How Much Does a Pennsylvania LLC Cost in 2026?

Pennsylvania LLC one-time costs

What Pennsylvania charges once, when the LLC is formed, and the optional costs that arrive at the same time. The state fee is the same whether you file yourself or use a service.

State fees verified October 2026 and set by the state, not by us. Online filing prices; a few states charge a different amount on paper.

Pennsylvania LLC ongoing costs

What Pennsylvania charges to keep the LLC in good standing, when it is due, and what the state does when a report is late or missed.

State fees verified October 2026 and set by the state, not by us. Due rules, penalties and dissolution triggers are read from each state's statute or filing office page; the reinstatement figure is the state's own total at that point.

Pennsylvania LLC annual fee

Pennsylvania's recurring requirement: $7/year, due September 30 (new annual report as of 2025; enforcement from 2027). Pennsylvania calls the filing the Annual Report, and it goes to the Pennsylvania Department of State at file.dos.pa.gov. The Annual Report is due September 30, every year. In the state's words: September 30 (new annual report as of 2025; enforcement from 2027).

If you file late: No flat late fee published; a missed report still risks loss of good standing. Pennsylvania does not dissolve an LLC for a missed report; it marks the company past due, which blocks a certificate of good standing until the report is filed.

The due date, filing window and portal are covered step by step in Pennsylvania LLC annual report.

Other recurring obligations

• Annual report. Jan 1 - Sept 30 each year, first due the year after formation; reports due in 2027 onward are enforced (administrative dissolution six months after due date). $7.
• Certificate of Annual Registration (restricted professional companies only). April 15 of the following year. set by the state.

Pennsylvania LLC filing fee: $125

The filing fee is what Pennsylvania charges to file your Certificate of Organization, the document that creates the company. Pennsylvania charges $125. It is the one cost nobody can avoid: it is the same whether you file directly with the state or hire a service, and no legitimate service can waive it. Which form Pennsylvania uses, where it is filed and what it asks: how to register an LLC in Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania posts its current processing times on its own site; we do not quote one.

Faster review from the state: $100 same-day (received by 10 a.m.), $300 3-hour, $1,000 1-hour; not available by mail.

By filing fee, Pennsylvania ranks 34 of 51 jurisdictions, cheapest first; the median state charges $100.

Five-year Pennsylvania LLC cost: $160

$125 to form, plus $7 a year in report fees for five years, comes to $160 paid to Pennsylvania over five years, assuming every report is filed on time. Taxes on the company's income, licenses and a registered agent service are separate.

What the Pennsylvania state fee does not include

The filing fee buys the state's approval of the Certificate of Organization and nothing else. These are the costs that sit outside it.

• Registered agent. Pennsylvania requires one, with a street address in the state. Serving as your own agent is free; the address becomes public record. Our registered agent service can be added in the application. Pennsylvania registered agent requirements.
• Operating agreement. Not filed with the state and free if you write it yourself. Our self-help template is available after checkout.
• Business licenses and permits. Set by the city, county or licensing board for your line of business, not by the formation filing. Many Pennsylvania LLCs need none; a restaurant, contractor or salon usually needs several.
• Taxes. An LLC's income is taxed through its owners' returns unless it elects otherwise, and sales tax or employer registrations are separate state accounts with no formation fee attached.
• Filing service. Our fee is itemized on the checkout review screen before you pay, with same-day submission as an option. The state fee is identical either way.

How to pay less for a Pennsylvania LLC

• File the Certificate of Organization yourself. Pennsylvania takes it online at file.dos.pa.gov for the $125 state fee alone.
• Be your own registered agent if you have a Pennsylvania street address and are there during business hours. The trade-off is privacy: the address goes on the public record.
• Write your own operating agreement. No state charges for it and Pennsylvania does not file it.
• File the Annual Report on time. Pennsylvania charges no late fee, but a missed report still leads to loss of good standing.
• Skip state expedite unless a date depends on it. The state's standard queue costs nothing extra.
• Form where you do business. An LLC that operates in Pennsylvania but is formed elsewhere must register in Pennsylvania as a foreign LLC anyway, paying Pennsylvania's registration fee and its recurring report on top of the home state's.

How Pennsylvania compares

By filing fee, Pennsylvania is number 34 of 51 jurisdictions, cheapest first. The filing fee is paid once; the recurring line is what separates states over time.

State fees verified October 2026 and set by the state, not by us.

Every state's fee is in LLC cost by state, and the case for and against forming elsewhere is in cheapest states to form an LLC.

Filing yourself vs. using us

Filing directly with Pennsylvania costs only the state's own fee: $125. The state takes formations at file.dos.pa.gov. Through us, you pay our service fee plus the Pennsylvania filing & processing, for the name check, the Certificate of Organization prepared and submitted, the approved documents emailed to you and Pennsylvania's deadlines in writing. Both lines are itemized on the checkout review screen before you pay.

Sources

State fees verified October 2026; page last updated November 1, 2026. The figures above are read from Pennsylvania's own fee schedule, forms and statutes:

• pa.gov (pa.gov/content/dam/copapwp-pagov/en/dos/programs/business/forms/offsite-forms/15...)
• pa.gov (pa.gov/content/dam/copapwp-pagov/en/dos/resources/business/forms/15-134A%20Docke...)
• pa.gov (pa.gov/agencies/dos/programs/business/fees-and-payments)
• pa.gov (pa.gov/agencies/dos/programs/business/information-services/expedited-services)
• pa.gov (pa.gov/agencies/dos/programs/business/types-of-filings-and-registrations/annual-...)
• pa.gov (pa.gov/agencies/dos/programs/business/types-of-filings-and-registrations/pennsyl...)
• hub.business.pa.gov (hub.business.pa.gov/Home/HelpCenterDetail/RegisteraPADomesticLLC)
• file.dos.pa.gov (Pennsylvania Department of State, Annual Report filing)