This is an independent estimate of pre-tax owner-operator benefit per franchisee, not an official Window Gang profit disclosure. The base scenario is about $65,000. Because the 2025 Item 19 cohort averaged more than one Franchised Business per franchisee, the same method produces a lower $24,000–$47,000 range for one median-anchored Protected Territory.
This analytical scenario is not an Item 19 financial performance representation by Window Gang, LLC. It combines identified 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document facts with an Internal Revenue Service industry benchmark, a Bureau of Labor Statistics manager-wage benchmark, and explicit revenue and margin sensitivities. Actual results can differ materially by location, territory count, sales, seasonality, labor, vehicle and storage costs, financing, owner involvement, customer acquisition and execution.
Legal franchisor: Window Gang, LLC, owned through PSB Group, LLC and Premium Service Brands, LLC. FDD: issued April 22, 2026 and amended July 6, 2026. Item 19 status: Gross Sales only; no operating profit, EBITDA, Net Income, cash flow or Owner Compensation is disclosed. Population: 31 franchisees operating 45 Franchised Businesses for the full 2025 fiscal year under the stated inclusion rules. Checked: July 15, 2026.
2025 Item 19, one Franchised Business or territory-level outlet.
Owner-level revenue across portfolios that could include multiple businesses.
Full-year reporting cohort used in the 2025 Item 19 analysis.
2023 IRS Schedule C Administrative and Support Services data.
May 2023 BLS mean wage in Services to Buildings and Dwellings.
After-year-one FDD fees modeled before convention and third-party costs.
What does Window Gang’s 2026 FDD actually report?
Officially, Item 19 reports 2025 Gross Sales—not owner earnings. The strongest same-brand evidence is the median and average revenue for 45 Franchised Businesses operated by 31 franchisees during the full fiscal year. Gross Sales is revenue before the unit’s labor, vehicles, supplies, insurance, local operating expenses, recurring franchise fees, financing and owner taxes.
| 2025 Item 19 measure | Per Franchised Business | Per franchisee | Interpretation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average Gross Sales | $304,885 | $442,574 | Average can be pulled upward by larger portfolios and high-sales operators. |
| Median Gross Sales | $161,779 | $306,904 | The central anchors used in this analysis. |
| Reporting population | 45 businesses | 31 franchisees | Businesses were open all year under the same franchisee and met the data-collection rule. |
| Total reported Gross Sales | $13,719,803 | System cohort total, not revenue available to one owner. | |
The FDD’s per-franchisee revenue distribution is unusually wide: the bottom-quartile median was $62,264, the middle-50% median was $306,904, and the top-quartile median was $992,317. Those values combine differing territory counts, business ages and execution levels; they cannot be relabeled as profit or salary.
How representative is the disclosed cohort?
The cohort is substantial but incomplete. Item 19 excluded 12 franchisees operating 14 Franchised Businesses because the businesses were not open for the entire fiscal year or the franchisees were not using the customer relationship management system in a way that supported the disclosure. The included 45 businesses represent a derived 76.3% of the 59 businesses referenced in that inclusion-and-exclusion description.
Age also matters. For the five franchisees operating 12–23 months, median Gross Sales was only $13,255; for the 26 franchisees operating 24 months or more, the median was $191,268. Item 20 separately reports 51 franchised outlets at the end of 2025, no company-owned outlets, four transfers, one termination and two outlets that ceased operations for other reasons. The Item 19 and Item 20 populations use different purposes and should not be forced into one denominator.
FDD source: 2026 Window Gang Franchise Disclosure Document, Items 19–20, pages 43–49. The FDD title is unlinked because a matching public copy on an official franchise-controlled domain was not verified.
How is the $45,000–$89,000 owner-operator range calculated?
The estimate multiplies a per-franchisee revenue scenario by a broad all-in Schedule C net-income margin. It is an independent calculation for the 2025 owner-level cohort, not a franchisor-reported result. The $306,904 Item 19 median per franchisee is the central revenue anchor.
- Revenue: Conservative, Base and Upside use 80%, 100% and 120% of the official $306,904 per-franchisee median: $245,523, $306,904 and $368,285. The spread is analytical, not an FDD quartile or probability forecast.
- Margin: The 2023 IRS Administrative and Support Services sector reported $24.229 billion of net income less deficit on $114.423 billion of business receipts, a derived 21.175% margin. The scenarios use 18.175%, 21.175% and 24.175%, or the benchmark minus three percentage points, the benchmark, and plus three percentage points.
- Meaning: IRS Schedule C net income is used as a proxy for owner-operator benefit. It can reflect the proprietor’s labor and tax-return deductions, so it is not passive business profit and is not after-tax take-home pay.
- Portfolio scope: The Item 19 cohort had 45 businesses across 31 franchisees, or 1.45 businesses per franchisee on average. The exact territory count for the median franchisee is not disclosed.
| Scenario | Revenue anchor | All-in margin | Owner-operator benefit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | $245,523 | 18.2% | $44,625 |
| Base | $306,904 | 21.2% | $64,988 |
| Upside | $368,285 | 24.2% | $89,034 |
Per franchisee, before personal income taxes and financing principal payments.
Interpretation: The $65,000 base case is a midpoint of the analytical inputs, not the most likely outcome or a guarantee.
Sources: 2026 Window Gang FDD, Item 19, pages 43–45; IRS Schedule C study description and 2023 industrial-sector workbook. Calculations use unrounded inputs and display rounded dollars.
Using the official $161,779 median Gross Sales per Franchised Business instead of the per-franchisee median produces estimated owner-operator benefit of $23,523, $34,257 and $46,933 under the same Conservative, Base and Upside method. This $24,000–$47,000 range is the more relevant comparison for a buyer modeling one Protected Territory.
How does owner involvement change the economics?
Active operation is worth roughly the cost of the full-time manager the owner replaces. The 2026 FDD requires direct, full-time supervision by a Designated Manager. An individual owner can fill that role; a business entity may appoint a qualified manager. Therefore, the owner-operator range includes both residual business economics and compensation for the owner’s labor.
The manager-run comparison subtracts the BLS May 2023 mean annual wage of $48,970 for First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping and Janitorial Workers in Services to Buildings and Dwellings. BLS excludes self-employed owners. The figure is wages only, not payroll taxes, workers’ compensation, benefits, recruiting cost or market-specific premiums, so a fully loaded manager cost would generally be higher. The broad IRS margin does not reveal whether a paid supervisor was already embedded in each filer’s payroll; this subtraction is therefore a role sensitivity, not a directly observed Window Gang cost bridge.
Per-franchisee scenarios; the gap equals the $48,970 wage proxy.
Interpretation: The manager-run model ranges from an estimated $4,345 loss to a $40,064 residual, with a $16,018 base case. At the single-business median revenue, the comparable base residual is an estimated −$14,713.
Sources: 2026 Window Gang FDD, Item 7 page 20 and Item 15 pages 38–39; BLS May 2023 occupation and industry profile. The wage proxy is not a complete employer-cost estimate.
Calling the owner-operated figure “profit” would overstate the economics. Part of the $45,000–$89,000 range pays the owner for full-time supervision and operating work. A manager-run business separates that labor cost from the residual available to ownership, and the FDD does not support describing either structure as passive.
How much can disclosed recurring fees absorb?
At median-anchored single-business sales, the modeled recurring franchisor fee load is about $37,000–$42,000 per year. This derived calculation uses the 2026 Item 6 royalty, Marketing Fund, after-year-one Contact Center minimum, Technology Fee and Accounting and Business Advisory Services Fee. It is a fee burden, not a profit estimate.
| Single-business scenario | Gross Sales | Modeled recurring fees | Fees as % of sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | $129,423 | $37,180 | 28.7% |
| Base | $161,779 | $39,722 | 24.6% |
| Upside | $194,135 | $42,311 | 21.8% |
What is inside the $39,722 base fee estimate?
The base figure is derived from five recurring obligations for one mature business. At $161,779 of annual Gross Sales, the calculation is a $9,706.74 royalty, $3,235.58 Marketing Fund contribution, $11,440 Contact Center minimum, $10,920 Technology Fee and $4,420 Accounting and Business Advisory Services Fee, totaling $39,722.32 before publication rounding.
- Royalty: 6% of Gross Sales, subject to a $150 weekly minimum.
- Marketing Fund: 2% of Gross Sales, subject to a $50 weekly minimum.
- Contact Center: after the first year, the greater of 2% of Gross Sales or $220 weekly, capped at $770 weekly.
- Technology and accounting: $210 weekly and $85 weekly, respectively. The FDD permits an approved third-party accounting provider after 12 months, but the service requirement continues; the provider’s actual price may differ from the $85 weekly franchisor fee used here.
The fee model excludes the annual convention, contingent or noncompliance fees, third-party digital marketing and software charges, merchant costs, local advertising, insurance, vehicles, supplies, technicians, storage and capital replacement. The Advertising Cooperative amount is not added because Item 6 says it is not in addition to other required marketing spend.
These fees are not subtracted again from the IRS all-in margin used in the earnings scenarios. The IRS tax-return margin already reflects unspecified business deductions, and its tables do not identify which filers paid franchise fees. A second subtraction would risk double counting. The separate fee analysis instead shows why the broad margin proxy may not match a Window Gang unit—especially at lower sales where weekly minimums raise the effective fee percentage.
FDD source: 2026 Window Gang Franchise Disclosure Document, Item 6, pages 16–18. Initial fees and the Item 7 investment range are not treated as annual operating expenses.
What could move actual owner earnings outside the range?
The largest unresolved variable is the actual unit-level expense margin after all labor, vehicles, supplies, insurance, customer acquisition and recurring fees. The FDD discloses sales but not a standardized franchisee profit-and-loss statement. The IRS benchmark is broad, includes sole proprietors outside this exact business format, and can include owner labor in Net Income.
- Request Item 19 written substantiation. Reconcile the 45-business cohort, exclusions, Gross Sales definition and territory counting to the current offering.
- Match franchisee interviews by portfolio. Ask how many Protected Territories, vehicles and crews each owner operates, and how long each business has been open.
- Separate owner labor from business profit. Obtain annual owner hours, Designated Manager wages, technician payroll, payroll burden and any owner salary already included in the P&L.
- Verify every recurring obligation. Confirm royalty, Marketing Fund, Contact Center, technology, accounting, local advertising, required software and supplier costs for the specific agreement.
- Model cash demands outside operating earnings. Keep financing principal, vehicle replacement, equipment replacement, working capital and personal income taxes separate.
- Review Item 20 contacts and exits. Ask current and former franchisees about transfers, ceased operations, seasonality and the time required to reach stable sales; note that some franchisees may have confidentiality restrictions.
The published estimates are pre-tax and before financing principal payments. The IRS net-income benchmark may already reflect interest and depreciation reported by its Schedule C filers, so this analysis does not separately add or remove those items. Personal income taxes are not estimated because they depend on entity structure, jurisdiction, deductions and the owner’s circumstances.
FTC guidance explains why financial performance representations must have a reasonable basis and why buyers should use the disclosure and substantiation carefully. See the FTC Franchise Rule Compliance Guide for the federal disclosure framework.
What is the strongest defensible Window Gang earnings range?
The strongest defensible estimate is approximately $45,000–$89,000 of annual pre-tax owner-operator benefit per franchisee, with a $65,000 base scenario. It is a Mode C independent estimate with Limited confidence, anchored to the official 2025 median Gross Sales per franchisee and a broad IRS Schedule C margin. For one median-anchored Protected Territory, the comparable range is approximately $24,000–$47,000.
The most important earnings driver is sales scale relative to fixed labor and fee obligations; the owner’s decision to serve as the required full-time Designated Manager can change available owner benefit by roughly the replacement-manager cost. The largest uncertainty is the absence of same-brand operating-expense and profit data. A buyer should verify the Item 19 substantiation, actual franchisee P&Ls, owner hours, manager and technician costs, territory count, maturity, recurring fees, debt service and capital replacement directly against comparable current and former franchisees.