2026 FDD Item 19, p. 61 Checked Oct 9, 2026
Great Clips Franchise Revenue and Operating Cash Flow (2026 FDD)
In Item 19 of its 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document, Great Clips reports average Total Sales of $410,783 (January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025, 4,158 U.S. and Canadian franchised salons eligible to be open throughout 2025, not necessarily open every week). The figures below are selected disclosures, not a substitute for reading the full Item 19.
Startup cost: a Great Clips franchise costs an estimated $187,800 – $419,900 to open (Item 7). See the full Great Clips franchise cost breakdown.
Does Great Clips’s Item 19 show profit or owner pay?
Partly. Besides sales, Great Clips’s Item 19 reports “Average Operating Cash Flow”, “Median Operating Cash Flow” and 2 similar figures. Each figure follows the franchisor’s own definition in Item 19, which decides which costs are deducted and whether an owner’s salary is one of them. None of them is necessarily an owner’s take-home pay.
What Great Clips discloses (Item 19)
Source: Great Clips 2026 FDD, Item 19, PDF p. 61.
| Figure | Value | Period | Based on |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average Total Sales | $410,783 | January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025 | 4,158 U.S. and Canadian franchised salons eligible to be open throughout 2025, not necessarily open every week (Item 19, PDF p. 61) |
| Median Total Sales | $390,685 | January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025 | 4,158 U.S. and Canadian franchised salons eligible to be open throughout 2025, not necessarily open every week (Item 19, PDF p. 61) |
| Highest Total Sales | $1,082,803 | January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025 | 4,158 U.S. and Canadian franchised salons eligible to be open throughout 2025, not necessarily open every week (Item 19, PDF p. 61) |
| Lowest Total Sales | $28,036 | January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025 | 4,158 U.S. and Canadian franchised salons eligible to be open throughout 2025, not necessarily open every week (Item 19, PDF p. 61) |
| Average Operating Cash Flow | $83,504 | 2025 reporting period; some expense data annualized from different accounting periods | 2,376 Reporting 2025 Salons in the U.S. and Canada with sufficient financial data, a subset of the 4,158 eligible salons (Item 19, PDF p. 62) |
| Median Operating Cash Flow | $75,896 | 2025 reporting period; some expense data annualized from different accounting periods | 2,376 Reporting 2025 Salons in the U.S. and Canada with sufficient financial data, a subset of the 4,158 eligible salons (Item 19, PDF p. 62) |
| Highest Actual Annual Operating Cash Flow | $336,116 | 2025 reporting period | 2,376 Reporting 2025 Salons in the U.S. and Canada with sufficient financial data (Item 19, PDF p. 65) |
| Lowest Actual Annual Operating Cash Flow | $-130,672 | 2025 reporting period | 2,376 Reporting 2025 Salons in the U.S. and Canada with sufficient financial data (Item 19, PDF p. 65) |
Item 19 sample and definitions
Table 1 covers 4,158 U.S. and Canadian salons eligible to be open throughout 2025, not salons necessarily operating every week. It excludes permanently closed salons and ownership changes; the lowest-sales salon operated during only six nonconsecutive months and had no sales in 36 weeks (PDF pp. 59-61). Table 2 cash flow covers a smaller 2,376-salon reporting sample; 1,782 eligible salons supplied no or insufficient expense data. Non-reporting salons were disproportionately below the reporting sample's median sales; including all of them would lower that median by 2.8%. Some expense data came from different accounting periods and was annualized (PDF p. 62). Operating Cash Flow is the FDD's Total Sales less Total Expenses, not net profit or take-home owner income. It excludes income taxes, depreciation/amortization and reserves for future capital expenditure. Labor includes salon managers but excludes identifiable general-manager or franchisee labor. Reported results were not independently audited or verified; Canadian figures were converted to U.S. dollars by the franchisor (PDF pp. 59, 63-64).
How to interpret Great Clips’s Item 19 figures and sample limits · What Item 19 does and does not show about owner pay.
Mandatory local co-op dues vary by cooperative; the disclosed system average is not a universal salon fee. Training charges can change and local advertising is additional, so a complete uniform fee total is not estimated. Reported sales are not owner income.
Scope of these figures: The selected Great Clips disclosures above retain their recorded periods and samples. The lead figure covers 4,158 U.S. and Canadian franchised salons eligible to be open throughout 2025, not necessarily open every week. They do not establish take-home owner income or the results of a new outlet. Read the linked Item 19 for the franchisor's definitions and exclusions.
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Sources
Great Clips, Inc. Franchise Disclosure Document, issued March 30, 2026, as filed with the Minnesota Commerce (CARDS). Read the source FDD PDF. How to get this FDD yourself.
- Item 5: cited PDF p. 17
- Item 6: cited PDF p. 20
- Item 7: cited PDF p. 23
- Item 19: cited PDF p. 61
- Item 20: cited PDF p. 76
- Agreement term (Item 17): cited PDF p. 54
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Document & verification changelog
- October 30, 2026: Record updated.
- October 30, 2026: Added liquid-capital and net-worth qualification amounts from Great Clips' official franchise investment page. Higher-cost-market thresholds are stated separately; these figures are not from the FDD.
- October 9, 2026: Source check completed against the recorded FDD.
- October 9, 2026: Initial cost profile published from the 2026 Franchise Disclosure Document (issued March 30, 2026).