Series LLC Formation Fees by State
What each state charges to form a series of a domestic LLC, where that state's law provides for one — the state filing fee only, across all 51 U.S. jurisdictions. Not a recommendation to form a series LLC or to choose a jurisdiction.
| State | Series Fee |
|---|---|
| AKchecked 2026-10-01 | No series-specific feeNo series LLC authority and no series specific fee row. |
| ALchecked 2026-10-01 | No series-specific feeNo series-specific fee exists. Alabama authorizes series LLCs (Article 11, SS 10A-5A-11.01 to 11.04) but creates NO separate state filing to establish a series: the liability-limitation statement is instead one optional item, Section 10A-5A-2.01(a)(5), within the SAME certificate of formation filed under the general $200 formation fee (or, if added to an existing LLC, within a $100 certificate of amendment) -- both under Section 10A-1-4.31(a)(1)a./b. Neither the $200 nor the $100 is a series-specific amount; they are the base formation/amendment fees whether or not the series statement is included. |
| ARchecked 2026-10-01 | $50.00 domestic series/protected-series application; $300.00 foreign series/protected-series application |
| AZchecked 2026-10-01 | No series-specific feeArizona Title 29 (ARS 29-3102(8),(24); 29-3902; 29-3903(B); 29-3904; 29-3910) defines "foreign series" and "registered foreign series" and gives a foreign series its own registration-statement content requirements, but the sections fetched for this state (including the Title 29 chapter index) contain no domestic protected-series/registered-series formation or designation article -- Arizona does not authorize forming a new series LLC domestically. The ACC fee schedule's "Foreign Registration Statement" fee ($150.00 regular / $185.00 expedited) is one fee shared by an ordinary foreign LLC (29-3903(A)) and a foreign series (29-3903(B)); its own "Statement of Withdrawal of Foreign LLC or Foreign Series Registration" row ($10.00 regular / $45.00 expedited) is likewise one shared amount, not a distinct series-only price. No fee schedule row, form, or statute ties a dollar figure uniquely to the foreign-series instrument. |
| CAchecked 2026-10-01 | No series-specific feeCalifornia Corporations Code Title 2.6 (California Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act, sections 17701.01-17713.13, including the definitions, membership, management, transfer, and charging-order sections checked in this packet) and the California Secretary of State domestic/foreign LLC forms, fee schedule, and LLC-1/LLC-5 PDFs did not locate protected-series or registered-series LLC authority or a series-specific form/fee row. California does not authorize formation of a domestic series LLC; the Secretary of State forms are ordinary (non-series) LLC forms only. |
| COchecked 2026-10-01 | No series-specific feeNo series specific fee row. |
| CTchecked 2026-10-01 | No series-specific feeConnecticut Chapter 613a has foreign-series liability and transferable-interest series references, but the cited official Business.CT domestic LLC fee surfaces contain no domestic protected-series, registered-series, or per-series LLC fee row. |
| DCchecked 2026-10-01 | Unknown |
| DEchecked 2026-10-01 | $70 filing fee for a certificate of registered series under 6 Del. C. section 18-218; a protected series under section 18-215(b) requires no separate state filing or fee (it is established by a statement in the certificate of formation, covered by the base $70 formation fee or, if added later, the $180 amendment fee) |
| FLchecked 2026-10-01 | Unknown |
| GAchecked 2026-10-01 | No series-specific feeNo series specific fee row. |
| HIchecked 2026-10-01 | No series-specific feeNo series specific fee row. |
| IAchecked 2026-10-01 | $5, via Iowa Code 489.122(1)(y) ('Any other document required or permitted to be filed by this chapter'), the chapter's closed-universe residual fee item -- no named line item in 489.122 mentions 'series' or 'protected series designation' specifically |
| IDchecked 2026-10-01 | No series-specific feeIdaho Code Title 30, Chapter 25 (Idaho Uniform Limited Liability Company Act), Parts 1-8, contains no protected-series, registered-series, or series-LLC provision of any kind; zero occurrences of the word 'series' anywhere in the chapter. |
| ILchecked 2026-10-01 | $50 |
| INchecked 2026-10-01 | $20 for an electronic filing of articles of designation; $30 for a non-electronic filing, under IC 23-0.5-9-25 |
| KSchecked 2026-10-01 | $35 |
| KYchecked 2026-09-30 | No series-specific feeNo series specific fee row. |
| LAchecked 2026-09-30 | No series-specific feeNo series specific fee row. |
| MAchecked 2026-10-01 | No series-specific feeMassachusetts General Laws Chapter 156C (the whole LLC Act: definitions, name, powers, certificate of organization, member admission, member/manager rights, management, manager designation, assignment of interest, charging order, membership of assignee) and the Secretary of the Commonwealth's Corporations Division fee schedule did not locate protected-series or registered-series LLC authority or a series-specific form/fee row. The only 'series' hits in the entire MA source set are in Chapter 156D (the business CORPORATION act), referring to classes or series of corporate SHARES -- unrelated to series LLCs. |
| MDchecked 2026-10-01 | No series-specific feeMaryland Title 4A defines series company as a foreign limited liability company established under another jurisdiction series statute; no Maryland domestic protected-series formation fee row was located. |
| MEchecked 2026-10-01 | No series-specific feeNo series specific fee row. |
| MIchecked 2026-10-01 | No series-specific feeNo series specific fee row. |
| MNchecked 2026-10-01 | No series-specific feeNo series or protected-series fee exists. Minnesota's Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act (Chapter 322C, sections 322C.0101-322C.1205) contains no series, protected-series, or registered-series provision anywhere in its ten named articles (General Provisions; Relations of Members, Managers, and Governors to Persons Dealing with Limited Liability Company; Transferable Interests and Rights of Transferees and Creditors; Member's Dissociation; Dissolution and Winding Up; Foreign Limited Liability Companies; Actions by Members; Merger, Conversion, and Domestication; Nonprofit Limited Liability Companies; Miscellaneous Provisions) -- there is no series-specific filing instrument to attach a fee to. The Secretary of State business filing fee schedule and the LLC/LP forms pages likewise list no series-specific row. |
| MOchecked 2026-09-30 | No series-specific feeForeign LLC series attachment also listed without a separate fee row. |
| MSchecked 2026-10-01 | No series-specific feeNo protected/designated-series authority or series-specific filing instrument was found in the inspected MS LLC sources; ordinary class/series-of-interests language is not treated as protected-series authority. |
| MTchecked 2026-10-01 | $50.00 for each series member named in the series LLC, plus the listed filing base fee |
| NCchecked 2026-10-01 | No series-specific feeNC Chapter 57D and NC SOS LLC forms/fees checked in the discovery packet did not locate protected-series or registered-series LLC authority or a series-specific form/fee row. |
| NDchecked 2026-10-01 | No series-specific feeNDCC 10-32.1-102 (the true series-LLC provision -- 'Series of members, managers, transferable interests or assets') is established purely by the operating agreement under subsection 1, with no Secretary of State filing or fee stated anywhere in its 14 subsections. The $50 fee at NDCC 10-32.1-92(16) prices a textually distinct instrument: 'a resolution for the establishment of a class or series of membership interests,' which is the statute's own defined term ('48. "Series" means a category of membership interests, within a class of membership interests...') and the economic/governance-rights mechanism under 10-32.1-21(1)(a) (amending articles to fix rights/preferences of a class or series of membership interests). That is a share-class provision, the same kind the sealed MA and WI cells correctly exclude as unrelated to series-LLC authority -- it does not attach to a 10-32.1-102 series. |
| NEchecked 2026-10-01 | $110 written / $100 electronic per protected-series designation or statement of designation; Secretary of State table lists $110 per entity established |
| NHchecked 2026-10-01 | No series-specific feeRSA 304-C:54 authorizes an operating agreement to create classes or groups of members with differing rights, powers, and duties; this is an internal-governance class provision, not a statutory protected-series or registered-series LLC filing regime. RSA 304-D (professional LLCs) contains no series provision at all. |
| NJchecked 2026-10-01 | No series-specific feeThe official New Jersey Title 42:2C series-term query returned hitCount 0 / No Documents Found, and the Treasury fee surfaces checked list ordinary LLC filing rows without a series-specific filing or fee row. |
| NMchecked 2026-10-01 | No series-specific feeNo series or protected-series fee exists. New Mexico's Limited Liability Company Act (NMSA 1978 Chapter 53, Article 19, sections 53-19-1 through 53-19-63, PDF pages 385-448 of the official Chapter 53 compilation) contains zero occurrences of the word 'series' anywhere in the article -- confirmed by a full-text scan of every one of its 64 pages -- and the article's own complete filing-fee statute (53-19-63, items A through M) lists 13 specific fees (articles of organization $50, merger/conversion $100, dissolution $25, foreign registration $100, etc.) with no series-specific item. The New Mexico SOS business-services, user-guides and statutes-governing-business pages likewise contain no series-specific row. |
| NVchecked 2026-09-30 | No series-specific feeNevada authorizes a series to be created as a limited-liability company without filing articles of organization with the Secretary of State. |
| NYchecked 2026-09-30 | No series-specific feeNo series specific fee row. |
| OHchecked 2026-09-30 | No series-specific feeNo separate series fee row. |
| OKchecked 2026-10-01 | $100 to file Articles of Registered Series (18 O.S. section 2055(3), filing articles of registered series; confirmed on the official SOS form FM0074RS as 'Filing Fee: $100.00'); a $25/year annual certificate fee (section 2055.2) and a $40/year registered-agent fee (section 2055(13)) also apply to a registered series as ongoing obligations, not formation fees. |
| ORchecked 2026-10-01 | No series-specific feeNot applicable -- Oregon does not authorize protected or registered series for domestic or foreign limited liability companies; no series-specific filing or fee exists under ORS chapter 63 (sections 63.001-63.992, full chapter, zero occurrences of "series") or the Secretary of State's Business Registry Fee Schedule. |
| PAchecked 2026-09-30 | No series-specific feeNo protected-series, registered-series, or per-series LLC fee row was exposed in the captured Pennsylvania Department of State fee schedule. |
| RIchecked 2026-10-01 | No series-specific feeNot applicable -- Rhode Island does not authorize protected or registered series for domestic or foreign limited liability companies; no series-specific filing or fee exists under R.I. Gen. Laws Chapter 7-16 (sections 7-16-1 through 7-16-77, full chapter index, no series article) or the Secretary of State's Document Library fee rows for LLC filings. |
| SCchecked 2026-10-01 | No series-specific feeNot applicable -- South Carolina does not authorize protected or registered series for domestic or foreign limited liability companies; no series-specific filing or fee exists under S.C. Code Ann. Title 33, Chapter 44 (the Uniform Limited Liability Company Act of 1996, full chapter, zero occurrences of "series") or the Secretary of State's downloadable-forms fee schedule. |
| SDchecked 2026-10-01 | $200.00 domestic LLC articles of organization containing a series-authorization notice; $800.00 foreign LLC application for certificate of authority for a series or series-authorized foreign LLC |
| TNchecked 2026-10-01 | No series-specific feeNo series-specific fee exists. A Tennessee Series LLC is formed on the SAME Articles of Organization (form SS-4270) as any other LLC; the only series-specific step is checking the 'Series LLC' box and certifying compliance with T.C.A. section 48-249-309(a) and (b). The filing fee is the ordinary per-member Articles of Organization fee under T.C.A. section 48-249-1007(d): $50.00 per member, minimum $300.00, maximum $3,000.00 -- identical whether or not the series box is checked. |
| TXchecked 2026-09-30 | $300 |
| UTchecked 2026-10-01 | $59.00 |
| VAchecked 2026-09-30 | $100 |
| VTchecked 2026-10-01 | No series-specific feeNo series specific fee row. |
| WAchecked 2026-10-01 | No series-specific feeNo series-specific fee exists because Washington does not authorize series LLCs at all. The complete table of contents for RCW Chapter 25.15 (the Washington Limited Liability Company Act) contains zero occurrences of the word 'series' anywhere in its section headings, and the Washington Secretary of State's fee-schedule page contains zero occurrences of 'series' as well. |
| WIchecked 2026-10-01 | No series-specific feeNo series specific fee row. |
| WVchecked 2026-10-01 | Unknown |
| WYchecked 2026-10-01 | $10.00 per series |
Field definitions
- Series Fee
- The state filing fee to form a series of a domestic LLC under the state's LLC act, where that state's law provides for series formation. 'No series-specific fee' means the checked official sources list no fee specific to a series; the note under each row gives that row's reason, which for some states is that the LLC act has no series provisions. Unknown means series are authorized but no official source checked states a dollar fee.
Field definitions are listed below the table. Hover a cell for its source note. Typed unknowns (e.g., “Portal not observable”) are methodological limits, not data gaps.
What this matrix covers
This REFERENCE surface reports the state filing fee to form a series of a domestic LLC, cited to each jurisdiction's official fee schedule or LLC act. Fees are the state filing fee only and exclude any registered-agent or service fee. "No series-specific fee" means the checked official sources list no fee specific to a series; the note under each row gives that row's reason, which for some states is that the LLC act has no series provisions. Where series are authorized but no official source states a dollar fee, the row carries the Unknown badge. It is not a recommendation to form a series LLC or to choose a jurisdiction.
How to read this matrix
Each row is a U.S. jurisdiction (50 states plus the District of Columbia). The fee shown is the state filing fee to form a series of a domestic LLC, where that state's law provides for one; it excludes any registered-agent or service fee. “No series-specific fee” means the checked official sources list no fee specific to a series; the note under each such row gives that row's reason, which for some states is that the LLC act has no series provisions. A typed unknown (shown as “Unknown”) means a state's statute confirms series are authorized but no official source checked states a dollar filing fee for it — a methodological limit, not a confirmed absence of a fee. Every figure is cited to the state's official source linked on each row. States can revise fees at any time — confirm against the linked source before filing. Method notes live at /about/methodology/.
Sources
Per-row primary-source citations live in the matrix's sources.json companion. The full source taxonomy lives at /about/source-registry/.
Not legal advice
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Frequently asked questions
What does the series LLC fee cover?
This matrix tracks the one-time state filing fee to form a series of a domestic LLC, where the state's LLC act provides for series formation. It does not include any registered-agent, publication, or ongoing annual-report fee, which are separate. For the base LLC formation fee itself, see /business-formation/domestic-llc-formation-fees-by-state/.
Why do some rows show "No series-specific fee" instead of a dollar amount?
The checked official fee sources list no fee specific to a series for that state. The note under each such row gives that state's own reason — for some states that is because the LLC act has no series provisions at all; for others a series exists but no separate fee line was found for it. See /business-formation/series-llc-explainer/ for which states authorize domestic series LLC formation.
Why do three states show "Unknown" instead of a fee?
District of Columbia, Florida, and West Virginia authorize series LLC formation, but no official fee schedule or statutory instrument checked for this matrix states a specific dollar amount for the series-designation filing itself. That is a methodological limit, not a confirmed absence of a fee.
Are these fees current?
Each row links to the state's official source and is cited to that primary document; where a snapshot was captured, the figure is also verified against it. States can revise fees at any time — confirm against the linked source before filing.