For a one-unit Amazing Athletes owner, that is the strongest defensible annual band from the current Item 19: the official median Net Income After Royalties for the bottom 25% and top 25% of reporting single-unit owners. The middle-50% median was $71,705, and the average across 39 reporting single-unit owners was $77,464.
How to read the range: the two endpoints are rounded from medians reported for the bottom-quarter and top-quarter single-unit groups. They are not a franchisor-stated minimum and maximum, not a forecast, and not after-tax take-home pay. The FDD measure excludes owner salaries from its administrative-salary line, so part of the result may compensate an active owner for work performed.
- Legal franchisor
- Amazing Athletes Franchise Systems, LLC.
- Disclosure document
- 2026 Amazing Athletes Franchise Disclosure Document, issued April 8, 2026.
- Item 19 status
- Direct historical financial performance representation for the January 1-December 31, 2025 period.
- Applicable format
- Home-based, non-brick-and-mortar Core Program businesses; this article leads with the 39-owner single-unit population and keeps multi-unit portfolios separate.
- Population caveat
- The Item 19 introduction references 83 franchisees and 133 of 169 franchised units, while the detailed owner tables show 62 reporting owners: 39 single-unit and 23 multi-unit owners. Table-specific denominators are used here; the count mismatch remains unresolved.
- Benchmark use
- No external benchmark determines the principal earnings figures. Official franchise pages and Federal Trade Commission guidance are used only for current public context and interpretation.
- Date checked
- July 18, 2026.
How much did reporting single-unit owners make?
Officially, the central single-unit result was roughly $72,000 to $77,000 for 2025. The 2026 FDD reports a $71,705 median for the middle 50% of one-unit owners and a $77,464 average across all 39 reporting one-unit owners. Both figures use the franchisor's term Net Income After Royalties; neither is personal salary or after-tax income.
The most useful uncertainty band is wider: the bottom-25% median was $19,398, while the top-25% median was $132,626. Those three groups partition the 39-owner single-unit cohort into 10 bottom-quartile owners, 19 middle-half owners, and 10 top-quartile owners. All reported units had operated for at least 12 months.
Per reporting single-unit owner for calendar 2025.
A central distribution measure, not a prediction for a new buyer.
Revenue before operating costs; it is not owner earnings.
The detailed one-unit profit-and-loss population in Item 19.
Net Income After Royalties as a rounded share of average revenue.
Median 2025 Net Income After Royalties for three non-overlapping owner groups.
Interpretation: the official central result sits near $72,000, but owner outcomes varied substantially across the reporting population.
Source: 2026 Amazing Athletes FDD, Item 19, Table 13, printed p. 78. Cohort medians are historical results, not probabilities or guaranteed thresholds.
The official single-unit average revenue was $186,386, more than twice the average Net Income After Royalties. Public franchise pages also emphasize gross revenue and gross profit, so a buyer should verify which metric is being quoted before comparing an earnings claim. The brand's official financial performance summary expressly states that its highlighted figures are per owner and may include owners with multiple units.
What does “Net Income After Royalties” actually measure?
It is an official unit-level operating measure, but it is not the same as owner take-home pay. For the 39 single-unit owners, the FDD starts with average revenue, deducts direct expenses and operating expenses, then deducts royalty, National Brand Fund, and technology charges. The resulting $77,464 is before any personal income tax calculation and does not show debt principal payments.
The table's administrative-salary and health-benefit labels explicitly exclude owners. The P&L also does not separately show owner salary or draw, interest, depreciation, capital expenditures, or income taxes. Therefore, the 42% ratio should not be treated as a passive-business margin or an after-tax household-income margin.
The components reconcile to the 2025 average revenue of $186,386.
Interpretation: under the FDD definition, about 42 cents of each average revenue dollar remained after the listed expenses and named franchise charges.
Source: 2026 Amazing Athletes FDD, Item 19, Table 3C, printed p. 67. “Franchise charges” reconciles revenue to the final total and is $1 above the sum of the three rounded fee lines shown in the FDD.
| Reporting population | Owners | Average revenue | Average Net Income After Royalties |
|---|---|---|---|
| Single-unit owners | 39 | $186,386 | $77,464 (42%) |
| Multi-unit owners, per-owner portfolio | 23 | $379,390 | $135,850 (36%) |
| All reporting owners, mixed unit counts | 62 | $257,984 | $99,124 (38%) |
Source: 2026 Amazing Athletes FDD, Item 19, Tables 3A-3C, printed pp. 65-67. Multi-unit figures are per owner across a portfolio, not per territory; they cannot be multiplied or compared to a single unit without adjusting for unit count, shared overhead, staffing, and maturity.
The 2026 FDD lists a royalty equal to the greater of 8% of Gross Revenues or the monthly minimum, a National Brand Fund contribution equal to the greater of 1% or $200 per month, current local advertising of 1%, and a $200 monthly first-business technology fee. Table 3C already includes marketing and the royalty, National Brand Fund, and technology deductions, so subtracting those percentages again would double-count them. Other owner-specific costs, including conference travel, optional programs, replacement equipment, software subscriptions, bookkeeping, and financing, still require verification. Source: 2026 Amazing Athletes FDD, Items 6 and 19, printed pp. 9-20 and 67.
How does owner involvement change the result?
An active owner may experience the disclosed figure as owner-operator benefit; a manager-run owner may retain materially less. Item 15 requires the franchisee or an approved Operating Principal to participate in day-to-day activities, while allowing a trained manager to perform those activities. This is therefore not evidence of a passive-income model.
The single-unit P&L includes coaching payroll and an administrative-salary line that specifically excludes owners. If the owner handles sales, scheduling, venue relationships, hiring, administration, or coaching without a market wage, the reported Net Income After Royalties contains both residual business profit and the economic value of the owner's labor.
No reliable dollar adjustment can be made from Item 19 alone because the FDD does not identify which reporting owners were owner-operated, which used managers, how many hours owners worked, or whether an owner's coaching labor was included in payroll. Subtracting a generic manager salary without resolving those facts would create false precision.
- Owner-operated interpretation: treat part of the $77,464 average as compensation for the owner's labor, not purely distributable business profit.
- Manager-run interpretation: verify whether manager compensation is already present in “Admin Salaries (exclude owners)” before subtracting any additional amount.
- Coaching interpretation: ask whether owners personally coached classes and whether any owner wage was included in the coaching-payroll line.
- Multi-unit interpretation: use portfolio-level staffing records; shared managers and administrative personnel may change the per-territory economics.
Source: 2026 Amazing Athletes FDD, Item 15, printed pp. 54-55; Item 19, Table 3C, printed p. 67. The official training and support page also describes owner training across operations, recruiting, sales, marketing, and software.
Why can actual annual earnings differ so much?
The largest uncertainty is how much owner labor and local execution sit inside the disclosed income figure. Revenue production, coaching payroll, venue economics, territory development, staffing mix, owner hours, and the maturity of local school and daycare relationships can materially move the result.
The 2025 Item 19 cohort includes only owners operating for the full calendar year under the same ownership. It excludes units that did not deliver Royalty Reporting Sheets and units that were terminated, not renewed, or reacquired. The two affiliate-owned outlets are reported separately and operate across unusually large populations, so their results are not used for the single-unit owner range.
Item 20 shows 169 franchised units at the end of 2025, up from 155 at the start of the year. Item 19's introduction references 133 units, while the detailed owner tables contain 62 owners. Because the document does not reconcile the introductory 83-franchisee count to those 62 owner-level records, a buyer should request the written substantiation and a population reconciliation before relying on the distribution.
The single-unit quartile groups also mix business tenure. In the top quarter, five of 10 owners had been in the system at least five years; in the bottom quarter, all 10 had been in the system less than five years. That pattern may indicate a maturity effect, but Item 19 does not isolate tenure from market quality, owner effort, pricing, staffing, or competition, so it cannot establish causation.
Sources: 2026 Amazing Athletes FDD, Item 19, printed pp. 62 and 78-79; Item 20, printed p. 82. The Federal Trade Commission's Consumer's Guide to Buying a Franchise explains that Item 19 claims should be evaluated with their basis, assumptions, and limitations.
What should a buyer verify before using this earnings range?
Verify the owner-labor treatment and reproduce the Item 19 result from actual franchisee records. The FDD says written substantiation is available on reasonable request, and the FTC advises prospects to test earnings claims against the disclosed methodology and franchisee interviews.
- Request the Item 19 written substantiation and ask the franchisor to reconcile the 83-franchisee introduction with the 62-owner detailed tables.
- Ask single-unit franchisees for 2025 revenue, coaching payroll, administrative payroll, owner hours, owner salary or draw, and distributions using the same definitions as Table 3C.
- Separate owner-operated benefit from manager-run residual profit by identifying every owner task and the fully loaded cost of replacing it.
- Confirm whether royalty minimums, National Brand Fund minimums, local advertising, technology, conference, software, bookkeeping, equipment replacement, and insurance are fully reflected in the local P&L.
- Keep financing principal, interest, capital expenditures, depreciation, and personal taxes outside the Item 19 comparison unless the records explicitly include them.
- Compare businesses with similar territory population, program mix, tenure, owner involvement, coach utilization, pricing, and venue economics.
- Review Item 20 contacts for current and former franchisees, including lower-performing and recently opened single-unit owners rather than only top performers.
What is the strongest defensible annual owner-earnings range?
For a reporting single-unit Amazing Athletes owner, the defensible 2025 evidence band is approximately $19,000 to $133,000 in Net Income After Royalties, with a central reference around $72,000 to $77,000. These are official FDD results, not an independent forecast, and the endpoints are quartile-group medians rather than minimum and maximum outcomes.
The most important earnings driver is the combination of revenue development and labor structure: average coaching and direct expenses consumed 36% of single-unit revenue, while uncompensated owner work can make the remaining 42% look more like owner-operator benefit than passive profit. The largest unresolved uncertainty is the amount and classification of owner and manager labor. A buyer should verify the Item 19 substantiation, the reporting-population reconciliation, and comparable franchisee P&Ls before translating the disclosed measure into a personal compensation expectation.