Franchised businesses operated 767,483 establishments in the United States in 2001, counting both establishments operated by franchisees and establishments owned by franchisors.

They provided 9,797,117 jobs, met a $229.1 billion payroll, and produced $624.6 billion of output. Hence, franchised businesses accounted for 7.4 percent of all private-sector jobs, 5.0 percent of all private sector payrolls, and 3.9 percent of all private-sector output.

To indicate economic size in a different way, franchised businesses employed about the same number of people in 2001 as did all manufacturers of durable goods, such as computers, cars, trucks, planes, communications equipment, primary metals, wood products, and instruments.