How Much Does a Window Genie Franchise Owner Make?

Officially, Item 19 measures Gross Sales and operating activity—not owner earnings. For calendar year 2025, the mature 94-business cohort produced median Gross Sales of $386,484 and average Gross Sales of $475,663. Gross Sales is revenue before labor, supplies, vehicles, insurance, advertising, franchise fees, technology, debt service, and owner compensation.

The FDD also reports average Gross Sales per job of $549 across 101 businesses, a median of $540, and an average of 3.2 completed jobs per business per day on a seven-day calculation basis. For the 94 mature businesses, recurring customers represented an average 43.3% and median 46.6% of jobs. Those measures help explain revenue formation, but none establishes profit or take-home pay.

The estimate multiplies three official FDD revenue anchors by a broad official industry residual-margin proxy, then separates business profit from owner labor. Conservative revenue uses the median of the FDD’s bottom-25% group, Base uses the median of all 94 mature businesses, and Upside uses the median of the top-25% group. These labels are analytical scenarios; they are not probabilities or franchisor forecasts.

The Base margin is 7.8%, an external benchmark rather than a Window Genie result. IRS Statistics of Income Table 5.1 reports $412.576 billion of total receipts and $32.117 billion of net income less deficit for 259,216 active corporations classified as “Other administrative and support services” in tax year 2022. Dividing net income less deficit by total receipts gives 7.784%. The Conservative and Upside margins are 3 percentage points below and above that ratio: 4.784% and 10.784%.

The benchmark category is broad. The operating model spans window cleaning, pressure washing, gutter cleaning, holiday lighting, and window tinting. The closest classification rationale is that the 2022 NAICS definition for 561720 includes window cleaning, while the 2022 NAICS definition for 561790 includes building-exterior and gutter cleaning. The IRS row is still materially broader than a Window Genie franchised business, which is the principal reason for the Limited confidence rating.

• Manager-run residual formula: FDD revenue anchor × scenario margin. It is an estimated pre-tax residual after the aggregate deductions reflected in the IRS benchmark, not FDD-reported EBITDA or Net Income.
• Owner-operator benefit formula: manager-run residual + $48,970 of labor value. The added amount is compensation for the owner’s work, not passive business profit.
• Rounding: calculations use full-precision inputs and are shown to the nearest dollar in the table; headline ranges are rounded to the nearest $1,000.
• Excluded: personal income taxes, financing principal, acquisition price, startup investment, major replacement capital expenditures, and any owner-specific tax or entity effects.
• Interest and depreciation: the IRS tax-return residual generally reflects reported interest and depreciation deductions, but its accounting treatment is not a clean match for unit-level cash flow.

The FDD generally requires active owner operation or supervision unless the franchisor consents otherwise. Item 15 states that an individual franchisee must directly perform or supervise the business. For an entity-owned franchise, a designated principal owner must provide direct, on-site supervision. If Window Genie SPV LLC permits the owner not to supervise personally, a trained bona fide manager must directly supervise.

That structure makes the owner’s role economically material. The model uses 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 as a conservative labor-value proxy. A true general manager may cost more, and payroll taxes, benefits, recruiting, and turnover costs are not added. Conversely, an owner who does not fully replace a manager should not add the full wage proxy.

It includes a modeled operating residual and, only for the owner-operator scenario, the wage value of work the owner performs. It does not represent after-tax take-home pay, financing principal, or a return on the initial investment.

Business revenue

Item 19 Gross Sales. This is the top line, not earnings.

Manager-run residual

Cash-like pre-tax business residual approximated from an all-in IRS net-income ratio. It is before financing principal and personal income tax.

Owner-operator benefit

Manager-run residual plus the supported market wage value of supervision performed by the owner.

Debt service

Loan principal is excluded. Interest is not modeled separately because the IRS residual already reflects aggregate interest deductions; actual financing can materially change cash available to the owner.

Taxes

No after-tax take-home estimate is published. Federal, state, local, payroll, and entity-level tax outcomes depend on the buyer’s structure and circumstances.

The most important disclosed recurring charges are the 7% License Fee, 2% MAP Fee, substantial local-marketing requirements, software, and call-center costs. These obligations are official FDD facts. They are not subtracted again from the scenario margin because the IRS ratio is already an all-in residual after aggregate business deductions; subtracting them mechanically would double-count expenses. The limitation is that the IRS expense mix may not resemble Window Genie’s exact fee burden.

Source: Window Genie 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document, Item 6, pp. 17–28. Illustrations use the official 2025 mature-cohort median Gross Sales of $386,484 and are rounded to the nearest dollar.

The same-brand revenue evidence is current and detailed, but the profit conversion is not same-brand evidence. Item 19 does not disclose labor cost, direct materials, vehicle expense, insurance, occupancy, advertising efficiency, manager compensation, operating profit, EBITDA, Net Income, distributions, or owner compensation. The 7.8% IRS ratio is authoritative but broad, older than the 2025 FDD performance period, and based on corporate tax returns rather than comparable Window Genie unit-level statements.

The official 94-business annual sales cohort excludes new and closed operations. Nine franchised businesses closed during 2025 and were excluded from Item 19 because they were not operating at year-end. Two businesses that opened during 2025 but reported no sales were excluded from Parts I and II. Parts III through V exclude nine businesses opened in 2025 because they did not operate and report sales for the full year. These exclusions make the mature cohort useful for stabilized operations but unsuitable as a startup-year expectation.

Source: Window Genie 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document, Item 19, Part V, pp. 70–71. Definitions and inclusion rules are consistent within the FDD table; the figures do not reveal profit.

A buyer should replace the external margin proxy with actual same-brand operating statements whenever possible. The FTC notes that prospective franchisees may request written substantiation for Item 19 and should test whether the disclosure applies to the planned location and operating model. Existing and former franchisees listed in Item 20 are the most direct source for owner-role, labor, seasonality, and cash-flow evidence.

• Request the written substantiation supporting Item 19 Parts I through V, including the underlying definitions and treatment of partial-year reporting.
• Ask mature franchisees for revenue, technician payroll, payroll burden, materials, vehicle costs, insurance, local marketing, software, call-center fees, bad debt, depreciation, and owner compensation on a consistent 12-month basis.
• Separate owner salary or draw from distributions and retained earnings. Confirm whether the owner works in sales, dispatch, estimating, field supervision, or service delivery.
• Compare owner-operated and manager-run businesses with similar territory size, household profile, climate, service mix, and years in operation.
• Reconcile the 7% License Fee, 2% MAP Fee, minimum fees, local marketing, Local Marketing Group credits, software, call-center charges, Key Accounts fees, and meeting costs to actual general-ledger entries.
• Ask closed and transferred franchisees about the revenue level at which labor, marketing, vehicles, and minimum fees became difficult to support.
• Model debt principal and owner-specific taxes separately. Neither belongs in an operating earnings comparison.

The most defensible annual range is approximately $55,000 to $136,000 of estimated pre-tax owner-operator benefit, or approximately $6,000 to $87,000 of manager-run residual business earnings. Both are scenario-based, not official earnings disclosures. The Base illustrations are approximately $79,000 for an active owner and $30,000 for a manager-run business.

The primary earnings driver is Gross Sales relative to labor and local-marketing efficiency. The largest unresolved uncertainty is the absence of same-brand unit-level expense and profit data in Item 19, especially the interaction between technician labor, mandatory marketing, minimum fees, and owner compensation. Before making a decision, a buyer should verify the Item 19 substantiation, obtain comparable franchisee profit-and-loss statements, and interview both active owner-operators and manager-run owners. The range should then be recalculated with local wages, actual fee treatment, vehicle costs, financing, and the buyer’s intended workload.

All figures are pre-tax and presented for decision analysis. They are not predictions, guarantees, after-tax take-home estimates, or representations by the franchisor.