How Much Does a World Inspection Network Franchise Owner Make?

Officially, Item 19 measures 2025 Gross Revenue per reporting franchisee, not earnings per territory and not owner take-home pay. The population consists of franchisees that owned one or more WIN franchise units and reported for the 12 months ended December 31, 2025. The disclosure excludes operating costs, owner compensation, debt service, and personal taxes.

Source: World Inspection Network International LLC, 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document, Item 19, pp. 37–41. Amounts are rounded to the nearest dollar. “Gross Revenue” is revenue before costs and expenses.

Officially, 142 of 168 franchisees appear in the two 2025 revenue tables, while 26 were excluded for insufficient operating history, missing reports, or noncompliance. Item 19 also says 35 franchisees that closed during 2025 were excluded. Item 20 separately reports 247 franchised territories at year-end, down from 271, because Item 20 counts outlets or territories while Item 19 reports franchisees; those populations should not be merged.

Source: 2026 FDD, Item 19, pp. 38–41; Item 20, pp. 41–47.

The $16,000–$148,000 range is an independent estimate using three official 2025 revenue anchors and a reproducible expense bridge. The Conservative scenario uses the below-$100,000 cohort median, the Base scenario uses the median for the $100,000-or-more cohort, and the Upside scenario uses the first-quartile median within that higher-revenue cohort. These are analytical anchors, not probabilities or franchisor forecasts.

The Base estimate is $63,315 on $205,899 of Gross Revenue for a full-time owner-operated business. It uses the IRS selected-expense ratio, the FDD’s 11% variable fees, 7.5% local promotion within the FDD’s recommended 5%–10% range, a 2% miscellaneous reserve, and $6,100 of modeled fixed recurring fees.

• IRS expense proxy: ($1,333,277,000 total deductions − $86,662,000 other business expenses − $22,713,000 advertising) ÷ $2,673,038,000 receipts = 45.79%. Advertising is removed because local promotion is modeled separately; “other business expenses” is removed to reduce overlap with WIN-specific fees. The IRS category also includes drafting and geophysical surveying, and some residual overlap with technology or administration may remain.
• Local promotion: Conservative uses the FDD’s recommended $600 monthly floor, Base uses 7.5% of revenue, and Upside uses 5% of revenue. These are scenario assumptions, not historical franchisee spending data.
• Included or proxied: cost of sales, vehicle expense, contract labor, depreciation, insurance, office costs, wages, supplies, taxes, travel, utilities, and other identified IRS deductions.
• Excluded or separate: personal income taxes, acquisition-debt principal and buyer-specific loan interest, extra WINnovation Platform users, a future Call Center Fee, extraordinary legal or audit costs, and major capital expenditures beyond the depreciation proxy.
• Owner compensation treatment: a sole proprietor’s own labor is not a deductible wage in the IRS benchmark. The result is therefore owner-operator benefit, not passive business profit.

The modeled range is most defensible for an active owner because the FDD requires an approved Designated Owner to work exclusively and full time unless written approval says otherwise. The estimate combines residual business economics with the value of inspection and operating work performed by the owner; it should not be read as passive income.

The largest uncertainty is the missing same-brand expense statement, followed by whether a prospective owner resembles the included 2025 cohorts. The estimate is limited for any owner with materially different territory count, local marketing intensity, staffing structure, licensing burden, insurance cost, financing, or operating maturity.

• Per-franchisee versus per-territory: Item 19 reports franchisees that may own more than one territory. A buyer with one territory should not assume that every revenue observation is a single-territory result.
• Survivorship and reporting: 35 franchisees that closed in 2025 were excluded, and nine franchisees were excluded for reporting and/or compliance reasons. Their economics are not visible in the revenue tables.
• Marketing intensity: Item 11 recommends at least $600 per month after the first three months and typically 5%–10% of Gross Revenue. Actual spend and lead efficiency can materially change owner benefit.
• Additional labor: adding inspectors may expand capacity but introduces wages, payroll burden, workers’ compensation, training, vehicle, equipment, and scheduling costs.
• Debt and taxes: the scenarios do not calculate personal income tax or assume a standard financing package. Loan interest and principal should be applied separately to the buyer’s actual terms.

A buyer should treat $16,000–$148,000 as a diligence range and replace every proxy with local, same-brand evidence before making a decision. The most useful checks are 2025 profit-and-loss statements from comparable franchisees, Item 19 written substantiation, and a clean separation of owner labor from residual business profit.

• Ask for the written substantiation supporting Item 19 and confirm whether each observation covers one territory or multiple territories.
• Interview current and former franchisees from Item 20 with similar operating age, state licensing rules, territory count, and owner role.
• Request actual 2025 expense percentages for local marketing, insurance, vehicles, tools, subcontractors, employee inspectors, and technology.
• Separate owner salary or draw, payroll for services performed, distributions, retained earnings, depreciation, and capital expenditures.
• Confirm the current Royalty Fee, System Brand Fee, Infrastructure Fee, additional-user charges, Convention Fee, and any Call Center requirement in the final agreement.
• Apply the buyer’s actual loan amount, rate, term, interest, and principal schedule separately; do not convert the operating estimate into after-tax take-home pay.