The LLC data desk
State LLC fee data, kept on file
Official LLC fees, report deadlines and agent rules for each state sit here beside their sources. States are ranked on cost, and every state file closes with the services we would pick, their fees and their renewal terms.
The desk in numbers
- States on file
- 50Three files each
- Smallest three-year state total
- $50Arizona and others
- Largest three-year state total
- $2,490California
Ten states where three years of fees total least
| Rank | State | Three-year state fees |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | Arizona | $50 |
| 1st | Mississippi | $50 |
| 1st | Missouri | $50 |
| 1st | New Mexico | $50 |
| 5th | Montana | $75 |
| 6th | Hawaii | $76 |
| 7th | Iowa | $80 |
| 8th | Utah | $95 |
| 9th | Ohio | $99 |
| 10th | Colorado | $100 |
Methodology
How services are ranked
- Service bill over three years (31%): What a service charges above the state fee in years one, two and three, from the first-year and renewal prices it publishes.
- Scope of the price (29%): How much of the state's recurring work the price takes in: the registered agent, the periodic report and the EIN application.
- Renewal step (16%): The gap, if any, between the first-year price and the price from year two.
- State rule match (13%): How well the plan matches the state's report cycle, late penalties and registered office rules.
- Fee transparency (11%): Whether the state fee is itemized apart and passed through unchanged.
Three files for each state
- 1
LLC cost guides
Fee to file, recurring report, late penalty, three-year total and rank of 50, plus a calculator and our service picks.
LLC costs by state - 2
Registered agent guides
Who may serve, address rules and yearly state fees, with the agents we pick.
Registered agent rules by state - 3
Foreign LLC guides
Fee to register, the form, the home-state certificate and the cost of skipping registration.
Foreign LLC fees by state
National picks
- 1
LLC Services
Mainstay Filing
- 2
Registered Agents
Mainstay Filing
- 3
Foreign Registration Services
Mainstay Filing
All fifty files
- South Carolina
- North Carolina
- West Virginia
- New Hampshire
- Massachusetts
- South Dakota
- Rhode Island
- Pennsylvania
- North Dakota
- Mississippi
- Connecticut
- Washington
- New Mexico
- New Jersey
- California
- Wisconsin
- Tennessee
- Minnesota
- Louisiana
- Virginia
- Oklahoma
- New York
- Nebraska
- Missouri
- Michigan
- Maryland
- Kentucky
- Illinois
- Delaware
- Colorado
- Arkansas
- Wyoming
- Vermont
- Montana
- Indiana
- Georgia
- Florida
- Arizona
- Alabama
- Oregon
- Nevada
- Kansas
- Hawaii
- Alaska
- Texas
- Maine
- Idaho
- Utah
- Ohio
- Iowa