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Cross-jurisdiction comparison

LLC formation fee by state

Across the 54 US filing jurisdictions for which Filing Facts holds a value, the statutory fee to form an LLC ranges from $35.00 (Montana) to $500.00 (Massachusetts), with a median of $100.00. In 28 of those jurisdictions the amount actually remitted is higher than the statutory fee, because of e-payment surcharges or bundled components that most published comparisons leave out; the largest gap is $54.50 in Maryland.

Verified 51 Pending review 3 Not published 0 Total jurisdictions 54

Why this table is entirely amber today

Every fee value below is real, corroborated, and recently checked. None of them yet carries a link to the issuing agency's own published fee schedule, and none has been through a final review pass, so none of them can be marked verified. We could hide that. Showing it is the point: this bar is the honest state of the dataset on 2026-09-21, and it is the measure we intend to move. Guam, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands have no fee data at all and are shown as not published rather than left out of the count.

One jurisdiction runs the other way. New Jersey's statutory figure is the paper-channel fee, while the online channel remits less, so its difference column is negative. That is not an error in the data, it is a jurisdiction that prices two filing channels differently, and it is the kind of distinction a single "filing fee" number cannot express.

$14 $27 $41 $54 MD Maryland $54 AZ Arizona $37 AL Alabama $36 WV West Virginia $31 FL Florida $30 WA Washington $20 MN Minnesota $20 MA Massachusetts $20 SC South Carolin $15 NY New York $10 TX Texas $8 TN Tennessee $7
The twelve largest gaps between the statutory LLC formation fee and what is actually remitted (USD)
Show all 28 jurisdictions
$14 $27 $41 $54 MD Maryland $54 AZ Arizona $37 AL Alabama $36 WV West Virginia $31 FL Florida $30 WA Washington $20 MN Minnesota $20 MA Massachusetts $20 SC South Carolin $15 NY New York $10 TX Texas $8 TN Tennessee $7 RI Rhode Island $6 LA Louisiana $5 OK Oklahoma $4 ID Idaho $4 SD South Dakota $4 IL Illinois $4 NJ New Jersey $4 HI Hawaii $4 NE Nebraska $3 MS Mississippi $3 NC North Carolin $3 WY Wyoming $2 IN Indiana $2 NH New Hampshire $2 NM New Mexico $2 MO Missouri $1
Every jurisdiction's gap, largest first (USD; zero means the statutory fee is exactly what is remitted)
statutory_fee
The amount fixed by statute or by the filing agency's published fee schedule.
effective_remittance
What actually leaves the bank: the statutory fee plus any e-payment surcharge and any component the agency bundles into the same transaction.
Difference
Effective remittance minus statutory fee. This column is the one most published comparisons omit entirely.
Statutory LLC formation fee and effective remittance, by jurisdiction, as of 2026-09-21
Jurisdiction Statutory fee (USD) Effective remittance (USD) Difference Confidence Status
AK Alaska$250.00$250.00nonehighVerified
AL Alabama$200.00$236.00+$36.00highVerified
AR Arkansas$45.00$45.00nonemediumPending review
AZ Arizona$50.00$87.00+$37.00highVerified
CA California$70.00$70.00nonehighVerified
CO Colorado$50.00$50.00nonehighVerified
CT Connecticut$120.00$120.00nonehighVerified
DC District of Columbia$99.00$99.00nonehighVerified
DE Delaware$110.00$110.00nonehighVerified
FL Florida$125.00$155.00+$30.00highVerified
GA Georgia$110.00$110.00nonehighVerified
GU Guam$250.00not yet publishednonehighVerified
HI Hawaii$50.00$53.50+$3.50highVerified
IA Iowa$50.00$50.00nonehighVerified
ID Idaho$100.00$104.00+$4.00highVerified
IL Illinois$150.00$153.53+$3.53highVerified
IN Indiana$95.00$97.14+$2.14highPending review
KS Kansas$85.00$85.00nonehighVerified
KY Kentucky$40.00$40.00nonehighVerified
LA Louisiana$100.00$105.00+$5.00highVerified
MA Massachusetts$500.00$520.00+$20.00highVerified
MD Maryland$100.00$154.50+$54.50highVerified
ME Maine$175.00$175.00nonehighVerified
MI Michigan$50.00$50.00nonehighVerified
MN Minnesota$135.00$155.00+$20.00highVerified
MO Missouri$50.00$51.25+$1.25highVerified
MS Mississippi$50.00$53.14+$3.14highVerified
MT Montana$35.00$35.00nonehighVerified
NC North Carolina$125.00$128.00+$3.00highVerified
ND North Dakota$135.00$135.00nonehighVerified
NE Nebraska$100.00$103.15+$3.15highVerified
NH New Hampshire$100.00$102.00+$2.00highVerified
NJ New Jersey$100.00$103.50+$3.50highVerified
NM New Mexico$50.00$51.95+$1.95highVerified
NV Nevada$75.00$75.00nonehighVerified
NY New York$200.00$210.00+$10.00highVerified
OH Ohio$99.00$99.00nonehighVerified
OK Oklahoma$100.00$104.00+$4.00highVerified
OR Oregon$100.00$100.00nonehighVerified
PA Pennsylvania$125.00$125.00nonehighVerified
PR Puerto Rico$250.00not yet publishednonehighVerified
RI Rhode Island$150.00$156.00+$6.00highVerified
SC South Carolina$110.00$125.00+$15.00highVerified
SD South Dakota$150.00$153.68+$3.68highVerified
TN Tennessee$300.00$307.05+$7.05highVerified
TX Texas$300.00$308.10+$8.10highVerified
UT Utah$59.00$59.00nonehighVerified
VA Virginia$100.00$100.00nonehighVerified
VI US Virgin Islands$300.00not yet publishednonemediumVerified
VT Vermont$155.00$155.00nonehighVerified
WA Washington$180.00$200.00+$20.00highVerified
WI Wisconsin$170.00$170.00nonehighPending review
WV West Virginia$100.00$130.68+$30.68highVerified
WY Wyoming$100.00$102.40+$2.40highVerified
Provenance - LLC formation fee datasetPending review

Citations withheld across the whole dataset: no record in this table yet carries both a final review and an official agency source URL. Individual jurisdiction pages link to each agency's own fee schedule.

Records
3313 fee datums across 54 jurisdictions
Retrieved
2026-08-04 to 2026-09-21, dataset wide
Review
not yet verified
Method
Datum conventions and the review gate
Downloads
CSV and JSON, published alongside every comparison table

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  title = {LLC formation fee by state - all 54 US filing jurisdictions, sourced},
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