How Much Does a Bin There Dump That Franchise Owner Make?

Franchise owner earnings answer

About $10,800–$36,400 per truck

For a one-truck U.S. owner-operator, the strongest defensible estimate is approximately $10,800 to $36,400 in annual pre-tax owner-operator benefit, with a base scenario near $21,900. The 2026 Bin There USA, LLC Franchise Disclosure Document does not report owner profit. Its strongest evidence is 2025 revenue per truck, so the earnings figures below are independent scenarios rather than franchisor-reported results.

Mode C: FDD-anchored scenario Evidence confidence: Limited Unit: one production truck Revenue period: 2025

Data basis

Legal franchisor

Bin There USA, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.

Disclosure document

2026 U.S. FDD, issued April 29, 2026; Item 19, pages 35–37; Item 20, pages 38–45. No matching public FDD was verified on a franchise-controlled domain, so these citations are intentionally unlinked.

Item 19 evidence

Unaudited 2025 revenue and job activity for all U.S. franchised trucks operated during any part of the year; no franchisees were excluded.

External benchmarks

IRS nonfarm sole-proprietorship statistics and BLS waste-industry wage estimates.

Date checked

July 17, 2026.

Item 19 officially discloses revenue per truck, jobs per truck, and revenue per job; it does not disclose operating profit, EBITDA, net income, owner compensation, or cash flow. The applicable population is 363 trucks operated by U.S. franchised locations during any part of fiscal 2025. The figures are per truck, not per outlet, territory, franchisee, or owner.

Source: 2026 Bin There USA, LLC FDD, Item 19, pages 35–37. The all-location low was $151,050 and the high was $470,848 per truck. Those are observed extremes, not expected outcomes or probability bands. The disclosure is unaudited and includes trucks operated for only part of 2025.

How broad is the disclosed population?

The population is broad for truck-level revenue because the franchisor says all franchisees that operated during any part of 2025 were included and no franchisees were excluded. Item 20 separately reports 244 franchised outlets at December 31, 2025, with no company-owned outlets. The 363-truck Item 19 count cannot be divided mechanically by the year-end outlet count to create a reliable trucks-per-owner figure because the dates and populations differ.

Item 20 also reports 22 franchised openings, four outlets that ceased operations, and 17 transfers during 2025. Those system movements matter when interpreting the range: the Item 19 population includes partial-year trucks, while the article’s earnings scenario uses a full-year analytical revenue anchor.

The estimate applies a transparent all-in net-income margin band to a one-truck revenue band anchored to the official $281,624 median. It is a scenario for an actively involved owner, not a prediction and not an FDD financial performance representation.

• Revenue: Conservative, Base, and Upside use 80%, 100%, and 120% of the FDD’s $281,624 median, or $225,300, $281,600, and $337,900 after rounding. The 80%/120% spread is editorial analysis, not an FDD distribution.
• Margin: IRS Table 1 for tax year 2023 reports $336.314 million of net income less deficit on $4.320141 billion of receipts for sole proprietorships classified in Waste Management and Remediation Services. The resulting 7.7848% proxy is flexed by minus or plus three percentage points: 4.7848%, 7.7848%, and 10.7848%.
• Fee treatment: The margin is treated as all-in after normal operating costs and current FDD recurring fees. Royalties and advertising are not subtracted a second time. The IRS table does not isolate franchised businesses, so whether franchise fees are offset by lower independent marketing or administrative costs remains uncertain.
• Accounting treatment: The IRS Schedule C measure is after reported business deductions, including payroll, rent, interest, and depreciation. Financing principal payments and personal income taxes are not deducted. No depreciation or interest add-back is made.
• Rounding: Full-precision calculations are rounded to the nearest $100 only after the formula is applied.

Interpretation: The central case is approximately $21,900 before personal taxes and financing principal. These values include owner labor; they are not passive business profit.

Sources: 2026 Bin There USA, LLC FDD, Item 19, pages 35–37; IRS 2023 Nonfarm Sole Proprietorships Table 1 workbook. Calculations are independent.

Why use an owner-operator label instead of owner profit?

The IRS sole-proprietorship net-income measure does not deduct a salary for the proprietor, so it blends residual business economics with compensation for the owner’s labor. Bin There Dump That’s official owner-operator model description says the franchisee is active in day-to-day management, marketing, and sales while employees can handle service delivery. Calling the scenario pure profit would overstate what the figure represents.

At one-truck scale, replacing the active owner with a paid supervisor makes every modeled residual negative. This does not prove a manager-run franchise loses money; it shows that the FDD’s median revenue per truck and the external margin proxy do not support a full standalone supervisor wage on one truck.

Item 15 requires the owner to devote the majority of time and attention to the franchised business and requires direct supervision by the owner or a trained, acceptable manager. The model uses the BLS 2023 annual mean wage of $70,440 for First-Line Supervisors of Transportation and Material Moving Workers in NAICS 562000. Employer payroll taxes, benefits, recruiting costs, and management overhead are excluded, making the manager-run residual comparatively optimistic.

Owner-operator benefit Manager-run residual

Interpretation: Owner labor is the dominant modeled difference. A manager-run structure may require more truck revenue, shared management across several trucks, or a lower-cost staffing design; none is quantified by Item 19.

Sources: 2026 Bin There USA, LLC FDD, Item 15, page 30; BLS May 2023 NAICS 562000 occupational wage estimates. Calculations are independent and exclude employer payroll burden.

The fixed royalty and advertising contribution rise from $8,640 per production vehicle in Year 1 to a current $20,087 in Year 4 and later years. At the $281,624 base revenue anchor, the Year 4+ amount equals approximately 7.13% of revenue before any advertising-fund administration charge, convention cost, or future technology fee.

Source: 2026 Bin There USA, LLC FDD, Item 6, pages 7–11. The Year 4+ amounts are described as current and inflation-adjustable. The FDD assesses fees per production vehicle; this analysis treats that vehicle as compatible with the Item 19 revenue-per-truck unit because both refer to the hauling vehicle used in service delivery.

The FDD also allows a technology fee of up to $500 per month to be implemented in the future. It is not included in the current scenario. If charged at the maximum with no offsetting savings, it would reduce annual owner benefit by up to $6,000 per vehicle. The agreement also permits the franchisor, after notice, to change royalty and advertising calculations to as much as 8% and 2% of gross sales, respectively. Those caps are contractual possibilities, not current scenario inputs.

Are startup costs part of annual owner earnings?

No. Item 7’s $133,800–$313,000 initial-investment range is not an annual operating expense and is not subtracted from one year of revenue. Truck financing, bin purchases or leases, storage, and working capital can still affect cash available to the owner. Item 7 estimates a suitable truck lease at $2,200–$2,500 per month and notes that outdoor storage, if needed, can cost $350–$1,500 per month. Those costs are assumed to be within the all-in margin proxy rather than modeled separately.

The largest uncertainty is that the FDD reports truck revenue but not a complete unit-level profit-and-loss statement. The external IRS margin is official and industry-matched, but it pools independent sole proprietors across Waste Management and Remediation Services rather than Bin There Dump That franchisees.

Per-truck versus per-owner

An owner may operate one or several trucks. Item 19 does not report trucks per owner, shared overhead, territory-level profit, or multi-unit portfolio earnings.

Owner labor

The sole-proprietor net-income proxy includes the economic value of the proprietor’s work. It is not a market salary plus separate passive profit.

Partial-year inclusion

Item 19 includes every truck operated during any part of 2025. Its low and high figures can reflect different operating periods and should not be treated as scenario probabilities.

Expense mix

Disposal rates, fuel, driver wages, insurance, repairs, storage, and local advertising can differ materially by market and truck utilization.

Debt service

Interest is within the IRS net-income benchmark, but loan principal is not an expense in that measure. A heavily financed buyer can have materially less cash flow than operating earnings.

Taxes

The estimate is pre-tax. Federal, state, and local tax outcomes depend on entity choice, deductions, jurisdiction, and the owner’s circumstances.

A buyer should obtain written Item 19 substantiation and compare the scenario with actual franchisee profit-and-loss statements on a per-truck and per-owner basis. The FTC’s guide to buying a franchise explains why financial claims and the FDD deserve careful review, while the brand’s official ownership process directs prospects to review the FDD and contact existing operators.

• Ask for the written substantiation supporting 2025 revenue per truck, including treatment of partial-year trucks and how average revenue per job was calculated.
• Ask current franchisees for revenue, disposal cost, fuel, payroll, insurance, repairs, storage, local marketing, royalty, and advertising expense by truck.
• Separate owner salary or labor value, business profit, distributions, retained cash, depreciation, interest, and debt principal.
• Compare one-truck and multi-truck operations without simply multiplying one-truck earnings; identify shared dispatch, management, storage, and maintenance overhead.
• Confirm whether the prospective territory requires extra trucks or at least 12 bins, and obtain local quotes for disposal, vehicle insurance, storage, labor, and financing.
• Verify whether a technology fee, advertising administration fee, convention fee, or revised percentage-based royalty structure applies when the agreement is signed.
• Interview operators from the 0–2 year, 2–5 year, and 5+ year cohorts, plus transferred or former franchisees listed in Item 20.

The strongest defensible one-truck estimate is approximately $10,800–$36,400 in annual pre-tax owner-operator benefit, with a base scenario near $21,900. It is scenario-based, not official owner earnings. The most important driver is revenue per truck combined with the all-in expense margin; the most consequential role decision is whether the owner supplies management and sales labor or pays someone else.

The largest unresolved uncertainty is the absence of same-brand profit data by truck, outlet, territory, and owner. Before making a decision, a buyer should reconcile Item 19 substantiation with franchisee interviews and actual P&Ls, then test local disposal, labor, truck, insurance, storage, recurring-fee, and financing assumptions. Personal income taxes should be modeled separately with a qualified tax adviser.