NEWARK, N.J.—The national average for gross revenue at ECP locations decreased last month, May 2026, when compared with the previous month at a rate of -14 index points. That places gross revenue at a level -8 index points below where it was at this point in time (May) when compared with last year (2025), -5 points below the same period in 2024, -2 points below 2023, 17 points above 2022, 27 points above 2021, 70 points above 2020 (during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic) and 39 points above 2019, according to Jobson’s most recent Practice Performance Tracker.
Following the decrease in gross revenue, all other optical sales categories also decreased last month when compared with the previous month, at a rate of -12 index points for exams/refractions, -15 index points for frame units and lens pairs and -6 index points for contact lenses. When comparing last month’s optical sales with the same period last year, all of the other categories decreased as well, at a rate of -10 index points for exams/refractions, -13 index points for frame units, -14 index points for lens pairs and -12 index points for contact lenses.
With all optical sales categories decreasing last month, four categories still reached a level above an average month in 2019—the index baseline assigned a value of 100 for this Optical Business Tracker. These ranged from a high of 136 index points for gross revenue to a low of 96 index points for contact lenses. The other categories reached 106 index points for exams/refractions, 101 index points for frame units and 107 index points for lens pairs.
Jobson Optical Research selected 1,500 optical locations that have been operating and reporting their sales to its partners, GPN and ABB Analyze, since 2019. The index has been rebased to an average month in 2019. Going forward, this new index base will be used as an arbitrary benchmark and assigned a value of 100.
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