Average Salary by Years of Experience and Gender

• According to a 2009 PayScale survey, a female small-business owners' average annual salary is between $25,000 and $70,000. A male small-business owners' average salary falls between $50,000 and $100,000 per year. The average annual salary of an owner with one to four years' experience is $35,000; five to nine years' experience, $40,000; and 10 to 19 years' experience, $45,000.
  
  

Average Salary by Employer Type

• Employer types include self-employed owner companies, franchise owners and owners of private practice companies. Self-employed company owners, make a salary between $40,000 and $100,000 per year according to the 2009 PayScale survey. Franchise-owned companies' owners make and annual average salary between $50,000 and $120,000; and private practice owners are paid between $80,000 and $180,000 per year.
  
  

Average Salary by City

• Business owners in Houston have a median salary between $60,000 and $180,000 annually; owners in New York have the highest paying salary of between $60,000 and $200,000 per year. These are 2009 figures provided by PayScale.
  
  

Average Salary by State

• Per PayScale, Texas, Illinois and California have the highest paid average salaries for a business owners. Texas is between $60,000 and $120,000, Illinois is between $50,000 and $170,000, and California is between $50,000 and $160,000 per year. These salaries are throughout the market for all types of businesses in these states in 2009.
  
  

Average Salary by Company Size

• According to PayScale, the highest salary for a small-business owner at a company with between 200 and 599 employees was from $50,000 to $225,000 in 2009.
  
  

Average Salary Based on Sales

• If the company had annual sales of up $99,999 the salary was as low as $60,000 annually, according to the 2009 PayScale survey. If the sales were between $100,000 and $1,900,000 per year the lowest average salary was $80,000 annually.