What does that royalty really collect at $1M in sales?
Effective royalties run from 3.5% to 9.0%; the typical system collects 5.0%.
All 23 systems disclose this.
Where each of the 23 systems that disclose it sits
Each dot is a system. The rule is the middle value.
CareBuilders at Home collects 9.0% on a million dollars of sales — more than any other system here
Sorted highest to lowest. Hatched rows are filings that say nothing.
6 systems between the highest and lowest are not drawn here. The full field is in the data table below.
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All 23 systems disclose this. Figures are read from each system’s own 2026 franchise disclosure document. How this data is built
The royalty an owner actually pays on a million dollars of sales, once any tiers or step-downs in the schedule are applied.
›How to read it
Effective royalty at $1M — The royalty an owner actually pays on a million dollars of sales, once any tiers or step-downs in the schedule are applied.
Higher means more of a million dollars goes to the franchisor. Lower means the schedule eases as the business grows.
It is not the sticker rate, and it excludes the brand fund and technology fees.
Every system on this measure
Sort any column. A blank means the filing does not disclose it, never zero.
| System | Effective royalty at $1M | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| A Place At Home | 5.5% | 50 | Emerging |
| Amada Senior Care | 5.0% | 261 | Scaling |
| Assisting Hands Home Care | 5.0% | 232 | Scaling |
| BrightStar Care | 5.3% | 396 | Scaling |
| CareBuilders at Home | 9.0% | 28 | Early |
| ComForCare | 5.0% | 271 | Scaling |
| Comfort Keepers | 5.0% | 619 | Scaling |
| Executive Home Care | 6.0% | 79 | Emerging |
| FirstLight Home Care | 5.0% | 238 | Scaling |
| Griswold | 5.0% | 198 | Scaling |
| Hallmark Homecare | 6.0% | 59 | Emerging |
| Home Instead | 5.0% | 626 | Mature |
| Home Matters Caregiving | 6.0% | 31 | Emerging |
| HomeCare Advocacy Network | 7.0% | 7 | Early |
| Homewatch CareGivers | 5.0% | 260 | Scaling |
| HomeWell Care Services | 6.0% | 201 | Scaling |
| Nurse Next Door | 5.0% | 71 | Emerging |
| One You Love Homecare | 5.0% | 24 | Early |
| Right at Home | 5.0% | 566 | Scaling |
| Senior Helpers | 5.0% | 394 | Scaling |
| Seniors Helping Seniors | 5.4% | 224 | Scaling |
| SYNERGY HomeCare | 5.0% | 626 | Scaling |
| Visiting Angels | 3.5% | 541 | Mature |
HomecareHQ analysis of 23 home care franchise systems’ 2026 disclosure documents. Listed alphabetically until you sort it.
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How to read this data
- These are each system's own disclosures, not our opinion of them. Every number on this page comes out of a filing the system published itself. Where we calculate something — an effective royalty, a fee load, a growth rate — we show the inputs and the formula alongside it.
- A blank means the filing did not say, never zero. Systems disclose different things, so most measures are filed by some of the field and not all of it. Where a figure rests on part of the field, we say how much of it.
- Nothing here is a ranking. Most of these measures have no better direction: a lower royalty is not automatically a better system, and a bigger territory is not automatically a better deal. We show where a system sits and leave the judgement to you.
Ask HQ answers with the same benchmarks — your growth, your fees, your margins.