 19 can I rely on?It explains what an Item 19 financial performance representation tells you and what it leaves out.
- What should I be looking at every week?It lists the handful of numbers that move before the P&L does.
Where these figures come from.
Every figure here comes from PHP Franchise, LLC’s 2026 FDD and is unaudited by us. We are unaffiliated with the brand. Calculations of our own are marked with an asterisk 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. Plumbing Paramedics® is a registered trademark of its owner. How Averan reads a Franchise Disclosure Document.
These figures come from the brand's disclosure. They are not a forecast, an offer to sell a franchise or advice. Source: PHP Franchise, LLC, 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document, issued 10 April 2026.