For one U.S. iFixandRepair unit, the defensible analytical range is approximately $46,500 to $118,600 per year, with a base scenario of about $78,500. A manager-run version falls to roughly $0 to $71,900 before employer payroll burden because the model deducts a $46,730 retail-supervisor wage. These are pre-tax scenarios, not figures reported by the franchisor.
This range is an independent analytical scenario, not an Item 19 financial performance representation by iFixandRepair Franchise LLC. It combines identified facts from the 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document with an Internal Revenue Service industry proxy, a Bureau of Labor Statistics wage benchmark, and clearly labeled modeling assumptions. Actual results can differ materially by location, store or kiosk format, sales, labor, occupancy, financing, owner involvement, and execution.
- Legal franchisor
- iFixandRepair Franchise LLC, a Florida limited liability company.
- Current disclosure
- 2025 iFixandRepair Franchise Disclosure Document, issued August 29, 2025; Item 19 makes no financial performance representation.
- Applicable formats
- Single retail merchandising store and stand-alone kiosk. The available evidence does not support separate earnings estimates by format.
- Benchmark population
- IRS Tax Year 2022 nonfarm sole proprietorships classified in Other Services with $500,000 to under $1,000,000 of receipts; BLS May 2023 retail-sales supervisor wages.
- Evidence mode
- Mode D — Structural FDD-Anchored Estimate. Confidence is LIMITED because same-brand sales and profit are undisclosed.
- Date checked
- July 15, 2026.
How much may an iFixandRepair owner earn in a year?
The estimated annual result is $46,500 to $118,600 for an owner-operator and approximately negative $200 to $71,900 for a manager-run unit. Those figures apply to one modeled U.S. unit and are scenario results, not an average, median, or forecast for the iFixandRepair system.
The central revenue anchor is $678,436, calculated from the IRS cohort’s aggregate receipts divided by its number of returns. Because the 2025 iFixandRepair FDD supplies no sales distribution, the conservative and upside revenue cases use an explicit analytical spread of 80% and 120% of that central figure. The cash-flow proxy margin uses the IRS cohort’s net income less deficit plus depreciation, divided by receipts; the conservative and upside margins are three percentage points below and above the 11.6% central proxy.
| Scenario | Annual revenue assumption | Cash-flow proxy margin | Owner-operator benefit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | $542,749 | 8.6% | $46,496 |
| Base | $678,436 | 11.6% | $78,473 |
| Upside | $814,123 | 14.6% | $118,591 |
Rounding occurs after calculation. The 80%/100%/120% revenue spread and ±3 percentage-point margin spread are editorial sensitivity assumptions, not probabilities or FDD-reported performance bands.
Annual pre-tax benefit before personal taxes, financing principal, and a capital-expenditure reserve.
Interpretation: Revenue and margin move together in this sensitivity design, so the chart shows a plausible analytical span rather than a statistical confidence interval.
Source: Derived from IRS, Sole Proprietorship Returns, Tax Year 2022, Table 3; scenario spreads are editorial assumptions. The iFixandRepair FDD does not report revenue or earnings.
IRS cohort receipts divided by 21,896 sole-proprietorship returns.
Net income less deficit plus depreciation, divided by receipts.
BLS May 2023 national median for first-line retail-sales supervisors.
Royalty, software license, and communication-system fees.
System count only; Item 20 does not provide an earnings sample.
What does the strongest available evidence actually measure?
The strongest same-brand evidence is official but structural: the 2025 iFixandRepair FDD identifies the business formats, owner-participation rule, recurring charges, and outlet count, yet Item 19 reports no sales, profit, EBITDA, cash flow, owner compensation, or other financial performance measure. Therefore, no official iFixandRepair owner-income figure exists in the current disclosure.
FDD source: 2025 iFixandRepair Franchise Disclosure Document, Item 19, pp. 37–38. The system counts cited in this article are from Item 20, pp. 38–47.
The outside financial anchor is the IRS Other Services cohort for sole proprietorships with $500,000 to under $1,000,000 of receipts. It measures aggregate tax-return receipts, deductions, net income less deficit, and depreciation across a broad U.S. industry population. It does not isolate electronics repair franchises, iFixandRepair stores, kiosks, franchised businesses, mature outlets, or manager-run units.
| IRS cohort input | Reported amount | Statistic type | Use in this analysis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of returns | 21,896 | Population estimate | Denominator for average receipts per return |
| Business receipts | $14.855 billion | Aggregate | Revenue numerator |
| Net income less deficit | $1.078 billion | Aggregate | Tax-return operating result |
| Depreciation | $640.058 million | Aggregate deduction | Added back for a pre-capex cash-flow proxy |
The $678,436 figure is a benchmark revenue anchor, not owner income. The scenario converts revenue to an estimated owner-operator benefit only after applying the separately derived 11.6% cash-flow proxy. Because sole proprietors generally do not deduct their own salary as employee wages, part of the resulting benefit can compensate the owner for labor rather than represent passive business profit.
How should “owner earnings” be read here?
The analysis uses two distinct measures. Neither is after-tax take-home pay, and neither is an official iFixandRepair result.
- Estimated owner-operator benefit
- Cash-flow proxy after the broad operating deductions reflected in the IRS benchmark, including the value available to compensate an actively working owner. It is before personal income taxes, financing principal, and a specific capital-expenditure reserve.
- Estimated manager-run residual
- Owner-operator benefit minus the $46,730 BLS median supervisor wage. It remains before employer payroll taxes, benefits, personal taxes, financing principal, and a capital-expenditure reserve.
- Interest and depreciation
- The IRS net-income figure may include interest expense reported by cohort businesses. Depreciation is added back, so the model does not deduct a matching cash reserve for equipment replacement or the FDD’s periodic remodeling requirement.
How does owner involvement change the result?
Active owner operation materially changes the economic result because the owner can perform work that would otherwise require paid management. Under the scenario, replacing an owner-operator with a manager reduces annual residual cash by $46,730 before payroll burden and benefits.
This distinction matches the operating structure in Item 15. A single-store franchisee must personally participate during the first six months after opening. After that period, iFixandRepair Franchise LLC may, at its discretion, approve a trained manager to operate the business day to day. Manager-run operation is therefore not an automatic passive-ownership entitlement.
FDD source: 2025 iFixandRepair Franchise Disclosure Document, Item 15, pp. 32–33.
The difference in each row is the $46,730 BLS median retail-supervisor wage; employer payroll burden and benefits are not included.
Interpretation: The conservative manager-run case is approximately break-even before payroll burden, benefits, debt principal, taxes, and capital expenditures; adding those costs would make it negative.
Source: Scenario benefits above; manager labor uses the BLS May 2023 First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers wage profile. BLS excludes self-employed workers, and the wage is not a complete employer-cost figure.
The owner-operator range should not be described as passive profit. In the base case, approximately $46,730 of the $78,473 benefit can be viewed as replacement value for management labor, leaving about $31,743 as modeled residual before payroll burden, personal taxes, debt principal, and capital spending.
Where do iFixandRepair fees enter the earnings model?
The 2025 FDD identifies $13,800 to $27,600 of known fixed annual recurring charges before local advertising. That range combines the monthly royalty, software license, and communication-system charges. The scenario does not subtract those fees again because the IRS cash-flow proxy is already based on an all-in deductions envelope; double-charging the fees would understate the result.
| Recurring obligation | FDD amount | Annualized amount | Scenario treatment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Continuing Royalty Fee | $850–$2,000 monthly | $10,200–$24,000 | Assumed within the benchmark deduction envelope |
| Software license fee | $150 monthly | $1,800 | Assumed within the benchmark deduction envelope |
| Communication system | Currently $150 monthly | $1,800 | Assumed within the benchmark deduction envelope |
| Local advertising | Recommended 1%–3% of Gross Revenue | Variable | Assumed within broad advertising deductions; exact fit is unknown |
| National or regional fund | 1% if national fund instituted; regional up to 2% | Contingent | Not separately modeled; national fee was not charged at issuance |
At the $678,436 base revenue proxy, the known fixed charges equal approximately 2.0% to 4.1% of revenue, with a midpoint of about 3.1%. Whether the IRS cohort’s typical royalty, technology, communication, and advertising burden is genuinely comparable is a major unresolved uncertainty. An iFixandRepair unit with above-proxy franchise fees, occupancy, payroll, parts costs, or local advertising would produce less cash than the model.
FDD source: 2025 iFixandRepair Franchise Disclosure Document, Item 6, pp. 5–9. Item 7’s $78,200–$147,450 retail-store investment and $68,200–$124,950 kiosk investment are startup context and are not deducted as one-year operating expenses.
What moves the earnings range most?
Sales volume and owner involvement are the largest modeled drivers, but gross margin on repair labor and accessory sales, technician payroll, occupancy, and the store-versus-kiosk mix could move the result just as much. The FDD does not disclose enough financial data to quantify those variables for the iFixandRepair population.
- Revenue distribution is unknown. The 80%/100%/120% spread is an analytical sensitivity around an IRS average, not a same-brand quartile distribution.
- Format economics are unknown. Retail merchandising stores and stand-alone kiosks differ in space and accessory capacity, but Item 19 does not provide separate sales or cost results.
- Unit maturity is unknown. Item 20 reports 201 openings during fiscal 2025 and 427 franchised outlets at year-end, but does not identify mature-unit earnings or ramp-up performance.
- Labor mix is unknown. The BLS wagerepresents a national occupational median, not a local fully loaded manager cost and not a technician staffing plan.
- Capital needs are not reserved. Adding back depreciation increases the cash-flow proxy, while the FDD anticipates approximately $20,000–$30,000 of store upgrades every six to eight years.
- Debt and taxes remain owner-specific. Debt principal and personal income taxes are excluded. Interest may already be embedded in the IRS net-income figure and cannot be isolated from the published cohort totals.
Item 20’s 427-outlet count is not an earnings sample. With no Item 19 reporting cohort, there is no disclosed number of mature outlets, reporting outlets, owner-operated units, manager-run units, stores, or kiosks behind a same-brand financial result. That is the primary reason for the LIMITED confidence label.
What should a buyer verify before relying on this range?
A buyer should treat the scenario as a diligence framework, not a substitute for outlet-level records. The most useful next evidence would be written substantiation for any earnings claim and consistent financial statements from comparable operating franchisees.
- Confirm that the current FDD still contains no amended Item 19 financial performance representation and ask for the written basis of any sales or income statement made during the sales process.
- Interview current franchisees operating the same format, market type, and ownership model; ask separately for Gross Revenue, parts and accessory cost, technician payroll, occupancy, advertising, recurring franchise charges, operating profit, and owner hours.
- Request monthly profit-and-loss statements for at least 24 months from any existing outlet under consideration, including closed or low-volume periods rather than selected months.
- Verify the actual monthly Royalty Fee assigned to the proposed location, current software and communication charges, local advertising plan, and whether a regional or national fund applies.
- Price a trained manager using local wages, payroll taxes, benefits, recruiting cost, and coverage requirements—not only the national BLS median used in this sensitivity analysis.
- Separate business cash flow from owner labor compensation, debt service, personal taxes, equipment replacement, and the periodic remodeling obligation.
What is the most defensible earnings takeaway?
The strongest defensible range is approximately $46,500 to $118,600 of annual owner-operator benefit, or roughly $0 to $71,900 of manager-run residual before fully loaded manager costs, debt principal, personal taxes, and capital expenditures. It is a scenario-based result with LIMITED confidence—not an official iFixandRepair earnings disclosure.
The most important driver is whether the owner supplies day-to-day management labor while achieving enough sales and gross margin to cover technicians, parts, occupancy, advertising, and recurring franchise charges. The largest unresolved uncertainty is the absence of same-brand revenue and expense data by format, maturity, and owner role. Before making a decision, a buyer should verify the current Item 19, demand written substantiation for any financial claim, and reconcile franchisee interviews to actual profit-and-loss statements.