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What do all the annual fees add up to at $1M in sales?

All-in fee loads run from 6.0% to 10.0%; the typical system takes 7.3%.

20 of 23 systems disclose this.

Where each of the 20 systems that disclose it sits

Each dot is a system. The rule is the middle value.

Across the 20 systems that disclose it
Visiting Angels: 6.0%ComForCare: 6.1%One You Love Homecare: 6.2%FirstLight Home Care: 6.2%Amada Senior Care: 6.4%Seniors Helping Seniors: 6.4%Nurse Next Door: 6.7%Comfort Keepers: 7.0%Right at Home: 7.2%Homewatch CareGivers: 7.3%Hallmark Homecare: 7.3%Home Matters Caregiving: 7.3%SYNERGY HomeCare: 7.5%Senior Helpers: 7.6%Home Instead: 7.6%A Place At Home: 7.7%BrightStar Care: 8.1%Executive Home Care: 8.2%Assisting Hands Home Care: 10.0%CareBuilders at Home: 10.0%
Source: 2026 filings, read from each system's own disclosure documentHomecareHQ Intelligence · 2026 FDDs

CareBuilders at Home takes 10.0% of a million dollars of sales each year — more than any other system here

Sorted highest to lowest. Hatched rows are filings that say nothing.

Source: 2026 filings, read from each system's own disclosure documentHomecareHQ Intelligence · 2026 FDDs
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20 of 23 systems disclose this. Figures are read from each system’s own 2026 franchise disclosure document. How this data is built

Everything an owner pays the franchisor every year on a million dollars of sales — royalty, brand fund and technology fee together.

›How to read it

All-in fee load at $1M — Everything an owner pays the franchisor every year on a million dollars of sales — royalty, brand fund and technology fee together.

Higher means more of the year's sales goes to the franchisor. Lower means a lighter annual load.

It excludes one-off costs and anything an owner spends on their own marketing.

Every system on this measure

Sort any column. A blank means the filing does not disclose it, never zero.

All-in fee load at $1M for every home care franchise system, from 2026 franchise disclosure documents
SystemAll-in fee load at $1M
A Place At Home7.7%50Emerging
Amada Senior Care6.4%261Scaling
Assisting Hands Home Care10.0%232Scaling
BrightStar Care8.1%396Scaling
CareBuilders at Home10.0%28Early
ComForCare6.1%271Scaling
Comfort Keepers7.0%619Scaling
Executive Home Care8.2%79Emerging
FirstLight Home Care6.2%238Scaling
GriswoldNot disclosed in the 2026 FDD198Scaling
Hallmark Homecare7.3%59Emerging
Home Instead7.6%626Mature
Home Matters Caregiving7.3%31Emerging
HomeCare Advocacy NetworkNot disclosed in the 2026 FDD7Early
Homewatch CareGivers7.3%260Scaling
HomeWell Care ServicesNot disclosed in the 2026 FDD201Scaling
Nurse Next Door6.7%71Emerging
One You Love Homecare6.2%24Early
Right at Home7.2%566Scaling
Senior Helpers7.6%394Scaling
Seniors Helping Seniors6.4%224Scaling
SYNERGY HomeCare7.5%626Scaling
Visiting Angels6.0%541Mature

HomecareHQ analysis of 23 home care franchise systems’ 2026 disclosure documents. Listed alphabetically until you sort it.

3 of 23 filings do not disclose this

Not disclosed by Griswold, HomeCare Advocacy Network, HomeWell Care Services. A blank in the table means the filing is silent. It is never a zero.

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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.
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