PrideStaff franchise unit economics
PrideStaff franchisees run staffing offices that recruit and place administrative, general office, light industrial and accounting staff on temporary, temp-to-hire and direct-hire terms.
PrideStaff in the news
The PrideStaff headline above is the publisher's own and links to the publisher. Averan Advisors checked this PrideStaff link on 11 October 2026. Franchise news lists news on 95 brands, including PrideStaff. PrideStaff is in the Staffing franchise guide.
PrideStaff franchise at a glance
PrideStaff’s Item 19 reports 2025 gross billings, gross profit, owner share and hourly figures for 53 franchised offices trading two years or more, with the number of offices at or above each average, and the same measures for 4 company-owned offices.
PrideStaff franchisees averaged $3,195,828 of sales in 2025, with a median of $2,674,511, according to Item 19 of PrideStaff’s 2026 FDD, issued 15 April 2026. The 53 in that group are 82%* of PrideStaff’s 65 locations. Fees paid to PrideStaff come to about 7.83%* of sales. A PrideStaff franchise costs $171,950 to $244,600 to open.
- A PrideStaff franchise costs $171,950 to $244,600 to open, including a $40,000 initial franchise fee, according to the brand's 2026 FDD.
- PrideStaff charges the greater of 35% of gross profit or 6% of net billings on temporary work, and a 0.35% brand fund contribution.
- PrideStaff reported 65 franchised locations in its 2026 FDD.
- 34% of reporting PrideStaff locations reached the average.
- At the average PrideStaff office, gross profit was 22.51% of billings.
- Work out PrideStaff's fees at your own sales with the minimum fee calculator.
- Across the PrideStaff system, the hourly bill rate spans 1.92 times from lowest to highest and the gross profit an hour spans 4.98 times.
These figures come from PrideStaff'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 →- Gross profit an hour varies five times. The hourly rate charged varies twice. $3.54 to $17.62 against $21.24 to $40.75 *, so the pay rate you set matters more here than the rate you charge.
- The owner keeps $4.31 of the $7.61 of gross profit each hour produces. 65% less the support and advertising charges *, which arrives at exactly the filed $4.31, so the technology and fund charges are already inside it.
- Below about 17% of gross profit, the brand's 6% minimum costs more than its share. There 35% of gross profit falls below 6% of billings *, and the lowest PrideStaff gross profit rate in the system is 14.62%.
- The brand’s effective take ran 7.826% of billings, from 5.11% to 11.41%. The brand reported this. 21 of 53 offices paid above that average.
- $14,637 of fixed technology charges is 3.0% of the average owner’s share. That is 13.7% of the lowest-selling office’s share *, and it is the only part of the load that ignores how the year went.
How much does a PrideStaff franchise make?
The average PrideStaff unit reported $3,195,828 of revenue in the 2026 FDD, and the median reported $2,674,511. Item 19 of the PrideStaff FDD publishes billings, gross profit, gross profit rate and the owner’s share for 53 franchised offices trading two years or more, and what an owner keeps depends on the costs set out below. Fees come off the top first, at about 7.8% 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.
The hour, priced three ways
Offices open two years or more, 2025
| Measure | Average | Median | High | Low | Offices at or above average |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross billings | $3,195,828 | $2,674,511 | $10,642,484 | $573,582 | 18 (34%) |
| gross profit | $719,416 | $611,549 | $2,372,005 | $162,756 | 17 (32%) |
| Owner share | $481,350 | $404,930 | n/a | $106,875 | 17 (32%) |
| hourly rate | $27.76 | $28.53 | $40.75 | $21.24 | 31 (58%) |
| gross profit rate | 22.51% | 22.79% | 41.63% | 14.62% | 28 (53%) |
| gross profit an hour | $7.61 | $6.52 | $17.62 | $3.54 | 22 (42%) |
| Owner share an hour | $4.31 | $4.30 | $12.79 | $2.30 | 26 (49%) |
Every figure is as the brand reported it for offices operated continuously by the same franchisee for at least two years. The high owner share is printed with a digit missing.
The average office bills about 115,000 hours a year. That is $3,195,828 at $27.76 *, roughly 55 people on assignment full time, against about 45 at the median office.
Fifty cents more of gross profit an hour is worth $37,415 to the owner. Across those hours at the 65% share *, which is 7.8% of what the average owner takes, from a change most clients would likely not notice.
The average owner share an hour and the median are a cent apart. $4.31 and $4.30, while the average gross profit an hour sits $1.09 above its median. So the brand’s share absorbs most of the skew at the top.
58% of offices charge above the average hourly rate. Only 42% earn above the average gross profit an hour *. At PrideStaff, the rate charged and the pay rate set are separate decisions.
The highest PrideStaff owner share an hour was $12.79 and the lowest $2.30. A 5.56-fold range *, on bill rates that differ by less than twice.
Top performers
What separates the top PrideStaff performers
PrideStaff publishes a range for its offices instead of grouped averages. The highest-selling of the 53 PrideStaff franchised offices trading two years or more billed $10,642,484 in 2025. The lowest-selling PrideStaff office in that group billed $573,582. Both run the same brand, on the same agreement, paying the same fees. The middle location sold $2,674,511. The average was $3,195,828. More than half the system is below the number the brand quotes.
Decided before you open
- Site and trade area.The highest-selling PrideStaff office sells 18.6× 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 $171,950 to $244,600, a 1.4× range inside one brand.
- Fees and the minimum.Fees run about 7.8% of sales. A minimum fee also applies, so lower-selling locations pay a higher effective rate. Work out the sales level where the percentage overtakes the minimum.
Live operating levers
- Pay rates.Wages and burden take 72.6% of the hourly rate at the average PrideStaff office. The lever is the spread between the rate charged and the rate paid.
- Billed hours.You pay for every hour worked and bill only the hours a client accepts. Track hours worked against hours billed, and the rate charged against the rate paid.
Context you underwrite around
- Locations included.These figures cover 53 of 65 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 of the PrideStaff FDD publishes billings, gross profit, gross profit rate and the owner’s share for 53 franchised offices trading two years or more. Ask the franchisor or current owners for any cost line the filing leaves out.
Discounts available
- PrideStaff charges qualified military veterans who own at least 51% and are active in the business $20,000 instead of $40,000.
From Item 5 of the PrideStaff 2026 FDD. The costs on this page use the full initial franchise fee for one unit, before any discount.
The split and its minimum
How the average hour divides
| Line | An hour | Share of the hourly rate * | At average annual hours * |
|---|---|---|---|
| hourly rate | $27.76 | 100% | $3,195,828 |
| Wages and burden | $20.15 | 72.6% | $2,476,412 |
| gross profit | $7.61 | 27.4% | $719,416 |
| Brand keeps | $3.30 | 11.9% | $238,066 |
| Owner share | $4.31 | 15.5% | $481,350 |
The brand reported the hourly rate, the gross profit and the owner's share. We worked out the rest from the differences, applied to the average office's implied hours, marked *.
Taking 65% of $7.61 gives $4.95, and the filed share is $4.31. The 64-cent difference is the 1.9% support fee and 0.35% advertising cap on the hourly rate *, so the filed hourly share is already net of them.
The fees take the greater of 35% of gross profit or 6% of billings. The two are equal at 17.14% gross profit rate *, below which the minimum applies, and the lowest-selling office in this system runs 14.62%.
The effective take averaged 7.826% of billings and reached 11.41%. The low was 5.11%, and 21 of 53 offices were above the average. At the high end the 6% minimum costs more than the share of gross profit.
Direct hire placements pay the owner 79% against 65%. So the average owner share works out at 66.91% of gross profit against 65% *, so the permanent desk improves the blend.
The brand bills clients and pays the associates. PrideStaff remits to the owner monthly, on an accrual basis for temporary work and on cash received for direct hire. That is why three months of additional funds covers the office.
Franchised against company-owned
Franchised and company-owned offices, 2025
| Measure | Franchised (53) | Company-owned (4) | All 57 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average gross billings | $3,195,828 | $5,796,043 | $3,286,929 |
| Median gross billings | $2,674,511 | $2,883,275 | $2,591,465 |
| Average gross profit | $719,416 | $1,152,486 | $749,807 |
| Average gross profit rate | 22.51% | 19.76% | 22.18% |
| Average hourly rate | $27.76 | $28.43 | $27.84 |
| gross profit an hour | $7.61 | $5.31 | n/a |
Every figure is as the brand reported it, and the all-office low billings of $518,050 sits below both group lows, which we flag instead of adjust.
Brand-owned offices bill 1.81 times an owner-run one, and keep a smaller share of it. $5,796,043 against $3,195,828, at 19.76% against 22.51% *, and they earn $2.30 less of margin an hour.
Their median billings are within $209,000 of the franchised median. $2,883,275 against $2,674,511, so the gap in averages comes from one very large company office at $16,456,006.
The offices charging more an hour keep a smaller share of it. $28.43 an hour against $27.76, while the margin falls nearly three points. That pattern comes from larger accounts won on price against a higher pay rate.
The four company offices show the effect of higher volume. Their gross profit rate is 19.76% against 22.51% at franchised PrideStaff offices, and gross profit is what the owner is paid on.
One figure in the all-office table is below both group lows. That is $518,050 of billings against group lows of $573,582 and $961,618, worth knowing before quoting the combined table.
Territory, build and the system
Territory and franchised offices, 2023 to 2025
| Year | Start | Opened | Terminated | Reacquired | Ceased, other | End |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 80 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 74 |
| 2024 | 74 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 68 |
| 2025 | 68 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 65 |
Every column is as the brand reported it and each year's arithmetic returns the filed closing count exactly.
A territory holds between 50,000 and 200,000 employees. Measured with mapping software, so the average office’s billings run $63.92 a head in a small territory and $15.98 in a large one *.
The territory is exclusive. It is stated plainly, with the brand agreeing to keep other offices out and to stop them soliciting inside it, subject to national account clients. The brand reserves those clients and currently offers them back to franchisees.
The system went from 80 franchised offices to 65. That is an 18.8% decline, with 22 departures across three years against 7 openings, and company-owned offices rising from 3 to 6.
An office costs $171,950 to $244,600 to open. That is 0.32 to 0.51 times what the average PrideStaff owner earns in a year *, with $90,000 to $110,000 of that covering three months. Buying an existing office instead runs $105,600 to $164,100.
A veteran pays $20,000 against $40,000 for the franchise. A resale costs $5,000 against $10,000, the largest veteran discount among the staffing brands in this library.
Questions we get asked
Questions an owner asks
How much does a PrideStaff franchise make?
PrideStaff franchisees averaged $3,195,828 of sales in 2025, with a median of $2,674,511, according to Item 19 of PrideStaff’s 2026 FDD, issued 15 April 2026. The 53 in that group are 82%* of PrideStaff’s 65 locations. Fees paid to PrideStaff come to about 7.83%* of sales. A PrideStaff franchise costs $171,950 to $244,600 to open.
What does a PrideStaff office bill?
Across 53 franchised offices trading two years or more, 2025 billings averaged $3,195,828 with a median of $2,674,511. Gross profit averaged $719,416 and the owner's share $481,350, with a median of $404,930. The highest-selling office billed $10,642,484 and the lowest-selling $573,582.
What does an hour produce at PrideStaff?
A PrideStaff billed hour brings $27.76 of billing, $7.61 of gross profit and $4.31 to the owner at the average office. The median figures are $28.53, $6.52 and $4.30. The hourly rate charged runs from $21.24 to $40.75. Gross profit an hour runs from $3.54 to $17.62.
What fees does PrideStaff charge?
The PrideStaff fee is the greater of 35% of gross profit or 6% of net billings on temporary work, and 21% of direct hire and conversion fees. PrideStaff retains it before the owner is paid. The filed effective figure for 2025 was 7.826% of billings on average, with a median of 7.67%, a low of 5.11% and a high of 11.41%.
When does the 6% minimum bite at PrideStaff?
On our reading, the minimum applies below about 17.14% of gross profit. That is where 35% of gross profit equals 6% of what is invoiced. The lowest office in this system keeps 14.62% as gross profit. The minimum applies at the bottom of the system, so the brand's share reaches 11.41% there.
Why is the filed hourly share $4.31 against $4.95 at PrideStaff?
The gap exists because 65% of $7.61 is $4.95, and the 1.9% franchise support fee plus the 0.35% advertising cap on a $27.76 hourly rate come to about 64 cents. On our reading the filed hourly share is already net of both, which makes it directly comparable to your own.
What technology do you pay for at PrideStaff?
On our reading, PrideStaff technology costs about $14,637 a year, covering staffing software at $136.09 a user with three users minimum, skills testing at $700 a year, electronic signatures at $41 a month, email marketing at $200, brand management at $377.16 and customer loyalty surveys at $135. That is 3.0% of the average owner's share and 13.7% of the lowest-selling office's.
What territory do you get at PrideStaff?
A PrideStaff franchisee gets an exclusive territory holding between 50,000 and 200,000 employees, mutually agreed and mapped before signing. The brand agrees to keep other offices out of it and to stop them soliciting inside it. It reserves digital marketing and national account clients, currently offering those back to franchisees on a revocable basis, and soliciting outside the territory needs consent.
Which two numbers should run monthly at PrideStaff?
Track gross profit an hour against $7.61, because it is what the owner is paid on and it varies five times across this system. Then track gross profit rate against 22.51%, because dropping under about 17% hands the brand a minimum instead of a share.
Questions worth putting to PrideStaff
These are questions the PrideStaff filing leaves open. An owner or a buyer can put them to PrideStaff directly.
- How would wages and rent at a new PrideStaff location compare with the figures in the filing? Item 19 of the PrideStaff FDD publishes billings, gross profit, gross profit rate and the owner’s share for 53 franchised offices trading two years or more.
- Which factors does PrideStaff 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 PrideStaff 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.
- Do I need a bookkeeper, a controller, or a CFO?It explains what each role owns and when the next hire pays for itself.
- Revenue was the highest it has been. Why did profit not move?It traces where the extra revenue went, line by line.
Where these figures come from.
Every figure here comes from PrideStaff, 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. PrideStaff® 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: PrideStaff, Inc., 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document, issued 15 April 2026.