What does an owner pay Griswold each year?
Griswold Home Care collects 5.0% on a million dollars of sales.
Across 23 home care systems
Whose royalty collects more than Griswold's at $1M in sales? →
Griswold charges the same rate on every dollar of gross receipts.
The rate on the price list, and the rate a million dollars of sales pays
Where the two marks sit on top of each other, the rate is flat.
›View data & method
| System | On the price list | At $1M in sales |
|---|---|---|
| CareBuilders at Home | 9.0% | 9.0% |
| HomeCare Advocacy Network | 7.0% | 7.0% |
| Executive Home Care | 6.0% | 6.0% |
| Hallmark Homecare | 6.0% | 6.0% |
| Home Matters Caregiving | 6.0% | 6.0% |
| HomeWell Care Services | 6.0% | 6.0% |
| A Place At Home | 5.5% | 5.5% |
| Seniors Helping Seniors | 6.0% | 5.4% |
| BrightStar Care | 5.3% | 5.3% |
| Amada Senior Care | 5.0% | 5.0% |
| Assisting Hands Home Care | 5.0% | 5.0% |
| ComForCare | 5.0% | 5.0% |
| Comfort Keepers | 5.0% | 5.0% |
| FirstLight Home Care | 5.0% | 5.0% |
| Griswold | 5.0% | 5.0% |
| Home Instead | 5.0% | 5.0% |
| Homewatch CareGivers | 5.0% | 5.0% |
| Nurse Next Door | 5.0% | 5.0% |
| One You Love Homecare | 5.0% | 5.0% |
| Right at Home | 5.0% | 5.0% |
| Senior Helpers | 5.0% | 5.0% |
| SYNERGY HomeCare | 5.0% | 5.0% |
| Visiting Angels | 3.5% | 3.5% |
The effective rate is what the schedule actually collects at a million dollars of sales, worked out from the tiers as the filing prints them. A flat schedule collects its sticker rate at every level, so its two marks coincide — that is the picture, not a drawing error.
Charged on gross receipts. 17 of the 21 systems that state a base charge on everything billed. Source ↗
What else comes out every month
Griswold expects a business to be billing $700K a year once it is established.
The sales an owner is expected to reach
Each step is a period the filing names.
›View data & method
| Period | Amount |
|---|---|
| Second Cale… | $250K |
| Third Calen… | $350K |
| Fourth Cale… | $400K |
| Fifth Calen… | $450K |
| Sixth Calen… | $500K |
| Seventh Cal… | $550K |
| Eighth Cale… | $600K |
| Ninth Calen… | $650K |
| Tenth and E… | $700K |
Drawn only where the filing makes the timing of each step clear. Where a schedule’s periods are ambiguous it is listed in words and not charted, because a step chart is a claim about months.
Miss it and the agreement can be terminated. p. 21 ↗
What is paid once
How to read these fees
- The sticker royalty is the smallest part of the answer. What a rate collects depends on what it is charged on — everything billed, or billings after refunds and collected taxes — and on what else recurs beside it.
- The total is shown at a million dollars of sales. That is a common figure to reach and it makes systems quoting percentages, monthly amounts and flat minimums add up in the same units. It is arithmetic, not a forecast.
- Local marketing is not a fee. Money a system requires an owner to spend in their own market is a real obligation and it does not go to the franchisor, so it sits outside the total and is listed on its own.
›The numbers behind this page
What the agreement says about the minimum
Starting in the second calendar year after the opening date, you are required to achieve certain annual minimum sales quotas (“Annual Sales Performance Metric”) as set forth in the table below:
What this filing does not disclose
- A single all-in figure: one of the recurring fees is not stated as a number, and a total built from the rest would understate it.
- A technology fee: the filing does not state one as a monthly amount.
- What is owed before the first client: the filing does not state all three of the fixed monthly amounts that would make one up.
Every fee on this page is read from Griswold’s own 2026 disclosure document. The annual total is our arithmetic on those stated fees at a million dollars of sales, and it holds the royalty, the brand fund and the technology fee — the three things paid to the franchisor every year, whatever the business does. Source ↗
Ask HQ reads your billings and overhead against the same benchmarks these filings make comparable.