The full Nevada LLC cost table
| Cost | Amount | Required? |
|---|---|---|
| Nevada state filing fee | $425 one-time | Yes |
| Recurring state cost | $350/yr — Annual List + State Business License | Yes |
| Registered agent | $0 as your own agent, or ~$125/yr for a service | Yes (one or the other) |
| EIN (federal tax ID) | $0 direct from the IRS | Usually |
| First-year total | $775 as your own agent · $900 with a service | — |
| Five-year total | $2,175 as your own agent · $2,800 with a service | — |
Two stacked charges: $150 annual list + $200 state business license = $350/yr. The $425 filing total likewise bundles articles $75 + initial list $150 + license $200.
Why the $75 filing fee is really $425
Nevada's LLC fee schedule lists the Articles of Organization at $75, and that is the number the cheapest guides quote. But the formation packet itself says it in capitals: an initial list of officers must accompany this filing. The Initial List of Managers or Members is $150, and since 2009 the State Business License — $200 a year for every entity type except corporations, which pay $500 — is applied for on the same form and must be paid with it. The Secretary of State's own FAQ answers the obvious question directly: no, the list and the licence cannot be filed separately. So the cheque that actually forms a Nevada LLC is $75 + $150 + $200 = $425, which is what our calculator uses, and it is the fourth-highest formation cost in the country. Filing online is immediate and carries no processing fee; mailed filings paid by card add 2.5%.
$350 a year, due by the last day of your anniversary month
Every year after, the Annual List ($150) and the State Business License renewal ($200) fall due together on the last day of the month in which the LLC was formed — the Initial List is due by the last day of the month following formation. Nevada has no personal or corporate income tax, so for most LLCs this $350 is the whole recurring state cost; the Commerce Tax applies only to businesses with more than $4 million of Nevada gross revenue. What makes Nevada unusual is how the state treats lateness. A list is late unless it is physically in the Secretary of State's care, custody and control by close of business on the due date — postmarks are not accepted — and a late list carries a $75 penalty while a late licence carries a separate $100 penalty. Miss the date by a day and $350 becomes $525. After a year in default the LLC is revoked, and reinstatement is $300 plus every back fee and penalty, licence included. Delaware, by comparison, charges $400 a year with no list; Wyoming $60. The privacy that Nevada sells for $350 — members off the public record — is the same privacy Wyoming sells for $60, and the Annual List still names your managers or managing members.
Every other Nevada LLC fee, from the Secretary of State's schedule
Nevada folds its LLC fee schedule into the back of the formation packet, and the schedule is one of the more complete in the country. These are the LLC lines, checked September 12, 2026 against the Secretary of State's LLC packet and the State Business License FAQ. One timing note: on September 14, 2026 the state retired SilverFlume and moved every business filing to its new ORION portal; existing logins and history carried over, and 1- and 2-hour expedites resume September 21.
| Filing | Fee | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Articles of Organization | $75 | Cannot be filed without the two lines below |
| Initial List of Managers or Members | $150 | Due with the Articles; then by the last day of the month after formation at the latest |
| State Business License | $200 | Annual; $500 for corporations; applied for on the list form |
| Annual List of Managers or Members | $150 | Last day of the anniversary month, together with the licence renewal |
| Late Annual List | $75 penalty | Postmark not accepted — must be received by the due date |
| Late State Business License | $100 penalty | On top of the list penalty: $525 total when both are late |
| Reinstatement after revocation | $300 | Plus all back lists, licences and penalties |
| Change of registered agent by the LLC | $60 | Statement of Change of Registered Agent by Represented Entity |
| Certificate of Amendment / Restated Articles / Correction | $175 | Each |
| Dissolution of a domestic LLC | $100 | Required to stop the annual list and licence — the state will not accept a letter |
| Foreign LLC registration | $75 | Plus the same $150 list and $200 licence |
| Name reservation | $25 | |
| Certificate of good standing | $50 | |
| Certified copy | $30 certification + $2/page | First file-stamped copy free at filing |
| 24-hour expedite | $125 | $25 on agent-change filings; $50 on name reservations |
| 2-hour / 1-hour expedite | $500 / $1,000 | Per filing, on top of the fee |
Two lines deserve attention. The $60 change of registered agent is on the high side — Wyoming charges $5, Florida $25 — so choose the agent carefully at formation. And the $100 dissolution is not optional bureaucracy: the FAQ is explicit that a Title 7 entity must file dissolution documents to stop the annual fees, that no part of a licence fee is refunded, and that the Secretary of State does not tell the Department of Taxation you have closed. An LLC that simply stops filing goes into default, then revocation, and the $350 keeps accruing with penalties until someone files the $100 form or pays $300 to bring it back. Our dissolution guide covers the sequence.
The exemption that doesn't apply to you
Nevada's licence law exempts a natural person who runs a business from home and earns no more than two-thirds of the state's average annual wage from it. Founders read that and assume a small home-based LLC qualifies. It does not: the exemption is for sole proprietors, and the Secretary of State's FAQ states that a single-member LLC is required to file an annual list and is therefore required to maintain the State Business License. The only LLC-adjacent exemption is for a natural person whose sole business is renting four or fewer dwelling units — and again that is the person, not an LLC holding the units. If the point of the LLC is to hold one or two Nevada rentals, the $350 a year is part of the price of the liability shield; our rental-property LLC guide weighs it. For everything else, the honest comparison is with Wyoming's $60 and New Mexico's $0, both of which keep members off the public record without a licence fee — the arithmetic is in our best-state analysis.
Our LLC cost calculator computes first-year and five-year totals for all 51 jurisdictions from the same verified dataset as this page — including Nevada — and the full table is downloadable as CSV.