The full Pennsylvania LLC cost table
| Cost | Amount | Required? |
|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania state filing fee | $125 one-time | Yes |
| Recurring state cost | $7/yr — Annual Report (new since 2025) | 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 | $132 as your own agent · $257 with a service | — |
| Five-year total | $160 as your own agent · $785 with a service | — |
Replaced the old decennial report starting January 2025 — pre-2025 sources are stale.
The 2025 change most guides still miss
For decades Pennsylvania was the state where LLCs filed once every ten years. That ended in January 2025: every Pennsylvania LLC now files an Annual Report, due September 30, for $7 — corporations file by June 30. The transition comes with unusual mercy: 2025 and 2026 are a statutory grace period with no penalty for missing the new filing, but starting with 2027 reports, repeated non-filing leads to administrative dissolution about six months after the deadline. This is precisely the kind of regime change that rots the internet's data — our fee-accuracy audit exists because pre-2025 sources describing the decennial report are still ranking — so treat any Pennsylvania guide without a 2025+ date with suspicion.
The rest of the ledger is refreshingly dull
Formation costs $125, mid-pack for a big state. Pennsylvania phased out its capital-stock/franchise tax after 2015, so a standard LLC owes no entity-level state tax; owners pay the state's flat 3.07% personal income tax — the lowest flat rate of any state with an income tax — on pass-through profits. LLCs are exempt from the newspaper-advertising requirement Pennsylvania still imposes on corporations. Add it up: $125 down, $7 a year, 3.07% on profits. Among the ten biggest states, only Ohio ($99, then nothing) and Michigan ($50 + $25/yr) undercut it, making Pennsylvania's quiet 2025 reform one of the better value stories no one is telling.
Our LLC cost calculator computes first-year and five-year totals for all 51 jurisdictions from the same verified dataset as this page — including Pennsylvania — and the full table is downloadable as CSV.