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. Optional expedited service costs extra.
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.
The registered agent is the recurring cost most Pennsylvania fee tables leave out, and it is the one line on this page you actually choose. What a registered agent costs covers how the pricing works; the cheapest option in your state covers where the floor really sits, which is lower than most tables say.