The companies’ own numbers, in one table

MLM Income Disclosure Database (2026)

Every network marketing company that publishes an income disclosure is required to tell you, somewhere in the fine print, what people actually earn. Almost nobody reads those documents. I did. This page collects the companies’ own published numbers, with a link to every primary document, so you can check me on all of it.

Here is why this matters. When someone invites you into one of these companies, the pitch is built on the exception: the top rank, the leader with the Lexus, the screenshot. The disclosure statement is the company’s own legal accounting of the rule. If you read one page before you join anything, read the disclosure. This table is all of them at once.

Three things before the numbers, because every one of these documents plays some version of the same three games. First, every figure is gross income before expenses: starter kits, autoship, renewal fees, events, samples. Several companies concede in their own fine print that expenses can exceed earnings entirely. Second, watch the denominator: some tables quietly exclude people who earned nothing, count only people active a full twelve months, or reclassify inactive distributors as “customers,” which removes the least successful people from the math before it is calculated. Third, some companies report monthly instead of annual figures, which reads bigger. Where a company only publishes monthly numbers, I say so rather than converting.

What the income disclosures actually show

† Most recent edition that could be independently verified from a primary document; these companies’ newer statements exist but their sites blocked archival access on the access date. ‡ Primerica’s figure was captured from two independent renderings of its own disclosure page, which blocked direct access; it is the one row not read directly from a primary document. All figures are gross income before business expenses, as published by each company. Accessed 2026-07-03.

How do most people actually do in an MLM?

Read the table’s middle column and the pattern is hard to unsee. At Young Living, the median Brand Partner made $13 for the year. At Monat, the median partner at the rank holding 92% of all partners made $8. Optavia, with one of the most complete disclosures in the industry, shows 23% earning zero and the median coach somewhere between $250 and $500 for the year, before expenses. Amway’s own average, including everyone below its Founders Platinum pin, is $723, and Amway notes that 38% of its IBOs had no sales activity at all. These are not critics’ numbers. They are the companies’ numbers, published because regulators require honesty in at least one document.

And remember the direction of the bias: every figure above is before expenses, and several populations already exclude the people who quit or earned nothing. The real median experience is worse than this table, not better.

Why do companies publish these at all?

Because the FTC’s guidance on multi-level marketing makes unsubstantiated income claims a legal liability, and a published disclosure is the company’s defense: whatever the recruiter promised you, the document said otherwise. That is exactly why it is the one document worth trusting more than the person recruiting you, and why I run every company on this site through the same five-question review rubric, with the income disclosure as the spine of it.

Methodology

Every number on this page was taken from the named company’s own published income disclosure, earnings statement, or policy document, read directly on the access date (2026-07-03). Where a company’s site blocked archival access, I used the most recent edition of the company’s own document preserved by Truth in Advertising and marked it with a dagger. Where a statistic is not derivable from the published table without assumptions, the cell says “not published” rather than an estimate. No figure on this page is modeled, extrapolated, or converted between monthly and annual. This page is updated as companies release new statements; the disclosure-year column tells you exactly which edition each row reflects. If you find a newer primary document than the one linked, send it to me and I will update the row.

For the full story on any company, the linked reviews go deeper: Amway, Herbalife, Monat, Young Living, Optavia, Primerica, Melaleuca, LiveGood, and Color Street, or start with the full honest index.