LLC Amendment Fees by State — Explainer

What an amendment is, what it actually costs, and the domestic-LLC filing fee in every U.S. jurisdiction — in one place. For the definition on its own, see What is an LLC amendment?; for the structured matrix with per-row sources, see Amendment Fees by State. Fees as of 2026-06-07. Not legal advice.

Short answer

An amendment changes information in the document that created your LLC — most often the name. You file articles (or a certificate) of amendment with the state, pay one filing fee, and the change takes effect when the state accepts it. The fee is small relative to almost everything else about running the company: in 50 of the 51 jurisdictions we could source, it runs from $15 to $220, and most states sit between $25 and $100. The thing worth getting right is not the price — it's filing the correct document, as the correct entity type, in the correct state.

What you actually pay

The number below is the state filing fee for the amendment itself — nothing bundled in. Montana is the floor at $15. Delaware and the District of Columbia tie at the top, $220 each, with Texas next at $150. Nevada is the one state that doesn't quote a flat number: its fee is value-based and starts at a $175 minimum. Everywhere else is a fixed amount, and the clustering between $25 and $100 means the fee is rarely the thing worth optimizing — the filing being correct is.

The trap: whose fee is that, exactly?

The single most common way to get this number wrong is to read the right state's schedule and the wrong line. A state fee table typically lists corporations, LLCs, limited partnerships, and foreign registrants together, and the amendment fee can differ across them. The “amendment fee” on a generic chart is often the corporation figure, or the foreign-LLC figure — either of which can sit a few dollars or a few hundred from the domestic-LLC one.

Connecticut charges $120 for the domestic-LLC amendment; a corporation there files under a separate fee. Delaware charges $220 for a domestic-LLC amendment but $200 for a foreign one — close enough to look like a rounding difference, far enough to be the wrong filing. Every row in the table here is the domestic-LLC line, read off the state's own schedule and bound to that entity type specifically.

When the fee depends on how you file

A few states price the same amendment two ways, by method. Indiana is the cleanest example: $20 if you file electronically, $30 if you file on paper. It is the same certificate of amendment — the extra $10 is what the state charges for the privilege of mailing it in. We publish the standard paper figure in the table and note the electronic discount in the row, because that is the number most people are quoted; but where a cheaper electronic path exists, it is usually worth taking. The general lesson is the useful one: a posted fee is sometimes a default rather than a fixed cost. Read the filing options before you assume the number is the number.

Amendment filing fee by state (domestic LLC)

The one blank is deliberate

South Carolina is the lone “not established” row: it does not publish a domestic-LLC amendment fee we could confirm against a primary state source. Rather than copy a number from a third-party chart and pass it off as verified, we leave the cell blank. A blank is not $0, and it is not an oversight — it is the absence of a primary source we were willing to stand behind. Confirm South Carolina directly with the state before filing. (The same discipline is why the other fifty rows carry a number — each cited to a source you can open and check, with the three we treat as provisional flagged below.)

How these numbers are sourced

Most fees here are read off the state's own published fee schedule or filing form and backed by a captured snapshot of that source, so the row can be re-checked rather than taken on faith. Where a state lists fees by entity type, we bind to the domestic-LLC line — not the corporation line that happens to sit next to it, and not last year's figure. Utah is a small case study in why that matters: its schedule files an LLC amendment as a flat $17 “change,” and the tidy-looking $43 that circulates elsewhere is not on the current state schedule at all.

Three rows are honest exceptions. Alaska, Idaho, and Rhode Island carry a best-available number — $25, $30, and $50 — that we have not yet pinned to a clean primary line: Alaska's fee table doesn't break out the amendment row, Rhode Island's captured form doesn't print the fee, and Idaho's figure currently rests on a secondary host (a FindLaw copy of the statute) rather than the state's own page. We show the value and say so, rather than dress it up as confirmed — treat those three as provisional and verify at the source before you rely on them. Full method at /about/methodology/; the source taxonomy at /about/source-registry/.

What this page does not tell you

• Whether your new name is available, or meets the state's naming rules — check before you file.
• Expedite, certified-copy, or same-day surcharges, which are separate and change often.
• Whether your change needs more than an amendment — a registered-agent change or a move to another state is a different filing.
• Anything about your operating agreement, which is internal and not filed with the state.

Not legal advice

Fees, forms, and which document applies are state-specific and change. This page is structured reference, not counsel. Confirm against the linked state source before filing.

See also: What is an LLC amendment? · Amendment Fees by State (matrix) · Article Amendment Fees by State — Explainer