Merry Maids Franchise Review and FDD Snapshot

Merry Maids Franchise Review and FDD Snapshot


Residential & Commercial Cleaning

Merry Maids

We grant Merry Maids® franchises that offer cleaning services to (i) residential customers and (ii) commercial customers with office spaces under 5,000 square feet.

Reported franchisees 802
Investment range $126,880 to $170,110
Average unit volume $487,441
Latest FDD filing year 2025

Economics Highlights

  • Initial fee: $55,000
  • Royalty: 7% of Gross Sales, weekly. Incentive: 6% after $400,000; 5% after $500,000 in calendar year.
  • Brand fund: 1.3% of weekly Gross Sales to National Advertising Fund.
  • Local ad minimum: 0.7% of weekly Gross Sales on Eligible Marketing; $6,000 initial for new franchises.
  • Item 19 median AUV: $487,441
  • Item 19 coverage: 41.5%

What Merry Maids Does

We grant Merry Maids® franchises that offer cleaning services to (i) residential customers and (ii) commercial customers with office spaces under 5,000 square feet.

This page is generated from Franchise Fox franchise and FDD-derived data. Reported franchisee counts and economics usually come from the most recent available FDD snapshot rather than manually edited marketing copy.

Scale and Filing Notes

Latest effective date 2025-07-31
Tracked states Not available
Net unit change, 3 years -82
Tracked locations in export 0

The current Franchise Fox dataset has strong FDD coverage, but live location counts are still sparse in the denormalized export. For now, the best “size” signal is reported franchisee count.