What ten franchise locations look like in the numbers
Updated 16 October 2026
An owner with ten locations runs ten sets of sales, wages, rent and brand charges each month. This page puts numbers on that from 431 brands' 2026 Franchise Disclosure Documents (FDDs). The FDD is the document a franchisor gives a buyer before a sale. Each section works one brand's figures through at ten locations.
Sales at ten locations
The median brand in Averan's library reports $748,885 in average sales per location. Ten locations at that figure sell $7,488,850 a year. The median location sells 85.5% of the average at the median brand, so ten median locations sell about $6.4 million.
At the library median fee load of 9.00%, ten locations at $748,885 each pay $673,996 a year in brand fees. That is $56,166 a month, spread across ten sets of royalty, brand fund and technology charges.
Mathnasium reports average sales of $384,874 per center. Ten Mathnasium centers at that average sell $3,848,740 a year. Mathnasium reports a 30.4% operating profit margin, profit before owner and management pay, which is $1,170,017 across the ten centers.
Brand charges at ten locations
Every location produces its own royalty, brand fund and technology charges. At ten locations, an owner reconciles 120 monthly fee statements a year against the FDD rates.
Club Pilates fees total 12% of sales plus a $550 monthly technology fee. Ten Club Pilates studios at the $987,810 average pay $1,185,372 a year in percentage fees and $66,000 in technology fees. Each studio's charges are checked against its own statement every month.
How many units owners hold
| Brand | Owners or ownership groups | Units | Units per owner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Merry Maids | 250 ownership groups | 644 businesses | 2.6 |
| Benjamin Franklin Plumbing | 86 franchisees | 373 territories | 4.3 |
| PremierGarage, multi-territory owners | 24 franchisees | 92 territories | 3.8 |
| Mister Sparky | 60 franchisees | 185 territories | 3.1 |
None of these four brands averages ten units per owner. An owner with ten units holds more than twice the average of any of them, so the brand's own reports describe smaller operations.
Merry Maids reports 644 businesses held by 250 ownership groups, 2.6 each. Its qualified businesses averaged $439,243 in sales, and single-business owners averaged $626,096. The single-business average is $186,853 higher, so a Merry Maids owner adding businesses compares each one with the $439,243 figure.
Minimum fees at ten territories
Some brands charge a dollar minimum on each territory, whatever it sells. At one territory the minimum is one fixed charge. At ten territories it is ten, and every territory below the sales level where the percentage takes over pays the minimum.
PremierGarage charges 5% royalty or $12,000 a year for each territory, plus a $3,000 brand fund minimum for each territory. That is $15,000 a year for each territory below the minimum's sales level. Across ten territories, the minimums come to $150,000 a year. The median multi-territory PremierGarage owner already pays the minimum on all 3.8 territories held.
Reports at ten locations
- A profit and loss statement for each location, in the same format.
- A combined profit and loss statement for the whole group.
- A cash balance for each legal entity, if locations sit in separate companies.
- A record of money moved between locations or entities.
- A 13-week cash forecast for the group.
At the library medians, wages take 31.73% of sales and rent 10.6%. Across ten locations selling $7,488,850, that is $2,376,212 of wages and $790,074 of rent a year. A combined statement shows the total. The location statements show which of the ten carries more than its share.
The lender at ten locations
A lender financing location eleven reads the group's combined statements, the loan payments already owed, and the new location's projection. The debt service coverage ratio, cash profit divided by loan payments, is tested across the whole group.
A Camp Bow Wow location at the brand's averages earns $201,624 a year. A 70% loan on the $954,606 low end of Item 7, over 10 years at an assumed 10% rate, costs $105,968 a year. Ten such loans cost $1,059,680 a year against $2,016,240 of profit across ten locations, a group ratio of 1.9.
What this means for an owner
Ten locations at the library median sell about $7.5 million and produce 120 fee statements a year. Most owners in the FDDs hold between 2.6 and 4.3 units, so a ten-unit owner runs above the size each brand reports on. The reports change at that size: one statement per location, one combined statement, cash by entity, and a group forecast. A lender tests the next loan against the whole group's profit and payments.
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The Franchise Numbers Check is a free tool on this site. It takes one location's figures and sets them against the brand data Averan has published.
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